"turkey in a hole"

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tpikaart

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Oct 30, 2009
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NorthWest NM
stokin' the hole! The bird goes in at 10:00!

Stuff him w/ some green chile, and garlic, put him in a couple of roasting bags, wrap w/ lots and lots and lots of foil, and toss him in and cover w/ coals and dirt for about...7 hours or so!
Picture of the finished product coming later...
 

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Got to see this!
 
Looks like you will need the fire just to stay warm out there. Good luck with dinner.
 
spiced, wrapped, and in the hole!
 

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Does Ajax help dig up the bird? I bet he would be more then willing.
 
Okay, so we had some problems w/ this...

We put the bird in 2 of those baking sacks, but I sealed them tight--as in airtight. Then we wrapped the foil--perhaps too much and too tight.

After a great hike up the mountain you can see in the first picture, we came back and checked the bird hole at about 3:30.

The flat area in the pic w/ the dog and the 2 shovels looked like a crater and the foil pouch was on top of it--split wide open. A well cooked but sandy turkey breast was about a foot away from it. The shovels weren't even in the pit.

So...she blew up--big time. My sister also had a bird cooking, so all was well at the table. Our main regret is that we didn't get to see it--would've probably been worth the loss of the turkey.


We have done this before. I think that we just didn't have the whole package sealed up quite so tightly.
 
That's hysterical! Good to remember for my own future pit cooking forays. Isn't the "traditional" way to wrap in lots of green leaves? I guess it wouldn't blow itself up then.
 
Would have needed a jackhammer to dig a hole that deep right now here. Ground is froze up solid.
 
You'd better be careful blowing up those birds like that. It won't be long now before turkeys are banned because of terrorism...
 
Better watch out for a visit from peta!
 
Where's the finished pictures??

How was it? Did it get done?

To me the awesome thing about thanksgiving is all the cooking smells in the house fogging up the windows. Putting the bird in a hole in the back yard - seems like you'd miss out on that aspect?

Anybody deep fry their bird? Being southern, everything's better fried!
 
Guys in Maine do trash can turkeys. They use a clean metal grease barrel, place the turkey on some kind of stand, place the barrel over it, build a fire around the barrel, throw coals on top of the barrel and wait. Not sure how long it takes, I do mine on a kettle grill :lol:
 
basswidow said:
Where's the finished pictures??

How was it? Did it get done?

To me the awesome thing about thanksgiving is all the cooking smells in the house fogging up the windows. Putting the bird in a hole in the back yard - seems like you'd miss out on that aspect?

Anybody deep fry their bird? Being southern, everything's better fried!

I like the smell of turkey cooking as well. Besides, with some of these exotic ways of cooking turkeys, one misses the best part - gravy!!
 
well, gravy should be one of the best aspects of the "bird in a hole"!
The last time we did it, the roasting bag kept all of the juices and the
gravy was great.

This year's gravy was probably aerosolized and spread around the neighborhood...
 
I saw them cook some meat using that method on one of those food shows, I didnt pay close attention because I didnt figure to ever try it, would have loved to see the after pictures. You sure Ajax didnt have a paw in that?
 
Great story, it's hilarious. I've heard of exploding potatoes before, but blowing up the bird is a first! That's a spectacular last flight for that poor bird.
 
Scaled down the hole size a bit, got some elm and oak burning at about 7:30 this a.m., probably put the bird in at about 10.
The key, we think!, will be to NOT seal up the bird quite so tight. Last year I used 2 baking bags and actually tied each one
shut w/ very little air, and then used lots and lots of foil to create the bird-bomb. We did this a couple years ago and it
worked great, so...fingers crossed!
 

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Got 'er stuffed and wrapped and buried!...just in time for kick-off. Go Lions!
 

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