safe to eat turkey ?

[imnukensc]

Never fried one close to that weight (mostly around 15 pounds), but at 3 to 3 1/2 minutes per pound, you'd be frying that thing for at least 3 hours if you leave it whole and the outside would be burned to a crisp before the inside got anywhere near done. I'd break that bad boy down into pieces/parts.

 

[Krazyquilts]

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WOW!!!!! That is one big turkey!!!!! Truly puts to shame our lil 10 lb turkey that we butchered for Thanksgiving! What kind of turkey was he?

 

[RiverviewHen]

He was a BBB. we didn't plan for them to get so big. I still have the biggest one alive. They ate alot.

 

[Krazyquilts]

They ate alot.

That's what I keep reminding my recently-turned-vegan mother when she starts giving me a hard time about "murdering a creature you raised from a baby" - turkeys eat a lot, and a tom's practical contribution to a farm is rather limited if he isn't going to be butchered. I offered to let her "sponsor" Big Turkey and pay for his monthly feed bill, but she didn't want to.

 

[RiverviewHen]

we fried him. it took along time but I was pleasantly surprised with the results. I have a 60 qt pot we used.

 

[RiverviewHen]

I wouldn't do a bird any bigger tho. The skin was starting to get hard vs crispy. I do have a Tom out there that is bigger than the 2 we butchered.