"Garbage can turkey", or "How to justify the minimum 2 hour requirement of OPUS"


Take 1 14# turkey. Wash. The turkey that is. Rub turkey down with 4 tablespoons of mustard powder. Place turkey in garbage bag. Pour 1 12 oz. can of Miller beer over bird. Shake. Stick in fridge overnight.

Wake up next day. You'll need a piece of wood such as a broom stick handle about 18" long. Drive in ground. Make 3 aluminum foil balls about the size of a softball. Place on ground around the stick. Find a small metal garbage can. Fill the lid with coals and light. When they're ready, place turkey on the stick neck down, you may want to tie his wings up to his body with a piece of wire, invert garbage can and place on ground over turkey, place coals around the garbage can and on top of the garbage can. Go do something for 2 hours, then that bird is ready to eat. Enjoy.

Dangerous Dave

Just what are you doing up this early in the morning?
Dan

Why cooking a garbage can turkey, of course!

And watching it rain for the first time in like 50 something days! I was starting to think that if my luck got any better It'd be better than Vegas around here!

;)

Dangeorus Dave
Modified By Dave Huff on 11/13/2005 at 11:45 AM

Make 3 aluminum foil balls about the size of a softball. Place on ground around the stick.

Is this some sort of religious thing, or do the foil balls serve a practical function in the process? The description is a little vague on the matter.

The 3 aluminum foil balls keep your bird from being "proven in the dirt"!

Now! Take THAT John Francis!


Dangerous Dave

I was wondering about the footballs, also.
Dave, you make me proud to be a Mississippian.

Make 'em the size of softballs, not footballs! It would require some extensive testing by the likes of Stumpwater R&D and Associates, but I really think the aluminum foil balls serve 2 purposes:

1) As a groundplane for the bird so it don't hit the dirt, and

B) As a multipath rejector for the stake supporting the bird. Note, the stake does get a bit charred in the cooking process. This is something I wouldn't skimp on, such as a 1"X1" lathe. That aint gonna do it. I'd probably even soak the broom stick handle in water overnight as well.

Man, so much GPS relevant content here.

Dangerous Dave

What did you rinex the bird in first?

I missed that part.

Thanks.

Deral

1~12 oz. can of Miller beer. Or Miller Lite for those counting the calories.

Stumpwater Dark and a fire extinguisher is standard equipment.

Dangerous Dave
Modified By Dave Huff on 11/13/2005 at 12:52 PM

I'll have the title of "Most Frequent Poster for the Month of November" by the time this (first) bird is done!

Oh! The agony of that!

Dangerous Dave
Y'all keep it on the safe side.

I'm a bit pedestrian.

I have the grill fired up.

I did place the 'very nice' bacon wrapped bits of cow in a nice geometric pattern.

I used the corn, wrapped in foil to add some redundancy.

And a few of them foil covered potatoes down in the coals.

The wind is a steady 30 mph or more today.

Lighting the charcoal was quite fun. (putting on burn ointment as I type).


I rinexed the steaks in special blend of peppers, pepper and Bud Light.

Yes..I'm counting the calories so I have to be carefull.

Deral
I'm only slightly dangerous...Mostly to myself.


Modified By Deral Paulk on 11/13/2005 at 1:22 PM

I wish we were getting some rain, it is very dry.
Dan

Dang, and I been out shooting them darned orange mud frisbee pigeons. I bring home grocery sacks full of 'em, and can't get Wanda to cook 'em up at all.

Maybe if we had a pizza pan ground plane, some orange pvc pipe and some bottom of the fermenter trub from a bacterial infected batch of "The Bull", we might make it as palatable as real turkey..... yeeeccchhhh

I have a theory about turkey, et al...

If God had intended us to eat 'em, he wouldn't have called 'em "foul"

:-)

and to make this post legit, I completed 13+ acres of S&G topo at minimum 50 foot grid points (had lots of curbing and several drain swales to detail as well) in a bit over 5 hours. Shawn didn't finish his 13+ acres, but had a bit more detail. The old PM2's with the old version 2.?? firmware(what John likes, and we reverted to) really smokes.

pss Dave, we're actually making use of the robotic stuff you did at our industrial subdivision. You will be getting a bit of a bonus in the mail :-)

Hey JD,

Give 'til it hurts. Then when it hurts, move the mayo and the bottle of Tabasco over just a bit and finally grab that last jar of candied jalepenos in the back of the fridge!

;)

Dangerous Dave
Modified By Dave Huff on 11/14/2005 at 1:34 PM

forget my "brag" above....

both rover sessions (each 5 hours) turned out to be total crap.

we're going back to do conventional at daylight tomorrow. very disappointing results. Saturday AND today wasted.

Live and learn

What do you think happened? You gonna be up late tonight? 11 ish?

Dangerous Dave