Hey, Blast, in all seriousness… have you ever done this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8iRYbnAb0

I know someone who could have done something like that.

That was so cool!

Hmmm, I wonder if I could do a variation of a garbage can turkey using thermite? When I do a fried turkey it takes 3 minutes per pound at 350F to get the interior of the turkey to 180F...iron oxide based thermite burns at around 4500F...

It could just be the brandy talking, but I think it might actually be possible to ultra-fast cook an edible turkey this way. I'm picturing two thermite piles, a medium one under the large opening of the suspended turkey and then a big ring around the outside diameter of the bird. This way heat would both enter the cavity and flow across the outer skin of the bird...

It all depends on the heat transfer capapbilities of raw turkey. Well, that and for DW to be out of town on Thanksgiving...

-Blast, who probably won't get anything down tomorrow at work as he tries to determine the heat capacity of a turkey.

Uhmm... Blast, no. This is a bad idea.

At the very least, get it on video.

NO, BLAST! Sit! Stay! Good boy!

First off, you don't cook a turkey at 500F, you cook it at a much more moderate 350F, if you expect it to be edible.

Secondly, you don't contaminate it with aluminum. Aluminum is not a seasoning!

Sheesh!



KUOVONNE..........!!!

Sue

Why I love the internet:

Physics of Cooking a Turkey

Estimation of Energy Use of Turkey Rolls in a Convection Oven

Heat Capacity of a Chicken

Cheap source of powdered aluminum

Now I just need to send DW shopping or something...

-Blast

Blast,
Just how fast can you light charcoal in a Weber Kettle??? I know Liquid Oxygen has been used before.........

Calling the fire department now.
Stu

There is going to be a star in the southeast.

No, not over Bethlehem.

That's no star, that's a mushroom cloud! Just picture the kid from the opening of Jericho tv show!