I wasn't planning on eating in the first place but this is torture to watch.
My dads girlfriend was preparing this bird all day, preheated the oven and right before she shoves it in she grinds some salt on the bird.
But then she starts grinding BLACK PEPPER
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK and puts it in the oven completely coated with crushed black pepper.
WTF. who the fuck COOKS with black pepper?. I always thought it went acrid at like 400°C. When I left it looked like a dark brown crust of cooked burnt pepper and I could smell something was off. Right on the top of the bird too, so all those juices and fats can get ruined, oh and all that stuffing, everything is ruined.
Pepper on a Turkey that is cooked 400°C+ for hours is the stupidest thing you can do. All you are doing is adding an acrid burnt spice and fucking up the taste on a generally tasteless meat.
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