Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
Well, the downside of ordering a turkey from a local farmer is that she doesn't raise that many, and once she starts the chicks, they grow how big they want to before Thanksgiving week. The "small" turkey I ordered for just myself and DH is 17#. So much for my plans to spatchcock it - I don't know if they even make a pan big enough, and I certainly wouldn't have any other use for one. Looks like I'll be roasting it whole in a foil roaster again this year.
They totally make pans big enough--we get a 20-lb turkey every year (split among four people, and for the last four years at least one other person...plus we freeze the leftovers for easy soup-making). However, if you don't regularly need to cook that much meat...