Turkey in a Garbage Can Recipe

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Ingredients
2
Count
Nutrition
2573
Calories
Total time
180
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Select some sort of stake (hammered into the ground) or more robust steel/cast iron/ whatever stand that can hold the turkey sort of like standing on its butt (would be interesting to do this with the beer-butt cooking method) .
  2. Place a (new) stainless steel garbage can over the bird (you could use cast iron, but if using galvanized metal, burn it out first).
  3. Around the sides of the can, bank with 10-12 lbs of charcoal briquettes, (fully grayed up) and cover the top of the can over with a layer or two of burning briquettes.
  4. Allow to cook for 1.5 hours (for a smaller bird) to 2 hours for a larger one, periodically dusting the briquettes and re-banking them. (No peeking obviously!) .
  5. On conclusion of the cooking period, sweep away the remaining embers and ash, and very carefully (anticipating a pretty vicious blast of hot air and steam) and test your bird that the required parameters of 160 in the breast, 180 in the thighs (okay, you can do it 10* less, as it will convect up that much, no point in it being too dry).
  6. If you want, there can be all sorts of tweaks - you can in fact beer butt it, with a large soup can 3/4 full of onion soup/beer/cranberry juice/herbs/spices, pick you own poisons! You can do a rub, you can brine the bird, you can place cake tins of water for a moister cook , you can toss in some wood chips (willow, alder, maple, hickory) that you cause the trash can to be a smoker , you can inject it, you can stuff oils and herbs under the skin, fill it up with garlic cloves, stand it up a bit higher and stick in 6 of corn silks or even hay (using a bit of water with the latter) and get all sorts of different, but wonderful results.
  7. Of course, if, (incredibly!) your bird is seriously underdone you have only to cover it over with the can and stoke up the coals again - .
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 2572.71 Kcal (10771 kJ)
Calories from fat 986.3 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 109.59g 169%
Cholesterol 1306.08mg 435%
Sodium 2031.68mg 85%
Potassium 4063.36mg 86%
Total Carbs 0.37g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0.19g 1%
Protein 400.58g 801%
Iron 18.3mg 102%
Calcium 210.8mg 21%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 140.68 Kcal (589 kJ)
Calories from fat 53.93 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 5.99g 169%
Cholesterol 71.42mg 435%
Sodium 111.09mg 85%
Potassium 222.19mg 86%
Total Carbs 0.02g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0.01g 1%
Protein 21.9g 801%
Iron 1mg 102%
Calcium 11.5mg 21%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 60.5
    Points
  • 65
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium,
  • sugar free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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