On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:02:07 -0000, Bubbabob
> wrote:

>"Vox Humana" > wrote:
>
>> Finally, even
>> if they are contaminated with bacteria, cooking them would kill the
>> bacteria.
>>
>
>Yes, but cooking does little to nullify the toxins that the bacteria have
>already excreted.
>
>To be on the safe side, boil the brine for a minute or two between the
>birds. I probably wouldn't bother, myself.

In the case of salmonella, illness is caused by the little bugs
entering one's digestive tract and infecting the walls of the gut.
There they produce an enterotoxin (SP?) that makes one heave and shit
chili. Toxins in the birds I don't know about, but as long as the
meat isn't noticeably spoiled, I'd not be concerned.

I'm no fan of turducken (echoes of Calvin Trillin's "stuff stuff with
heavy"), but were I to brine such a concoction, I'd bone out the foul,
brine them individually or together (I can't see any difference) and
then do the stuffing. If it were a commercially stuffed avian
assemblage (how's that for a synonym for turducken?), I'd not brine it
because odds are it's been injected with one or another "patented
solution" of food industry standard salt water.

OBStuffing stuff: I know a guy whose Thanksgiving dinner revolved
around a shot of Bourbon inside a bottle of pinot grigio inside a keg
of Shiner Bock. Something about the presidential election, as I
understand it.

modom

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