Just in time for the winter season comes a recipe that is sure to bring bacon lovers some warm holiday cheer. Turbaconducken. That’s right — a chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon. Otherwise known as a bacon-wrapped turducken. Just how did we create this meaty madness? Read on.
It all started with a dream…and a whole bunch of bacon. Five pounds of bacon to be exact. For some variety we used three types of bacon, including Rocco’s Country Peppered Bacon for the decorative topping.
We used a 15 pound turkey, a small duck, and a pre-cut whole chicken. We consulted the internet for a turducken recipe and hoped for the best.
We started by wrapping the chicken pieces in bacon.
Then we split the duck into two halves…
…and wrapped the duck halves in bacon.
At this point the chicken and duck started looking pretty big, so we test fit the pieces into the turkey. There wasn’t any room to spare but we managed to get all the pieces in there.
Then we wrapped the turkey in bacon and the feast was ready for the oven.
We cooked the birds in a roaster oven on low heat. Cooking took all day but the results were worth the wait.
The cooked concoction looked mouth-wateringly good after pulling it out of the oven.
Some of the bacon shifted during cooking, but overall the bacon held together quite well after an entire day in the oven.
The final product was moist and absolutely delicious. We used no seasoning whatsoever. The bacon gave the poultry just the right hint of salty goodness. The perfect holiday meal for bacon lovers everywhere!
Smaste™ rating: 45.953
Mmmmmm!
[...] written before about a main dish that outdoes Turducken. Now we have Turbaconducken to think [...]
[...] bacon recipies bacon explosion Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes turbacducken Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon)|Bacon Today [...]
Disgusting…. now if it were deep fried then you’d have something there.
Looks good to me I love bacon . and perhaps i would like the turkey better if it were wrapped in the bacon. serve it in the dinning cars with the pumpkin pie. Try it you’ll like it I always say.
More important than bacon (did I just say that?)…do you really work on a train. My obsession with trains is completely abnormal for girly girls but it’s there. Can’t deny it. My childhood dream was to be a porter for Amtrak. Tell me train stories please? Pretty please with bacon on top?
I am almost crying here laughing so hard at some of the profound comments on this site; I’ve always wanted to try a slice of turducken, but since it’s only the mr. and myself, we would be on a corner on friday selling sandwiches, since that is a heck of a lot of leftovers for 2 people, and he prefers pork to chicken.
I wondered myself if all that inner bacon wrapping cooks, although I can see where it would not only help keep the meats moist but serve as some awesome base for the gravy, or even the “debris” from this on sandwiches would give you a turbaconduckengasm right before they had to defibrillate you, but man what a way to go, especially for someone who decided to be a DNR…I’d want to rescind the DNR just to be able to tell what ran thru my mind at the moment after that meal…OMG…Andrew Zimmern or Tony Bourdain should do a two-man show for the travel channel about this meat project. Anyone who saw Andrew Zimmern actually trying the turducken, or Anthony Bourdain with his “3 little pigs” sandwich will understand.
The look of the “creature” is a bit off-putting, it looked like what you would get if you hogtied a turducken with miles of red-and-white ribbon candy. Don’t know, it seems a bit salty to me, a good hostess will make sure there are plenty of diuretics to go around when she passes the after-dinner mints!!!
[...] http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/ [...]
[...] Get step-by-step instructions with pics for Turbaconducken at BaconToday. [...]
I thought about this bacon all day! I have something to say, if you dont like bacon, DON’T HATE! We don’t hate you tree hugging tofu eating fatso’s. Every vegetarian friend I have is obese! You need to eat meat to have the energy to kick the asses of dumb people who try to dictate how others should live their lives!
Somebody hold me.
[...] Today, in Bible study, several of my wife’s friends were complaining about family being the worst part of the holidays. To these people, I have one simple request: shut up. Please. I’m getting angry and disgusted listening to you whining about what a burden your family is. If your family is such a burden, please tell them to stay home. Then, free from their burdensome company, feel free to come over to our house for Thanksgiving. We’d love the company. Until then, you should realize that starving people don’t really understand why you’re complaining about the quality of the turbaconducken. [...]
Can someone post some calorie and the fat content information please.
Stephanie said, “You need to eat meat to have the energy to kick the asses of dumb people who try to dictate how others should live their lives!” I almost wet my pants. The responses are hilarious, especially the ones from the outraged – you’re on a website called “Bacon Today”, idiots. Pass that platter of Turbaconducken my way right now!
[...] http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/ [...]
Okay, I’m a veggie (most of the time) and I would make this for my boyfriend and some friends (and probably sneak some for myself) for a special occasion. Also even if you ARE a veggie, you could adapt it to your soy-based vegetarian needs (although it won’t be nearly as good). Can’t we all just get along?
I’m not a veggie for health reasons, animal rights reasons… really it was more of a cullinary challenge to get away from making chicken every night – ok and I wanted to try and lose a few pounds.
I think I would try a traditional turducken and wrap it in bacon. We had a dish called “moink” at a dinner party a few months ago it was some sort of roast beef wrapped in a bacon weave – very tasty.
So long as people aren’t eating this every day I don’t see why once a year (I’m thinking Superbowl Sunday!) is such a bad thing. As far as decadence – people have been creating elaborate meals like this for centuries. I’d like to think that my ancestors in Cornwall had turduckens at the feasts in ale halls…
I’m thinking instead of gravy… make a honey mustard cream sauce with chives or scallions sprinkled on top or homemade BBQ sauce glazed over it all. Or it can be a cajun turbaconducken! I love the idea of hot sauce too… yum!!
Serve it with garlic mashed potatoes, roasted and herbed root vegetables, steamed asparagus with apricot glaze… and it will balance out the meal. I can’t imagine a serving of this being much more fattening than some of the fried tofu recipes I’ve found on the internet.
I agree… if you’re so appalled by cooking with bacon or combining meats and what not then why are you on this site? Are you the same people who comment on my local newspaper’s site that have nothing better to do with your lives than tell people they’re wrong in order to validate your life choices? There is nothing wrong with being Vegan, Vegetarian, or an Omnivore. While products out there allow us to not HAVE to eat meat – we’re still designed as human beings to eat meat (that’s what those sharp pointy canine teeth we have are for) and those who do should be allowed to do so without catching flack from people who don’t – and vice versa.
Again – can’t we all just get along?
[...] They’re taking inspiration from the Bacon Explosion and making it their own. Not a bad idea really to wrap chicken in bacon and turkey. If you add duck to the mix it would be a poor man’s bacon wrapped turducken. [...]
Use a Cornish game hen and stuff it into the chicken. Use the smallest game hen, chicken, duck and turkey you can, all deboned, then it may fit into the biggest goose you can find. Bagooturduckenhen, anybody? I have no idea what ostrich or emu taste like, but……..hmmm….too bad the dodo is extinct. I think you could have fit a deboned ostrich into a dodo or a Great Auk. (Just kidding except for the Cornish game hen
)
As for the disapproving vegans, do you read posts on this web site for the same reason people enjoy horror movies so much? Why else would you come to a site about cooking with meat, is it for the recipes? If you want to feel all superior to other people, trolling a website about bacon doesn’t really cut it. Go out and do a lot of volunteer work, then adopt a special needs child, and feed the homeless and adopt a few animals from a high kill shelter, then you would have the right to feel superior. Any fool can criticize strangers online because they disagree with them. That doesn’t confer superiority.
I have no idea why people would say this recipe is the reason Americans are so fat. After all, how many fat Americans have tried this recipe, anyway? How many countries don’t have at least a few fattening recipes for special occasions or holidays? I’m guessing most countries have at least one holiday dish heavy in fat, butter and/or cream, if not bacon. This is given as a special holiday main course. Nobody suggested you eat more than a few ounces of this once a year. If you ate a lot of it on a regular basis, it certainly wouldn’t be very healthy. But that’s not the point of the recipe.
Nasty…. disgusting…. pukeworthy…..
@Siddhartha Vicious – Please change your name, it’s a stupidly ignorant thing when a person wearing Buddha’s name starts the glory to bacon..
Go PETA!!!
hahaha something to tick off PETA. I think lining the turkey with bacon is a great idea. I’m just not that into duck…yuck
This idiot had to look up the recipe on the internet? Good job Einstein!!
Sick food… makes me wanna throw up right on your face.
[...] Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon) | Bacon Today Recipe for a duck-stuffed turkey wrapped in bacon. Hmmmmmmm. (Via KDeA) (tags: food humor recipes cooking turkey thanksgiving martyemail) [...]
[...] give you Turbaconducken. Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is. If you click the link, you will either rush right [...]
I bet it makes a great gravy.
hey vegetarians if you don’t like it, then don’t make it.
[...] heart attack-inducing dish of roasted chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, all wrapped in endless slabs of bacon. And so it has come to pass. After the Democratic majority larded up the massive spending package [...]
YUM. I love it!
Personally, I would have taken the skin off all the poultry and mayyyyyybe poked some holes in the bottom so that a little extra fat could drain off–quite a bit would drain off anyway, though. But that’s just me–I generally pull/cut/drain about 90% of the excess fat off my food, anyway. And frankly, I prefer red meat to poultry, but I’m a big bacon fan, even though I don’t eat meat that much. I would have used the pepper bacon for the whole thing, though.
And for all the people complaining about “this is why Americans are fat yarrgh blah blah blah…”
Ok, has no one heard of a deep-fried Mars© bar? That’s not an American invention (no, really, it exists–Google it). So calm down. We didn’t invent the idea of playing with our food and making really weird dishes (I think the French may win that one). If we want to wrap three animals in bacon and eat the thing with about 20 other people ONCE a year with leftovers spaced out over 6 months or so, it’s not your concern because we aren’t forcing you to eat it, too.
Besides, getting this stressed over a stranger’s once-a-year eating habits might give you a heart attack long before we have one. Deep breaths, please.
I think I just died and went to heaven! I make popcorn with bacon grease and a little strip of bacon for the flavor, much better than canola or peanut oil. And this? Well this is just the bees knees.
Whoa! Baked Headcrab??!?!?!?!?!?
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Headcrab
[...] the folks over at BACON TODAY have created their own holiday dining feast: a TURBACONDUCKEN. It’s a traditional turducken, but it’s been completely baconized with [...]
[...] Turbaconducken [...]
[...] wilt weten hoe je dit abominabele neefje van de Carrion Carcass uit Timesplitters moet bereiden: be my guest. Martijn, ik verwacht binnenkort een fotoverslag (vergeet niet dat de kip IN de eend moet en de [...]
[...] to Holy Taco for passing along the gospel of Bacon Today. Check out that Bacon Today link because after all, they promise “Daily Updates on the [...]
[...] just asking, you know, because why else would she do this: Remember this thing? It’s a Turbaconducken — a roasted chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, all wrapped in endless slabs [...]
[...] Turducken cut into quarters to show the internal layers Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon)Bacon Today [...]
[...] intrepid folks at Foodbeast have crafted something possibly even more daring than the bacon-wrapped turducken: the bacon cheese [...]
[...] – Still looking to wow 'em on turkey day? Whip up a turbaconducken. [Bacon Today] [...]
[...] – looks like Castle food to me Turbaconducken __________________ [...]
It looks like a blob of fat. Truly gross. “therealgeekmom” will turn her kids into vegetarians with this mess or maybe just kill them.
Please cancel your health insurance so I’m not subsidizing your heart disease and strokes.
well, unlike some nasty liberals i don’t use subsidized health care as i believe in paying for myself. and if you really need to know…bacon isn’t as bad for you as they say, but you sound like a government glee who will believe anything they say.
[...] time and wouldn’t mind if everything was wrapped in bacon (speaking of, have you seen this bacon wrapped turducken aka [...]
This is truly the most gross thing I have ever seen… and I’m a nurse…
[...] it seems only appropriate that some wonderful culinary creations would be rolled out… Like this one… This shit is absolutely, ridiculous(ly, amazing)! If there is nothing better than roasting a duck [...]
[...] Something or Other Posted on December 19, 2008 by JM Do not click here. No, really, I don’t think you can handle [...]
I see the food police are out in full force on this one. Some people just love to stay up on their high horse and “teach” people how to live their lives. Gee, bacon isn’t healthy for you? No kidding. Like you think you’re telling us something we didn’t know?
Some of us would rather live our lives enjoying the good things, even if it may cost us a few years. It’s certainly better than worrying about every little thing you eat, and then ending up 6 feet in the ground like the rest of us anyway.
[...] Turbaconducken: [...]
[...] you see, is small. And like all small things, that means that making a big meal of bacon requires a lot of work, and much bacon. I hope the record shows that when it comes to fatty meat, I am against work. Many [...]
get weight loss tips…
what is natural weight loss…
[...] it’s not even any harder to do the Turbaconducken*. That’s what I really [...]
Hi, this is a very interesting blog page and ive enjoyed reading many of the articles and posts contained on the website, keep up the good work and hope to read some more interesting content in the future.
[...] ich erkenne dich wieder Da muss ich irgendwie an das hier [...]
[...] want to. Or the fact that I don’t have to eat Thanksgiving dinner on the Space Station . Or a Bacon Turducken. Or anything from the Natural Harvest Semen Cookbook. I can be thankful that we finally have a new [...]
You could put a balut in it – that’s the hardboiled fertilized half-developed chicken or duck egg…