Quote Originally Posted by milkbone View Post
I don't really have my own story, since I tend to know my limits when it comes to cooking and baking, although I'm a pretty good baker if I do say so myself

When I was a kid, my mom was making Thanksgiving dinner, and she kept commenting on what a "funny looking bird that is", well she put it in the oven to cook and hours ticked by and the same comment kept coming from the kitchen - well dinner time it was and my father went to carve the turkey, yup funny looking bird it was since it was upside down the whole time! LOL...poor mom, but it does make for a funny story.

What makes this really funny is that upside down is an excellent way to cook turkey. I've been doing mine that way for about 20+years now. It guarantees that the breast won't dry out. I do have a funny, not disastrous story about it.
I was doing the usual, cooking the bird upside down, and my hubby's visiting aunt was having a veritable coniption about it. She has a PhD in home ec and just went ballistic about how I was going to ruin the bird. Right, and I mean RIGHT in the middle of her tirade I got a phone call from the previous years' Thanksgiving guests wanting to know how I made my delicious bird. I told him what was going on and he said, I bet you wish you had a speaker phone right now.