Turducken Week – When 3 regular birds just isn’t enough

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Here’s the top 5 turducken variations I’ve seen that take the whole “chicken in a duck in a turkey” thing to another level.

1. 12 Bird “True Love” Turducken – Turk-oo-du-fo-mal-sin-ail-tridge-on-sant-en-duck

12 bird mega turducken 12 bird turducken

1. Turkey, 2. Goose, 3. Barbary duck, 4. Guinea fowl, 5. Mallard, 6. Poussin, 7. Quail, 8. Partridge, 9. Pigeon squab, 10. Pheasant, 11. Chicken, 12. Aylesbury duck

Holy cow, right? The ‘”true love” bird is modeled after the 12 days of Christmas, feeds 125 people, is roughly 50,000 calories, and takes 8 hours to cook.

2. 5 pound bacon turkducken – Turbaconducken

5 pounds of bacon turducken

Sure, it looks like just a turkey or maybe a “plain ol’ turducken” wrapped in bacon, but really, every bird piece inside was also wrapped in bacon, totaling 5 pounds worth of bacon.

3. Goochiphetridge and Quaducant

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The standard three birds are too boring apparently, so these guys mixed them up. The first is a goose, chicken, pheasant, and partridge. The second is only 6 pounds total with a quail breast and duck breast stuffed with Creole sausage and then placed in a deboned pheasant (quadruple threat).

4. TurBaconEpic

“A bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig.” = 79,046 calories and 6,892g of fat

This was actually the first Epic Meal Time video I ever saw. If you’ve never seen any of them, uh, prepare yourself…it’s a lot of food, so not-always PG references, and maybe even a few gross moments of indulgence.

5. TurBaconEpicCentipede with Baconators

Same rules apply here with not-so-PG references, crazy indulgence, and a whole heck of a lot of food. Lots of birds, lots of bacon, lots of pigs, and lots of YouTube celebrities at this crazy celebration.

Turbaconepiccentipede with turduckens in pigs in a line

Turducken Week – 12 layer cheese ball cheeseducken

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  • Semi-firm cheese like bucheret
  • Cream cheese
  • Spanish chorizo
  • Manchego cheese
  • Dried figs
  • Emmentaler cheese
  • Italian parsley and chives
  • Sharp cheddar cheese
  • Asian pear
  • Bleu cheese
  • Walnuts
  • Chèvre/fresh goat cheese
  • Almonds and pecans
  • Thick-cut bacon

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Food landscapes – Broccoli trees, filet of fish sea, foodscapes, mmm

Nablopomo – Scenery

Foodscape - Landscape picture with broccoli trees, balloons made out of bananas, pears, produce, strawberry, lime; basket of berries blueberries and raspberries; potato rocks

Now this guy knows how to play with his food!

Broccoli looks like trees, cauliflower clouds, whole scenery with bread mountains

Carl Warner has dozens more of these foodscapes in his portfolio, but I’ve gotta say, I really prefer his older work that looks like the last set of pictures on this page. The new stuff looks mostly just Photoshopped. Still artistic and cool to look at, but I have a much harder time picturing that someone actually put it together with real food.

Foodscape with potatoes and lettuce leaf trees

Enjoy some more of these pictures and check out the original artist’s website for much bigger pictures (I set one as my desktop wallpaper) and a bunch more awesomeness.

Fish sea, potato rocks, bread rocks

(Filet of fish sea with a pea canoe? Lovely!)

Rice field with ginger trees and coconut haystacks

Bean rock walls with garlic cheese basket, pepper tres, cheese house

Food landscape art picture

(Carrot stalactites)

Food market art with tortellini, almonds, tomatoes, peas, beans, and pepper curtains

(Did you notice the bell pepper slice awnings?)
Bacon snowscape picture with meat river, bacon trees, biscuit rocks, pretzel sled, snow   Bacon snowscape picture with meat river, bacon trees, biscuit rocks, pretzel sled, snow

Picture of Carl Warner taking pictures of bacon and deli meat landscape scenery

I love that there’s a prep picture shown. I would’ve just assumed everything was painted or produced online to begin with, rather than being able to believe it was all done out of real food. Yummy.