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Tuesday, November 22. 2016

Meat injectors: A re-post for Thanksgiving

We used some of those plastic Cajun Classic meat injectors (image on right) to inject our birds (ducks, turkeys, pheasants, etc): Deep Fry Turkey Day with Red-neck Yankees, aka Les Tres Riche Heures du Bird Dog.


Those plastic injectors are worthless crap. The herbs and spices jam up the injector holes, and the whole thing falls apart after a few birds.


We then made do with a large-apertured medical syringe which one of our medical friends had (which I hope was clean), but this is really the cooking tool that is needed: the stainless steel Bayou Classic with one needle for herb mixtures and another for marinade (photo below).


Many folks like to inject a turkey with sherry or cider.


I bought a couple of those for my cooking buddies. (Update: I did, and got one for myself too. Would be scary to see a nurse approaching you with one of these.)


This year, I am going to inject those big SOBs with a warmed mix of sherry, butter, honey, and herbs under the skin and deep into the meat. That can not be bad. The Indians did it that way, didn't they? Of course they did - when they weren't busy scalping, raping, and torturing their neighboring tribes.


Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 13:07 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Ya didn't sniff it, first?

Yikes!
#1 Leag on 2009-02-14 14:35 (Reply)
Haha. Actually, it was a new one, in the package. It's the big one they use to inject drugs directly into the heart of a coding person.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2009-02-15 07:12 (Reply)
the plastic one looks like the one my Dad gave me for oiling up things like metal parts, very useful for that
#2 grant1863 on 2009-02-15 11:09 (Reply)
Why would you do all that to a turkey? If you do not like the taste of turkey why the hell are you cooking and eating one.

Buy something you like and prepare it in your preferred manner. If you have to doctor it up that much there is something wrong with your culinary receptors or what ever it is that indicates good taste.

If your taste buds are that screwed up I doubt you will ever enjoy a real home cooked or style meal.
#3 Bob Devine on 2010-11-18 02:24 (Reply)
It's a Cajun thing.
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2010-11-18 06:52 (Reply)
"The Indian's did it that way, didn't they?" Sure. Except, of course, for the sherry. And no cows & no bees yet, so no honey or butter. No cool stainless steel Cajun injectors, because no Cajuns yet. Herbs, though. They had those.
#3.1.1 maya on 2016-11-22 15:13 (Reply)
These injectors look really scary, like old school East Bloc dentistry implements.

Seems to me there's a market for a .410 shotgun shell that contains a blend of herbs & spices.
#4 Jim on 2010-11-18 07:02 (Reply)
"...aka Les Tres Riche Heures du Bird Dog."

Psst... it's Les Trรจs Riches Heures.

I can take the absence of the accent grave but that s just has to be there.
#5 JJM on 2016-11-22 13:29 (Reply)
You are correct. Many years since my French.
#5.1 Bird Dog on 2016-11-22 17:10 (Reply)
Sherlock Holmes wants his cocaine syringe back.
#6 Will Bithers on 2016-11-22 16:40 (Reply)
I've used some thing similar to puncture a hole in a dairy
cow when she couldn't pass gas.
#7 Fjord on 2016-11-22 20:01 (Reply)
Bird injection is the way to go, despite ascetic objections to the contrary.

My "Bayou classic" from Ebay leaked like a basket; it's a good plan to remove the end cap from the cylinder using Vise-grips. Replace cap with a light coat of epoxy on the threads.

Happy Thanksgiving and MAGA to all!
#8 Mike in Montreal on 2016-11-23 23:55 (Reply)

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