How to Cook Turkey with Tech

e14phil — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:16:40 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by e14phil on 11/23/2017 1:16:40 PM

Happy Thanksgiving to all our amazing American Community members.

May I wish that your birds are plump and you cholesterol be low!

With the Holiday season upon us I would like present to you all my guide to cooking your Holiday Turkey, while loosing as few eyebrows as humanly possible.

For the sake of full disclosure, I have to admit, as some of you already know, I am a full born an bread Red Coat British citizen, writing this in the north of England at the moment.

But as a proud Englishman, Maker and a bit of a chubby cook (Never trust a skinny chef), I can arguably say that I know how to cook a turkey, as I do for my Christmas Dinner once a year and most weekends for my, ever so British Sunday Roast.

Here are my alternative methods of cooking turkey and sides this Holiday season.

1) Raspberry Pi powered Sous Vide

Haldean Brown released plans for a Raspberry Pi Powered Sous Vide (CC BY-SA)

When one cooks meat, the goal is to get the internal temperature of the meat to whatever value indicates that the meat is tender and delcious. For most meats, this is in the 50 °C – 65 °C range. However, to cook them expediently we use cooking surfaces that are significantly hotter than that — a frying pan on high can get up to 240 °C, four times the target temperature! The result is that the outside of your steak is cooked to 200 °C so the inside can be 55 °C.
Sous vide is a method of food preparation that operates on a simple principle; instead of using a cooking surface that is very hot so the food cooks quickly, use a cooking surface that is exactly the temperature you want your food to be (or, if you’re impatient, slightly above). Then, all you need to do is let your food reach thermal equilibrium with the cooking surface and it’s ready to eat.

Git Hub: Sous vide from scratch : haldean

2) Deep Fried Turkey

Deep Fried Turkey is one of those mind blowing cooking techniques that tastes so good when done right and is so incredibly stupid when it is done wrong!

To quote Adam Savage: Am I missing an Eyebrow?

Doing it Right:

www.youtube.com/watch

Doing it Wrong:

www.youtube.com/watch

3) Run Electricity through it. (Really.. Do not)

This on is definitely under the, Do Not Try At Home, section

www.youtube.com/watch

4) Cook it with your Cars Engine Bay

As per the grandly named, Manifold Destiny, why not cook your turkey while driving to the in-laws house?

Using the heat from the engine, tinfoil and with no understanding of e-coli or oil poisoning, you can perfectly cook your holiday meal under your bonnet.... Tasty..

ISBN-10: 1416596232

ISBN-13: 978-1416596233

Cooking great meals with your car engine. The heat is on.

5) Use a Raspberry Pi Powered Microwave

Nathan Broadbent was fed up of his Microwave lacking features, so turbo charged it with his Raspberry Pi and an Arduino

Modifications to the microwave Raspberry Pi Projects.

Re-designed touchpad & better sounds
Clock is automatically updated from the internet
Can be controlled with voice commands
Can use a barcode scanner to look up cooking instructions from an online database
There weren't any online microwave cooking databases around, so I made one: http://microwavecookingdb.com
The microwave has a web page so you can control it from your phone (why not), and set up cooking instructions for products
Tweets after it's finished cooking (See https://twitter.com/rbmicrowave)

www.youtube.com/watch

Build Blog: http://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/

Bonus: You cannot Cook Turkey with microwave (radio transmitter) or Radar.

That is if you have your own destroyer class battleship, As explored by Mythbusters in their Christmas Myths episodes.

A turkey can be cooked with a microwave radio. BUSTED (as seen in Christmas Myths)
A turkey can be cooked with a radar. BUSTED (as seen in Christmas Myths)

MythBusters Myth Results: Food | MythBusters | Discovery

... And with that, I want to wish you all Happy Holidays, and remind you to cook safely.

- e14Phil

Tags: baking, pi, turkey, thanksgiving, radio, raspberry pi, radar, Technology, holidays, christmas, brewing, rpi, mrc, arduino, cooking