I don’t know how it happened, but I forgot today was Thanksgiving. Which means that I started the day with a turkey fresh from the freezer.<\/p>\n
It’s totally possible to cook a turkey from frozen: you cook it for time-and-a-half, and you really want to have a pan big enough to deal with the extra melt juice.<\/p>\n
I did not have a big enough pan. But I thought I could fake it with tinfoil walls.<\/p>\n
It refused to be faked.<\/p>\n
Oil drizzled on the oven bottom, which means it filled up with smoke.<\/p>\n
No big. I shut the oven off, took the turkey out, wiped the bottom, and turned the oven back on.<\/p>\n
It smoked like crazy.<\/p>\n
I cleaned again. Still smoked. Like 4 times over an hour.<\/p>\n
I don’t see any leftover spilled oil, but it won’t stop smoking \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
I’m not even sure my turkey was done cooking. All the temperature shenanigans leave some questions unanswered. I just couldn’t handle dealing with all the smoke and gross and I smell like a fry cook.<\/p>\n
I let the turkey rest–so all the juices didn’t immediately escape–cut off a bunch and threw it in a pan. I made gravy in another pan, then poured it on the turkey and heated it through.<\/p>\n
The turkey with the gravy was tender and delicious and great with potatoes, so whatever. Dinner saved.<\/p>\n
I just have a whole half a turkey left that’s a big ol’ question mark on the cooked meter. Ugh.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness for soup, that’s all I know. I can’t even make a turkey pot pie with my oven smoking like it is.<\/p>\n
First world problems, yo.<\/p>\n
Hope the rest of you had a good time. Even if you don’t celebrate the day as anything other than a food day–or maybe not even that–I wish you well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"