Ever since I heard about this monstrosity I have wanted to try to make one. My therapist says the desire is part of my bipolar upcycle and I should try to focus on something else, but I can’t seem to get over the urge to create one.
Has anyone in here ever tried? Any casualties? Any advice?
Advice? Sure.
Never eat anything with a name that begins t-u-r-d…
I’ve made one.
In the construction: enormously rewarding.
In the consumption: total disappointment.
One fowl melds into another; it all tastes like chickeny stuff. You may as well just cook an enormous chicken.
(I love that you’re discussing turducken with your therapist!)
How is turducken part of bipolar upcycle?
Picture a turducken on a unicycle.
Psst. It *begins *with turkey…
I’ve heard that they can be tricky to cook, too, since so much thickness of meat tends to mean that the outer portions are overcooked before the inner parts are ready.
I have nothing to offer except the comment that, this morning, when discussing the Easter dinner menu, my son suggested I make hamlamuck – a duck stuffed inside a lamb stuffed inside a ham.
I think I’ll pass on that one.
On second thought, I do have something to offer:
While I have not made a turducken, I have made Julia Child’schicken melon recipe. It has much of the turducken’s satisfaction factor of boning a whole bird while keeping the skin intact. But, unlike the turducken, it tastes good.
As far as deboning and molding together three separate birds, well, that sounds ridiculously ambitious to me. But I’ve purchased and cooked an already assembled turducken and a turducken breast, and that I can recommend. It’s pricey, and the meats do meld together, but I thought it did so in a good way. The duck wasn’t greasy; the turkey wasn’t dry, and it was all infused with the flavoring from the Cajun sausage stuffing.
I didn’t notice any uneven cooking, but the prepared stuff really isn’t a bird inside a bird inside a bird. It’s sort of rolled up together, like a Napoleon roast.
This kind of turducken seems easier.
How deviant.
I always thought it just sounded. . .stupid and pointless.
What about a rabbit inside a goat inside a sheep inside an entire cow?
Where’s the pig? Won’t somebody think of the pig?!
OK, rabbit inside goat inside pig inside sheep inside cow.
But it would have to be a pretty small pig.
Maybe one of those cute little potbelly pigs.
I think a combo of turkey, frog, duck and rabbit: A turfuckit.
I made one a few years ago. Here’s what I posted about it at the time.
In fact, I haven’t made one since.
This reminds me of the Spanish stuffing a cow with cochinillo (baby pigs) and roasting the beast for hours on a spit.
for the win…
