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[joebabyny]

another thing Joe.
I was remiss in not mentioning how nice and sweet your Mom is. We had a nice talk and she insisted I take a 'extra meatball'.

Thanks SJ. My parents are pretty fantastic.

[joebabyny]

Joe, are you deep frying turkeys for Thanksgiving?

Ive heard thats the only way to cook em.

Fried is a great way to cook them, but the issue is we have limited time. We will be making probably at least 5 20-25lb birds. Wouldn't really have the time to do them in batches when you figure in the setup time and oil heating time. So that means having at least 5 turkey fryers. That also means gallons and gallons of boiling oil in those 5 setups in a parking lot surrounded by people drinking and tossing footballs. Frying 1 turkey is manageable, doing 5 or more not as much.
My parents house actually has a full commercial kitchen with real deal restaurant Vulcan ovens in the basement, plus an oven in the regular kitchen. I can cook 2 birds in each oven in the basement plus 1 in the oven upstairs no problem all at the same time. I then pull them out at slightly less temp then finished and toss them into a marine cooler. They come out of that cooler perfect. That was the gameplan last Tday game and it worked great.

[joebabyny]

Smoked > deep fried.

Agreed.