Ack! Turkey HELP!!
In this wonderful "stone soup" gathering that will be happening at my place tomorrow, one guest is providing the turkey, and another guest has offered to deep fry it. With the frier, it has to be smaller than a 14 pound bird. The provider of the turkey dropped it off today, and lo and behold THERE IS NO MARKINGS AS TO HOW MUCH IT WEIGHS!!! I can say, it's not a big bird, but. I can't say if it's 14 pounds or not!
My question. Having never opened one of these puppies up before. It's wrapped in a nylon net thingie. And then wrapped in the shrink wrap type of thing that has the brand and nutritional info and what not. Is there another layer under that? Should I open it up to see if there is a label in there?? The nutrional label says "estimated info per servings. Number of servings varies with weight of product" or some such. Yeah, no kidding, I wanna know the weight! This is when I wish I had a bathroom scale. ::sigh::
Any thoughts? Ideas? I can't see any per product stamping (or even a use by date, come to think of it). I'll look again. But. Ack! Any ideas??
Is there a price tag affixed to the nylon net where is forms the handle?
no tag in the handle. I see little corner of paper in the metal clip, that may have been one. Alas, it is gone.
Call and ask. No matter how you cook it you need to know the weight.
Call and ask. No matter how you cook it you need to know the weight.
Right?! Hence my (not-quite) panic. Um, who do I call?!?
Do you have a bathroom scale? Can you put the turkey on the scale and then stand on it? I know holding it would probably be impossible with the crutches.
Or! Weigh something, and then add the turkey, weight it again, and do some math?
Whoever dropped it off?
I thought about suggesting water displacement but that seems kind of extreme.
You might be able to get a close guesstimate if you have multiple somethings of a known weight that you can pick up at once to see if they're right. Or use a balance.
Damn, this is one geeky bunch trying to weigh things.
OK, called mom, and thankfully she put it on her bathroom scale before bringing it over. Why she didn't write that info on the white board on the fridge? Whatever. So, in the bag and net, and everything, it's 13.8 lbs. Whew. Just UNDER the max for the frier.
Crisis averted. Thanks for input.
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