Garbage Can Turkey

[Stroover]

I leaned about this during my 7-year stay in Louisiana:

Get a new metal garbage can and lid. Drive a metal stake (like a 2-3 foot lenght of rebar) or wood stake into the ground so that it sticks out about 1 1/2 - 2 feet out the ground. Stand your turkey on this stake (shove the stick up it's butt, in case you can't visualize this) and place the garbage can upside down over the turkey, as to cover it. The turkey should be approx. in the middle of the garbage can) Place your garbage can cover upside down over the bottom (now the top) of the garbage can so that it's like a big bowl and fill with charcoal and light. Also place charcoal around the bottom of the can on the ground and light. No peeking for about 8 beers (or 4 hours), then chow down.

 

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[River Rat]

Stroover,

Had something similar to this at one of my Halloween parties...we always fried up turkeys & had a pig roast....the pig was roasted in what we called a "Cajun Microwave" instead of "Garbage Can". Delicious, Huh?

RR

 

[Stroover]

Yep, I remember the Cajun Microwave: a wooden box big enough to hold a pig with a metal lid in which you'd lay your charcoal so the heat source would come from the top, like a Dutch oven. We'd stuff chickens inside the pig, and doves or quail inside the chickens. Let the sucker cook for something like 6 to 8 hours, I can't really remember (it's a whole day of beer drinking and socializing with friends).

 

[Postalrevnant]

Mmmm gonna have to try it!! Interesting cooking idea. TY

Rev