This comes on topic eventually...

The annual present from work is a turkey. A frozen one. I've only been
there for 3 Christmasses and most of the folk waxed lyrical over the
*really* big turkeys they used to be given.

The ones I received over the last couple of years were 8 or 9 pounds and
I was happy with this since there's only so much of the stuff that a
family of three can cope with the smallest now being a bit over 2.

This year the thing is alost 17lbs. As it is, we've come up with a plan
to cook the whole thing, bought a big roasting tin, will have a cooking
day making pies and stuff to freeze.

I'm only going to do that once so next year I plan on splitting the
thing in half.

Food safety says I shouldn't really defrost it, cut it in half and then
re-freeze half (unless I want to risk some interesting bugs).

How would you lot go about splitting a 17lb frozen turkey? Lengthwise.

I have a feeling that a bow saw would be the best way.

1. Blade is disposable so you can use a new one and keep things clean
2. Fairly long throw.

A friend says hacksaw due to hardness.

Suggestions?

warwick

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Warwick wrote:


This year the thing is alost 17lbs. As it is, we've come up with a
plan to cook the whole thing, bought a big roasting tin, will have a
cooking day making pies and stuff to freeze.

Well let's hope you don't end up like this . . .
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index...topicseen.html

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In article MPG.1e16a8bcdc7f7ff798969e@dalai,
Warwick writes:

I have a feeling that a bow saw would be the best way.

1. Blade is disposable so you can use a new one and keep things clean
2. Fairly long throw.

A friend says hacksaw due to hardness.

Suggestions?

I recall our biology teacher at school sawing a pig's head in
half on the bandsaw in the woodwork shop. However, I don't
think that can have been frozen -- from the mess it made,
you would have thought he'd sawn up the whole class of kids.
Woodwork teacher was not amused.

Sorry, no help, but it brought back that memory...

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Warwick wrote:
How would you lot go about splitting a 17lb frozen turkey? Lengthwise.

Router & a straight edge.............................................. .....

Dave

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:37:54 -0000, Warwick wrote:

I have a feeling that a bow saw would be the best way.

1. Blade is disposable so you can use a new one and keep things
clean
2. Fairly long throw.

That would be my choice. Holding the turkey might be a problem and the
chips of bone but once split you could quickly rinse under cold water
to get rid of those. The cold from the rest of the turkey will quickly
refreeze the slightly thawed surface before you've bunged it back in
the freezer. I might put the freezer into super freeze mode for 24hrs
before hand to make sure the turkey is seriously frozen to start with.

A friend says hacksaw due to hardness.

Frozen stuff isn't that hard.

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Warwick wrote:

How would you lot go about splitting a 17lb frozen turkey? Lengthwise.


Best way would be to have a word with your local butcher. High street
not mass murderer superstore...

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Warwick
saying something like:

How would you lot go about splitting a 17lb frozen turkey? Lengthwise.

I have a feeling that a bow saw would be the best way.

Just chainsaw the bugger.
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In article MPG.1e16a8bcdc7f7ff798969e@dalai,
Warwick wrote:
This year the thing is alost 17lbs. As it is, we've come up with a plan
to cook the whole thing, bought a big roasting tin, will have a cooking
day making pies and stuff to freeze.

I'm only going to do that once so next year I plan on splitting the
thing in half.

Good idea. And chuck half away. ;-)

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