I have my first turkey skinned out and ready to flesh. I know the best way to flesh a turkey is with a wire wheel. But can I flesh it by hand. If so, what is the best way to do it. I just don't feel like spending the money for a fleshler for one turkey and don't have the parts to built one. Thanks for the help in advance.
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I know the feeling. My first turkey was flesh out by hand. I used a good pair of curved scissors. It took hours of cutting and then scraping with a wire brush. I will say never again. Since you don't have one maybe you have a drill and you can get a wire brush for your drill. You can make up a home made flesher with this.
SOme years ago I struggled with turkeys, then one day I said enough, enuff, enough I put a fine wire whell on my bench grinder strapped it to a wooden bench and went outside with this mess. About 20 minutes later is was clean, very clean!, just break in the wire wheel with a solid wood board first, remove the head and tail, work from tail to head and fling that greasy crap away. Washed it in the ex-wifes washing machine with FAB, then gas and dried works great to this day. I still aint good on tirkeys but the ugly things last forever and dont bleed grease.
Her washing machine....no wonder she's an ex John...LOL
just wipe it out and run some bleach thru the thing. You should see what I did with the Drier!