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[Bruce]

or the kerf get hot and melt back together behind the blade.

Ran into that using a jigsaw on corrugated plastic panels. No chipping or cracking with that stuff though, it is pretty soft plastic.

I've not done anything with polycarbonate but acrylic, yep it loves to crack and chip. Definitely want to have the section being cut VERY stable so it can't bounce while being cut.

 

[Latestarter]

So I decided to just go for it with the circular saw. Worked just fine. Took it nice and slow, no chipping, no cracking. Just finished placing it and taking some pics. The goats have already tried to climb into it, over it, through it. I was pleased they were disappointed.

In other news, I took a 16lb turkey out of the freezer yesterday for lunch/dinner tomorrow. Even started staling some bread to make a real stuffing. Bought more spuds to mash & put gravy on and some dinner rolls as well. Have a couple of cans of cranberry in the fridge to chill. Gonna be eating real good for the next few days. Grilled rib eye for dinner tonight.

 

[Mike CHS]

That looks good and it's even better that the goats can't get in.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Looks really Good Joe!!....it sure sounds like ya will be eating Good in yo neighborhood for a bit.....

 

[greybeard]

Coincidence, but we put a turkey in the oven ourselves a couple hrs ago. Never have tried it before, but used a jennieO frozen cook-in-the-bag-without-thawing bird. We shall see.......and we shall also see, for the 1st time in the 23 years we've been together, if my wife can cook a turkey.
(I am da cook here most of the bigger meals and last night I downloaded 3 different traditional fruit kolache recipes..a project for rainy tuesday..we shall see on that as well...)

 

[Latestarter]

Never done one of those type turkeys GB. Will be interested to hear your verdict, providing of course that your wife of 23 years, can indeed cook a turkey properly. I've always done most all the cooking as well. My 2nd wife did cook some Russian dishes that I didn't know, that were quite good. My first wife didn't know what a stove/oven was used for. Just finished the rib eye. It was very good. Looked kinda like those shared by Fred here a few evenings back. Think I''ll throw together a salad as I'm still a little hungry.

 

[Mini Horses]

Like your hay rack. I need 2 of those. Hmmmm.. I'll send pic to son.

 

[greybeard]

Never done one of those type turkeys GB. Will be interested to hear your verdict, providing of course that your wife of 23 years, can indeed cook a turkey properly.

She did her part fine.
It came in the bag pre-seasoned, and I suppose pre-basted.
Cooked in 3.5 hrs as per the directions for the weight of the bird.
Looked pretty good, and certainly juicy and done thru but I was not crazy about the seasoning they used. Still, considering how little mess and no worries about thawing , it worked out fine.
(the gravy mix that came in a little plastic pouch between the outer bag and the cooking bag?....uh, no. just.no)

Removed it from the oven and checked it with a meat thermometer which said it was done. (it also had one of those notoriously inaccurate popup thingies that had indeed popped up)
Just out of the oven:

After letting it 'sit a spell', I slit the bottom of the bag, and tilted the carcass up to drain most of the liquid off before moving onto something I could work off of.
Transferred out of the roasting pan onto a sheet with 1" tall sides so I could remove the cooking bag and let it drain a bit:

Off the bone and ready to eat:

(I guess I'll keep her around a little longer, but I haven't forgotten the great cloved ham debacle of 1997. She stuck an entire jar of cloves in the ham...said she thought there was supposed to be one in every one of the little precut diamonds in the ham skin...we threw it out, but the kitchen smelled scrumptious for several days.)

 

[babsbag]

That would be a heck of a lot of cloves.

I don't cook during the week while DH is gone and he likes to cook on the weekends so I am more than happy to let him. I really don't enjoy cooking (or maybe it is the mess it makes that I don't like). I cooked all the meals and did all the shopping when the kids were at home; when they left for college I retired from the kitchen and never looked back. I still do all the canning and of course the cheese making.

Hay feeders look great. And just an FYI, I use my grinder to cut those kind of panels. It really just melts the edge, but it works.

 

[greybeard]

That would be a heck of a lot of cloves.

Looked like a short sheared porcupine would.