Bird Cookin..........

[Leo Tanner]

Gimme a crock pot slow cooker an whatever is in the fridge/canned food cupboard an somethin goods gonna happen.  Best strogenoff, best chilli, best Irish stew, best pulled pork, anythin that comes outta one of them is hard ta beat.  Pork chops smothered in kraut with taters...ya could cut em with a plastic fork.  Go big an get the 6 quart.  It is one fine invention.


Leo

[Singing Bear]

Been seeing a lot of cake recipes for slowcookers, lately.  I suppose if you can bake a cake in one, a turkey would work as well.  Gonna have to try it one day.  Right now, I cut up a 12 pounder, sprinkle with Hawaiian sea salt and splash half a bottleof liquid smoke all over and let it go on low till the meat easily shreds.  Voile!  Kalua turkey that's darned close to the real imu cooked stuff.  Works with a pork butt too. 

If I ain't lazy, I'll go over to the neighbors and get me some banana and ti leaves to line a large roasting pan with and cook the meat in the oven.  Results are even better with the leaves.   Hmm.  Gonna have to get a larger crockpot and try lining the pot with the leaves and cook the meat that way.  I'm sure it'll turn out great.     And to think I passed up several Nescos I'd seen at garage sales. 

[Cary Kid]

SB, cake recipies.......Why the heck not?
Pineapple Upside Down Cake, might be a good place to start....

I don't see why lining the cooker with leaves, or whatever you wish, wouldn't work out fine with roast meat, fish, or fowl.
There will be other garage sales........

LT, Amen..........

BroTL

When TYQ does do a pot roast in the cooker, I've seen her toss in about 3 cups of what's left of the morning coffee, along with more water. Gots to keep the cooking wet, to be left alone all day....

Slow Cookers, Nesco's, Crock Pots.......Whatever ya'll call it.
They all good to go...........

And thinking about these cookers..........and thinking way back........
I do indeed remember my Mom doing Pork Shoulder, then making BBQ Pork Samitches.........
Her sweet, stringy, melt in your mouth pork, smothered in sauce was the best.....

[Leo Tanner]

I have them sammiches fer ma birthday every year.
     No need fer extra liquid with the pork (bone in) but some folks around here have suggested pouring in a can of root beer.  Haven't tryied it yet I'm kinda fond of the way they turn out the way we been doin it.  Up ta the individual if they want ta dump any of the juice before addin the sauce the last hour.  I usualy leave it in an grab extra napkins.


Leo

[Modoc]

CK,

Here is a trick with the bird that my Ma found one evening when Pa told her that they needed something for a pot-luck at the school (one teacher&one sub) the next day.

She wrapped a frozen bird in foil and set the oven at about 325 and put it in at bed time.  Come morning, she took it out of the oven and the meat just about fell off of the bone and was some of the moistest meat that we have ever had.  We have been doing turkeys this way ever since

[Cary Kid]

Modoc........Your Mom may have begun the best,
Low and slow cookin procedure ever.................

I'll just bet that that bird was primo.............

[El Peludo]

That "Nesco Cooker" looks a lot like the Sunbeam Roaster Oven that my mom had; that sucker was big - she cooked six roasting chickens in it at once one time.  It's a lot different from a crock pot, but similar in process; this thing has a porcelained metal inside pan.  All of the turkeys I can remember from my "pup" days were cooked in that thing; it got taken to wherever we were having thanksgiving dinner.  I wonder if it is still at the old home place; my brother owns the place, now, and I don't know if he kept it.

[Texas Lawdog]

Nesco is just another brand name. I don't know what the correct name is, I call em electric roaster pans.

[Leo Tanner]

Anyone still usin an electric knife?  They used ta be a staple in every home but I haven't seen anyone pull one out in ages.  Seems like folks gave up on em.


Leo

[Russ T Chambers]

Anyone still usin an electric knife?  They used ta be a staple in every home but I haven't seen anyone pull one out in ages.  Seems like folks gave up on em.


Leo

I still use one (two different knives, I don't do Have Knife Will Travel! )  on both Thanksgiving birds (here at home and in Oregon).   

[Ozark Tracker]

That "Nesco Cooker" looks a lot like the Sunbeam Roaster Oven that my mom had; that sucker was big - she cooked six roasting chickens in it at once one time.  It's a lot different from a crock pot, but similar in process; this thing has a porcelained metal inside pan.  All of the turkeys I can remember from my "pup" days were cooked in that thing; it got taken to wherever we were having thanksgiving dinner.  I wonder if it is still at the old home place; my brother owns the place, now, and I don't know if he kept it.

I remember ma Grandma having a Sunbeam Roaster, kept it on a rolling cart in the utility room, Thanksgiving and Christmas were the only times I remember her pulling it in the kitchen and using it. I don't know how old it was but it was in my first memories of Holidays.

[Cary Kid]

OT, ya hit the nail right on the head.............
That's what my Mom had a Sunbeam................
Some dandy eats came outa that device..........Lawd Above...................

I equate that Sunbeam cooker and Pork samitches...there one and the same................

Good stuff Pards, very good stuff indeed..........

Back in the 50's, and early 60's, they were the deal..........

They freed up the real oven to do all the odd jobs, breads, pies and Veggies........
I remembering string beans  with mushroom soup and Dried onion rings..............
That was a heck of a side dish.............
Sliced Taters with onions and butter...........Gadz..........

And all the pies............

Yup, our Mom's used the eletric cooker to free up the big oven for all the rest of the goodies...................

I think creamed corn was my favorite............................With the Pimentos...............

[Leo Tanner]

They freed up the real oven to do all the odd jobs, breads, pies and Veggies........
I remembering string beans  with mushroom soup and Dried onion rings..............
That was a heck of a side dish....

Every year Kid, think we still have some in the fridge.


Leo

[El Peludo]

My mom's Sunbeam Roaster was kept on a rolling metal cart, too; she kept all of the stuff to use with it on the two lower shelves.  As to just how old it was, my earliest memory of it is from about 1947 or '48.  My folks both passed within a few months of one another in 2002, and that thing was still residing on that cart in the kitchen at their place.  After we settled up the estate, my baby bro got the house, and I don't know what he did with it.

[Cary Kid]

I hope your little brother is getting some miles out of your Mom's electric roaster....EP.........

I was in Wally World recently with TYQ. They have at least 10 different sizes and manufactures.......
That's still an item desired by Moms the nation over.............

TYQ's got two of them. A small one what will do up stew for her and I, and a large one.
I think I could get a Crok'r'Gator in the large one......A Pig or Deer easy......

Gator, wow!, ain't had that in a spell.....
I get a tickle out of eating critters what could eat me.........
It just feels just some how..............
Cubed, breaded, deep fried..........with lots of dippin sauces...A young Gator tail is the best.........Nice and tender.......

[Leo Tanner]

Bonus with the crock/gator, ya cut open the belly an might find a perfectly good duck in there...pre tenderized ta boot


Leo