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Hey guys,
Is there any special technique to prevent turkey legs from tearing during the cooking process? It really detracts from the overall presentation. You can see what I mean in pic related; the beginning of the drum is just bone. No meat or skin left on as it tore away during the cook.
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>>8307116
thats how its supposed to look, meat shrinks when cooked. brining helps, but not for what you are looking for i think
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Just tell your family to stop being autistic
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Actually I think this looks quite tasty that way.
Guess you could only avoid this by butchering the leg differently.
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It looks better that way, it looks like the meat from Golden Axe.
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>>8307116
Looks good to me and I almost always ridicule. Good job.
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OP here
I'm not saying the visible bone doesn't have its advantages in some dishes. In fact, tomahawk steak is carved specifically for the bone to protrude in such a way by scraping off the excess meat, cartilage and sinew off the bone. I'm not sure it has a place with turkey however, unless it was specifically designed to be cooked that way. Or at least that's my preference when it comes to turkey. My legs split this year and I'm fine with that. Next year I want to try and keep them intact though. Just looking for tips or suggestions on how to do that.
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>>8307222
Cover with foil for most of the raosting prosess.
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>>8307116
I thought that covering them with aluminum foil helped reduce that? Don't know, never really attempted it
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>>8307116
I loved it that way ever since I was a wee lad.
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>>8307116
Oddly enough the French think differently by intentionally removing that bit and just leaving the meat in a technique that is called "frenching".
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The only way you can really do it is by leaving the ankle joint on with skin intact when it's butchered, so if it comes with that cut off the next best thing would be stitching a bit of butcher's string to hold the remaining skin up to the end of the bone.
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it looks fine you autist
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You should have read the "over-engineered turkey" thread a couple of days ago.
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Learn to cut joints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5p1CcGn70
get to work pleb
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