Inspired by the Turbaconducken, my first attempt at a bacon-wrapped turkey.
Ready to bake
The cooked bird
Another hero shot
Lessons learned: thicker bacon, lower temp (baked this at 325), better covering of the bird to preserve moisture (or add liquid to oven). Overall, not a bad first attempt; even J– liked it (or so she says).
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ohhh that looks so good. Will have to try that with the turkey work just gave me.
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That's where this bird came from (well, J–'s work; although the humor factor in the U giving out 60,000 turkeys seems high). Spend the money on good, thick bacon.. the stuff I used was way to thin and didn't survive the long baking very well.It was pretty good though. How could it now be? Bacon!
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How thick of bacon did you use? We are in the process of getting eveything to cook one up in the next bit. I will have the mother in law custom cut bacon at the meat locker when she is at work sometime soon.
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I bought standard thickness (I wanna say Oscar Meyer, but could have been Thornapple or something like that). Since you have access to a slicer, I'd go pretty thick, almost side pork thickness. It cooks down a lot; the standard thickness stuff was paper-thin when our turkey was done.
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