Here are the instructions for the Turkey in a Garbage can.
1-10 gal new galvanized steel can (before first use, burn some charcoal in bottom of can)
20 pounds KINGSFORD match light (Kingsford just works the best)
2 foot long 5/8” wooden dowel
1 bunt cake pan
1 roll heavy duty tin foil (37.5 square foot)
1 Turkey (any size) IÂ’ve cooked a 35 pounder this way!!!!
*see step 10 to figure time needed to cook
1 cup chicken broth (I normally use white wine) Canei works good, so does beer
Butter
Seasonings (Chili powder, garlic powder, salt, black pepper, onion powder, parsley, sage, thyme, rosemary) {I use all these at one time, but poultry seasoning works good also}
1- pair new heavy work gloves
STEPS
1. Pile all coals and light. Coals will be ready in about 35-40 mins. Not ALL coals need to be turned to gray when ready.
   2. While coals are prepping, prep the Turkey by rinsing. Pat dry with paper towel. Tie legs and wings like you normally would. Rub bird with butter and season with your choice.
   3. Select the area to cook bird. Begin by pounding the dowel into ground until approx 1 foot remains above ground. The key here is when the bird is added to the dowel, it will not be touching the top of the garbage can.
   4. Arrange 3 pieces of tin foil at 6-7 feet long into a star ( * ) shape with the dowel at the center. Place bunt cake pan over the dowel and down to the foil. See pict.
   5. Make a ball of foil and secure it to the top of the dowel with a sheet of foil.
   6. Add your chicken broth (or other liquid) to the bunt cake pan. I usually add the turkey gizzards including the neck, directly into the cake pan.
   7. Place bird on top of dowel, the foil ball will support the bird.
   8. Place the garbage can over the bird and shovel coals all the way around the can, including some on top of the can as well.
   9. Wrap the tin foil that is extending beyond the edge of the can, up over the top to encase the coals and garbage can.
  10. As soon as you are done with step 9, look at your watch and figure 6 mins per pound. On very cold days I add 1 mins per pound. NEVER check to see if bird is done……….it WILL be!!!
  11. Carefully remove tin foil and shovel back coals. Using gloves lift can and place to side. Have a platter ready to place bird on. Lift the bird off the dowel. Let rest 20 mins before carving. During this rest time, carefully remove bunt pan, strain into sauce pan, and thicken to make the gravy. Pile coals back up and allow to burn down. I add the ash to my garden, and last Thanksgiving, the small cousins roasted marshmallows after dinner.
  12. Remember: Always allow some time for weather conditions---Rain is HORRIBLE!! Snow isn’t so bad, but affects cooking time. I developed the tin foil encasement on a windy day…I’ve also added some fresh coals right before wrapping the foil when I did the 35 pounder. But more importantly…..Chart your time table before you even begin the whole process….I actually write it to the minute…Example:
15 pounderÂ….dinner at 3 pm
12:15 lite coals
12:50 put bird on
1:00 pm Start cooking time
2:30 start unwrapping
2:40 Let bird rest
3:00 present bird and carve at table (or adjust times to allow carving before bringing to table)
People will be amazed when they see this worksÂ…itÂ’s great to see the look on the skeptics face before, after, and during the eating!!!!!
I went to my sisters yesterday morning to give her christmas tree a fresh cut with the powersaw. I helped her raise it into the stand and I told her to reach through the branches and adjust the tree to make it straight. As she did that I said 'and watch out for the bird'! (jokingly of course). She said 'is there really a bird in my tree?' - I laugh and said 'no', At that moment, right when we were talking about it, we heard a squeek noise and she says 'did you hear that?' and I say 'yeah, but I think it was the tv' (since the tv was right next to the tree).
she says 'I wonder if thats ever happened to anyone, like a bird or a squirrel'. I say 'sure it has, where do you think Disneys chipmunks Christmas was based on' .... (she's thinking Alvin, Simon, Theodore...I'm thinking chip and dale disney chipmunks in the tree that Mickey Mouse brought home and pluto attacks the tree - I love that episode)
Later in the day I get a call from her and she says 'you won't believe it, remember that noise that we thought was a bird noise when we talked about the bird in the tree?' well yeah .... she says, 'there was a bat in the wall right next to the tree!!!'
what coincidence that the noise happened right when we talked about a bird in the tree....
ok , today, flukely, I come across this in the news:
Updated:2006-12-05 16:35:32
Woman Finds Bat Living in Christmas Tree
AP
NIPOMO, Calif. (Dec. 5)
- Sheila Kearns had a Christmas tree delivered to her home on Sunday. She says she thought she'd been pricked by pine needles when she reached into the tree while decorating it. But the next morning, she found a bat hanging upside down in her home.
It turns out that the Christmas tree farm Kearns bought from keeps bats around for pest control and that one unwittingly hitched a ride to her home.
Animal control officials picked up the bat, which tested negative for rabies.
Kearns got a tetanus shot and some antibiotics, but says she's not fazed. She says she'll keep buying her trees from the same farm.
We had to match the paint code on the tips of the metal (green metal painted tip with green hole on an 8 foot long green painted wooden pole) (white metal painted tip with white paint on hole) .... usually all the red were the short that went near the top, green were all the middle and white bigger went on the lowest part of the tree.
we had ones like that as a kid. i think my parents still do where you have to put each row of branches in the thing.
ours is nice. grab it by the top. give it a good shake. and everything falls into place. repeat with the middle section and then dump in the top. can't get easier than that.
although next year, i think we're going to work a little differently with the lights we add to the pre-lit sucker.
he looks forward to seeing you guy's again :smile: going to be a very busy month now, the first 2 gigs just came out of the blue, the guy just called him on monday, he wanted them to do the 15th and the 16th but the guy's decided on just the saturday show. and then ther's all the x-mas crap to deal with, I can't wait till x-mas is over! :chagrin:
One of my friends down the street had a tree like that but we always had fresh trees. We would buy them at the St. Paul Market which was somewhere near where Embassy Suites is now I think. I could be wrong. But there was a whole block of covered stalls with fresh trees to walk through.
I was also envious of the oleo that my friend's family had. They didn't sell colored margarine then and it came in a plastic bag with a color capsule that you broke and then squeezed until the white oleo turned yellow. My parents put the kibosh on that too. But I can understand that. I still use butter.
I not only remember those bottle brush artificial trees, we still have one that we put on a table on the back porch each year. Lit up, it isn't so bad.
We bought that 4 foot tree from Target the first year we were married. Cost us all of $10.89. It keeps going and going.
We have a much nicer tree now for our living room, but there is something special about plugging those colored bottle-brush ends into that wooden pole each year.
Hey OTiS, what happened with Comcast last night? The same type of thing happens to me about once every week late at night when watching my DVR. I always need to unplug the DVR then reset it. Then it takes another 6 hours to update itself.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Dec. 9) -- Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the predawn skies. About 45 minutes before dawn on Sunday those three planets will be so close that the average person's thumb can obscure all three from view.
They will be almost as close together on Saturday and Monday, but Sunday they will be within one degree of each other in the sky. Three planets haven't been that close since 1925, said Miami Space Transit Planetarium director Jack Horkheimer.
And it won't happen again until 2053, he said.
"Jupiter will be very bright and it will look like it has two bright lights next to it, and they won't twinkle because they're planets," said Horkheimer, host of the television show "Star Gazer. "This is the kind of an event that turns young children into Carl Sagans."
The planets are actually hundreds of millions of miles apart, but the way the planets orbit the sun make it appear they are neighbors in the east-southeastern skies. They'll be visible in most parts of the world - in the Western Hemisphere, as far south as Buenos Aires and as far north as Juneau, Alaska, Horkheimer said.
The experts differ on just how to look at the planets. Horkheimer said naked-eye viewing is fine, but binoculars or a telescope are even better.
But if you are going to use a telescope, be careful because the planets are so close to where the sun will soon rise, if you linger you might gaze at the sun through the telescope and damage your eyesight, said Michelle Nichols, master educator at Chicago's Adler Planetarium.
Ed Krupp, director of Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory, cautioned it will be hard to see the event "with an unaided eye, particularly in an area that is highly urbanized."
The way to find the planets, which will be low on the east-southeast horizon, is to hold your arm straight out, with your hand in a fist and the pinky at the bottom. Halfway up your fist is how high the planets will appear above the horizon, Nichols said.
Jupiter will be white, Mercury pinkish and Mars butterscotch-colored.
"It is a lovely demonstration of the celestial ballet that goes on around us, day after day, year after year, millennium after millennium," said Horkheimer. "When I look at something like this, I realize that all the powers on Earth, all the emperors, all the money, cannot change it one iota. We are observers, but the wonderful part of that is that we are the only species on this planet that can observe it and understand it."
In ancient times, people thought the close groupings of planets had deep meaning, said Krupp. Now, he said, "it's absolutely something fun to look for."
"It is a lovely demonstration of the celestial ballet that goes on around us, day after day, year after year, millennium after millennium," said Horkheimer. "When I look at something like this, I realize that all the powers on Earth, all the emperors, all the money, cannot change it one iota. We are observers, but the wonderful part of that is that we are the only species on this planet that can observe it and understand it."
I'm having trouble down loading a new avatar. I've been trying to replace my hippie self with a holiday image and I get a message saying that my image has to be a jpeg or gif and they are.
I went along with my kids and grandchildren a couple of years ago and pretty much wrapped up my Christmas shopping while they were in line for Santa. I'd check to see how far they were and then go back out shopping. Time well spent for me! Not so much for them.
Santa is going to be at Anchor Bank on the 21st from 3:30 until 5:30. And you get a free picture with Santa. Not very good working family friendly hours though.
Thanks, mrmikey. I've gotten that message before when I've picked one too large. These aren't too large, but for some reason this site is saying they aren't jpeg of gif and they are. I can't even repost one I've used previously.
My daughter tried to help me with it yesterday and she's pretty good about this kind of stuff. So I hope everyone likes my hippie self. She might be around for a while. :chagrin:
Shoot! I think this is the last year for Ali anyway. Anybody else have suggestions on when to stop seeing Santa?
We were playing Loaded Questions Saturday night and the question was What is the worst place to be stuck waiting? There were answers like 'on hold', 'jail', 'traffic lights', 'to use the restroom' etc. But then Ali squeaked out 'waiting for Santa' and everyone agreed whole hardily.
1-10 gal new galvanized steel can (before first use, burn some charcoal in bottom of can)
20 pounds KINGSFORD match light (Kingsford just works the best)
2 foot long 5/8” wooden dowel
1 bunt cake pan
1 roll heavy duty tin foil (37.5 square foot)
1 Turkey (any size) IÂ’ve cooked a 35 pounder this way!!!!
*see step 10 to figure time needed to cook
1 cup chicken broth (I normally use white wine) Canei works good, so does beer
Butter
Seasonings (Chili powder, garlic powder, salt, black pepper, onion powder, parsley, sage, thyme, rosemary) {I use all these at one time, but poultry seasoning works good also}
1- pair new heavy work gloves
STEPS
1. Pile all coals and light. Coals will be ready in about 35-40 mins. Not ALL coals need to be turned to gray when ready.
   2. While coals are prepping, prep the Turkey by rinsing. Pat dry with paper towel. Tie legs and wings like you normally would. Rub bird with butter and season with your choice.
   3. Select the area to cook bird. Begin by pounding the dowel into ground until approx 1 foot remains above ground. The key here is when the bird is added to the dowel, it will not be touching the top of the garbage can.
   4. Arrange 3 pieces of tin foil at 6-7 feet long into a star ( * ) shape with the dowel at the center. Place bunt cake pan over the dowel and down to the foil. See pict.
   5. Make a ball of foil and secure it to the top of the dowel with a sheet of foil.
   6. Add your chicken broth (or other liquid) to the bunt cake pan. I usually add the turkey gizzards including the neck, directly into the cake pan.
   7. Place bird on top of dowel, the foil ball will support the bird.
   8. Place the garbage can over the bird and shovel coals all the way around the can, including some on top of the can as well.
   9. Wrap the tin foil that is extending beyond the edge of the can, up over the top to encase the coals and garbage can.
  10. As soon as you are done with step 9, look at your watch and figure 6 mins per pound. On very cold days I add 1 mins per pound. NEVER check to see if bird is done……….it WILL be!!!
  11. Carefully remove tin foil and shovel back coals. Using gloves lift can and place to side. Have a platter ready to place bird on. Lift the bird off the dowel. Let rest 20 mins before carving. During this rest time, carefully remove bunt pan, strain into sauce pan, and thicken to make the gravy. Pile coals back up and allow to burn down. I add the ash to my garden, and last Thanksgiving, the small cousins roasted marshmallows after dinner.
  12. Remember: Always allow some time for weather conditions---Rain is HORRIBLE!! Snow isn’t so bad, but affects cooking time. I developed the tin foil encasement on a windy day…I’ve also added some fresh coals right before wrapping the foil when I did the 35 pounder. But more importantly…..Chart your time table before you even begin the whole process….I actually write it to the minute…Example:
15 pounderÂ….dinner at 3 pm
12:15 lite coals
12:50 put bird on
1:00 pm Start cooking time
2:30 start unwrapping
2:40 Let bird rest
3:00 present bird and carve at table (or adjust times to allow carving before bringing to table)
People will be amazed when they see this worksÂ…itÂ’s great to see the look on the skeptics face before, after, and during the eating!!!!!
i was email'd this...i think i need to try it.
Example: "old" and "new".
..YESTERDAY...CARIBOU HAD A QUESTION..
I KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS THE CORRECT ANSWER.
WHAT IS THE ONLY WORD THAT IS AN ANTONYM TO ITSELF.
NOW...I'M CONFUSED....
I DON'T GET IT...
QUEEN = DRAG QUEEN (MALE)
QUEEN = FEMALE...
GEEZ....ITS A DIME...WHY DO I DRIVE MYSLF NUTZ...
AND WHY DOES CARIBOU HAVE SUCH HARD QUESTIONS...
Galvanized steel is nasty stuff. Learned back in welding class that the zinc coating in vapor form (when it's heated to a certain temp) is harmful.
I went to my sisters yesterday morning to give her christmas tree a fresh cut with the powersaw. I helped her raise it into the stand and I told her to reach through the branches and adjust the tree to make it straight. As she did that I said 'and watch out for the bird'! (jokingly of course). She said 'is there really a bird in my tree?' - I laugh and said 'no', At that moment, right when we were talking about it, we heard a squeek noise and she says 'did you hear that?' and I say 'yeah, but I think it was the tv' (since the tv was right next to the tree).
she says 'I wonder if thats ever happened to anyone, like a bird or a squirrel'. I say 'sure it has, where do you think Disneys chipmunks Christmas was based on' .... (she's thinking Alvin, Simon, Theodore...I'm thinking chip and dale disney chipmunks in the tree that Mickey Mouse brought home and pluto attacks the tree - I love that episode)
Later in the day I get a call from her and she says 'you won't believe it, remember that noise that we thought was a bird noise when we talked about the bird in the tree?' well yeah .... she says, 'there was a bat in the wall right next to the tree!!!'
what coincidence that the noise happened right when we talked about a bird in the tree....
ok , today, flukely, I come across this in the news:
Updated:2006-12-05 16:35:32
Woman Finds Bat Living in Christmas Tree
AP
NIPOMO, Calif. (Dec. 5)
- Sheila Kearns had a Christmas tree delivered to her home on Sunday. She says she thought she'd been pricked by pine needles when she reached into the tree while decorating it. But the next morning, she found a bat hanging upside down in her home.
It turns out that the Christmas tree farm Kearns bought from keeps bats around for pest control and that one unwittingly hitched a ride to her home.
Animal control officials picked up the bat, which tested negative for rabies.
Kearns got a tetanus shot and some antibiotics, but says she's not fazed. She says she'll keep buying her trees from the same farm.
FYI: picture of me with power tool to follow soon
artificial tree priceless moment for me:
putting together grandmas bottle brush tree.
We had to match the paint code on the tips of the metal (green metal painted tip with green hole on an 8 foot long green painted wooden pole) (white metal painted tip with white paint on hole) .... usually all the red were the short that went near the top, green were all the middle and white bigger went on the lowest part of the tree.
remember those OT? :wink:
ours is nice. grab it by the top. give it a good shake. and everything falls into place. repeat with the middle section and then dump in the top. can't get easier than that.
although next year, i think we're going to work a little differently with the lights we add to the pre-lit sucker.
this don't surprise me
picture of me with power tool to follow soon
can't wait for that one after seeing video in THX's thread.
So did your sis ever get the bats out of her bellfree?
loandenied
December, 9 2006 at Trackside Bar & Grill
hwy 107, Braham, Minnesota 55030
Cost: n/a
we would love to see all our friends and family. thank you all for all the support.
December, 16 2006 at Trackside Bar & Grill
hwy 107, Braham, Minnesota 55030
Cost: n/a
12/31/2006 09:00 PM - JJ's Bowl & Lounge
Old hwy 61 & Ash st., North Branch, Minnesota - n/a
but I definately want to try and make the new-years show...
that last one, was a great time :grin:
turns out the bat is still in the wall
she flashed a flashlight on him and he is flapping and squeekin - poor guy
I was also envious of the oleo that my friend's family had. They didn't sell colored margarine then and it came in a plastic bag with a color capsule that you broke and then squeezed until the white oleo turned yellow. My parents put the kibosh on that too. But I can understand that. I still use butter.
that was where the original St. Paul Farmers Market was located before it moved to Lowertown.
I have pics at work - very cool St. Paul trivia
I already knew you had super powers
the cable went to ESA? and weather channel then back to War of the Worlds
We bought that 4 foot tree from Target the first year we were married. Cost us all of $10.89. It keeps going and going.
We have a much nicer tree now for our living room, but there is something special about plugging those colored bottle-brush ends into that wooden pole each year.
Hey OTiS, what happened with Comcast last night? The same type of thing happens to me about once every week late at night when watching my DVR. I always need to unplug the DVR then reset it. Then it takes another 6 hours to update itself.
Oh, the beauty of monopolies :eyeroll:
HAPPEN'D TO ME LAST NITE 2...
WAS THERE A STORM WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT???
ha. :cool:
My newer tree you have to match the painted metal ends
I just got around to reading this thread. I'm a little on the late side this week.
I blame Tequilla... and Kitch.
friggen Calipals :smile:
:smile:
~ chica con grande chinos..
and no - chinos aren't boobs.
Kids :eyeroll:
My high Score so far is 521
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Dec. 9) -- Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the predawn skies. About 45 minutes before dawn on Sunday those three planets will be so close that the average person's thumb can obscure all three from view.
They will be almost as close together on Saturday and Monday, but Sunday they will be within one degree of each other in the sky. Three planets haven't been that close since 1925, said Miami Space Transit Planetarium director Jack Horkheimer.
And it won't happen again until 2053, he said.
"Jupiter will be very bright and it will look like it has two bright lights next to it, and they won't twinkle because they're planets," said Horkheimer, host of the television show "Star Gazer. "This is the kind of an event that turns young children into Carl Sagans."
The planets are actually hundreds of millions of miles apart, but the way the planets orbit the sun make it appear they are neighbors in the east-southeastern skies. They'll be visible in most parts of the world - in the Western Hemisphere, as far south as Buenos Aires and as far north as Juneau, Alaska, Horkheimer said.
The experts differ on just how to look at the planets. Horkheimer said naked-eye viewing is fine, but binoculars or a telescope are even better.
But if you are going to use a telescope, be careful because the planets are so close to where the sun will soon rise, if you linger you might gaze at the sun through the telescope and damage your eyesight, said Michelle Nichols, master educator at Chicago's Adler Planetarium.
Ed Krupp, director of Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory, cautioned it will be hard to see the event "with an unaided eye, particularly in an area that is highly urbanized."
The way to find the planets, which will be low on the east-southeast horizon, is to hold your arm straight out, with your hand in a fist and the pinky at the bottom. Halfway up your fist is how high the planets will appear above the horizon, Nichols said.
Jupiter will be white, Mercury pinkish and Mars butterscotch-colored.
"It is a lovely demonstration of the celestial ballet that goes on around us, day after day, year after year, millennium after millennium," said Horkheimer. "When I look at something like this, I realize that all the powers on Earth, all the emperors, all the money, cannot change it one iota. We are observers, but the wonderful part of that is that we are the only species on this planet that can observe it and understand it."
In ancient times, people thought the close groupings of planets had deep meaning, said Krupp. Now, he said, "it's absolutely something fun to look for."
12/08/06 15:36 EST
"It is a lovely demonstration of the celestial ballet that goes on around us, day after day, year after year, millennium after millennium," said Horkheimer. "When I look at something like this, I realize that all the powers on Earth, all the emperors, all the money, cannot change it one iota. We are observers, but the wonderful part of that is that we are the only species on this planet that can observe it and understand it."
Any suggestions?
I went to the MOA yesterday --- 2 hour + wait for santa - they said it would be like that on weekdays too -
Santa is going to be at Anchor Bank on the 21st from 3:30 until 5:30. And you get a free picture with Santa. Not very good working family friendly hours though.
My daughter tried to help me with it yesterday and she's pretty good about this kind of stuff. So I hope everyone likes my hippie self. She might be around for a while. :chagrin:
Shoot! I think this is the last year for Ali anyway. Anybody else have suggestions on when to stop seeing Santa?
We were playing Loaded Questions Saturday night and the question was What is the worst place to be stuck waiting? There were answers like 'on hold', 'jail', 'traffic lights', 'to use the restroom' etc. But then Ali squeaked out 'waiting for Santa' and everyone agreed whole hardily.
Full Boat Joe