The Christmas 2013 thread

[RIP - VTEnviro]

They hide the best trees five miles from the road.

They hide all trees 5 miles from the road here.

 

[ElCid03]

I think I want to fry a turkey for Christmas this year.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

THAW IT FIRST! I don't want to be investigating the fire that burned your house down next February.

 

[engineergurl]

I think I want to fry a turkey for Christmas this year.

We do fried turkey for Thanksgiving. I didn't do one the year my husband was deployed, and I think there was one other year in the last 10 that we didn't... but oh I love me some fried turkey.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I think I want to fry a turkey for Christmas this year.

Someone dial 91 and have your finger hovering over the one.

 

[cement]

It's sad that my kids all don't believe I Santa anymore but I hope they have fun pulling one out if the Mtn Clark Griswolds style.... Got to see about getting that tag...

here's the link: http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gjAwhwtDDw9_AI8zPyhQoYAOUjMeXDfODy-HWHg-zDrx8kb4ADOBro-3nk56bqF-RGGGSZOCoCAPi8eX8!/dl3/d3/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnZ3LzZfMjAwMDAwMDBBODBPSEhWTjJNMDAwMDAwMDA!/?navtype=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&cid=stelprdb5163516&navid=160000000000000&pnavid=null&ss=110210&position=Not%20Yet%20Determined.Html&ttype=detail&pname=Arapaho

the trees are a little scrawny but it's a nice family adventure.

 

[csb]

THAW IT FIRST! I don't want to be investigating the fire that burned your house down next February.

Measure out where the oil needs to be by dunking the frozen bird in water in the pan first. That means you don't fill it full of oil and then drop it in, making it overflow. Volume displacement eludes even the smartest people when turkey is involved.

 

[engineergurl]

^^ we have sharpie lines all over ours from different years depending on the size of the bird...

I should add... a metal coat hanger will not serve the purpose of lowering and raising the turkey gently in and out of the oil if the bird is 20 lbs.

 

[csb]

 

[MA_PE]

My wife's parents are "snow birds" that head to Florida at the beginning of October. Therefore, we had "fake Thanksgiving" yesterday with a big turkey dinner and all the fixings.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

We're thinking of doing a "white trash" thanksgiving this year. Deep-fried everything. Only problem: I have never deep-fried anything. Don't even have a frier...

 

[knight1fox3]

We're thinking of doing a "white trash" thanksgiving this year. Deep-fried everything. Only problem: I have never deep-fried anything. Don't even have a frier...

The heck with preparing everything yourself. Have it delivered instead. :thumbs:

 

[csb]

We're thinking of doing a "white trash" thanksgiving this year. Deep-fried everything. Only problem: I have never deep-fried anything. Don't even have a frier...

We can lend you our FryDaddy. Won't fit a turkey...you'll have to cut it up into nuggets.

Christmas dinner one year was a prepared meal from Albertson's...reheat and eat. It was really good.

 

[engineergurl]

I can use the turkey fryer in the summer for a low country boil... actually, our turkey fryer is just a metal stand with a burner and a propane hose and a very big pot with a lid and a thermometer

 

[csb]

^ I think that's what everyone's turkey fryer is...anything else would be too classy for such an event.

 

[engineergurl]

we upgraded and got some hooks for ours... we be fancy like that

 

[FLBuff PE]

Alton Brown did a fried turkey segment on Good Eats one year. He way over did it, with having an A-frame to support and lower the bird, etc. I thought it was cool, being an engineer an all.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

^^^ I could use my survey tri-pod...

 

[engineergurl]

I think the worst thing we ever did was actually fry it in the garage one year. When you have company there and a downpour starts you have to get the bird cooked somehow and the oven isn't going to work that fast...

 

[envirotex]

It's sad that my kids all don't believe I Santa anymore but I hope they have fun pulling one out if the Mtn Clark Griswolds style.... Got to see about getting that tag...

Wait...are you saying there's no Santa Claus?