Dressing or stuffing?

I always call that stuff with God-knows-what in it stuffing. Dressing is what you put on salad. I can’t think of anything else to put it on.

Dressing is outside the bird. Stuffing is inside it. Otherwise, it isn’t “stuffing” anything at all.

Stuffing, no matter where it’s cooked. Like @dxs, I consider dressing a liquid you put on a salad.

I’m with dsx and Auggie… if someone refers to dressing, I’m imagining liquid on salad and I get perplexed for a moment until I figure out what they mean.

I was going to answer, but then I realized that these stuffing/dressing debates tend to get more nasty than any of the religious questions.

I’ll just be over here in the corning sipping some eggnog

It’s stuffing. Always stuffing.
I’m in the same camp as @dxs, @augustlan, and @hearkat.

Stuffing! I cook and serve my birds undressed.

Neither. Mashed Tatties please!

Stuffing. Where it is cooked is irrelevant.

@Kardamom :: The chicken-burger/sandwich debate gets way nastier.

I have always called it stuffing, no matter where it is cooked. For half my life, I didn’t even know it could be cooked outside the bird.

I think it is stuffing in America; dressing in the UK.

@janbb Here in Southern California, we use the two words interchangeably. But within our family, we’ve always made it (whatever it’s called on any given day) outside of the bird.

Middle of the Midwest and we always called it dressing to my knowledge. But then again, I don’t recall seeing anyone ‘un-stuff’ it from anywhere, or I probably wouldn’t have eaten it as a kid.

We had turkey for Thanksgiving, and it was cooked in a Nesco roaster. The oven was busy, cooking the dressing. If there was turkey Christmas, there was oyster dressing.

On the other hand, we were Southerners by heritage, so liked our dressing moist and dense. None of that fru-fru fluffy, crunchy stuff for me.

either or

I thought your question was about Santa himself.

He is both stuffed and dressed (in red).

My Northern parents call it stuffing no matter where it’s cooked; my Southern in-laws call it dressing no matter where it’s cooked. I can’t convince myself to call it dressing – you put dressing on a salad.

I’m thinking ahead to next year. I sprinkled a couple of boxes of stuffing stuff all over the yard and the turkeys ate it up. I’ll be calling it white meat.

@ibstubro You just reminded me that my Grandmother, no longer living, and my Mom always made the turkey in the Roaster because the oven had either pies, or stuffing/dressing, rolls and sweet potatoes cooking in it. My aunt is the only one in our family that has a double oven, so she makes her turkey in the oven, but it wasn’t until just now, that I realized it and remembered that we have one of those nifty electric roasters.

Mom and Grandma always made dressing/stuffing outside of the bird, in a casserole, and we actually do like it kind of dry and a wee bit crunchy. They always used Mrs. Cubbison’s boxed brand, and added onions, celery and sage to it. Grandma used to make it with chicken broth, but my Mom always uses vegetable broth for me. I won’t eat stuffing at anyone else’s house, not even a restaurant, unless it’s specifically a vegetarian restaurant, otherwise I’d be consuming some sort of meat product.

My Mom also uses my Grandma’s recipe for baked sweet potatoes, only she leaves the marshmallows (which contain gelatin) off of them.

^ Sweet potatoes are vegetables.

Vegetables are vegetables and artificial sweet things are artificial sweet things, and the two do not meet under my roof.

I do, occasionally, sprinkle on a bit of brown sugar and cinnamon.

I’ve never understood why people sweeten sweet potatoes with sugar or (eek) marshmallows. They’re called sweet potatoes for a reason!

Mostly to appease others. I like them with butter and salt.

@Seek_Kolinahr Indeed – that’s how I do them, too.

We make them with a little bit of brown sugar, butter and chopped pecans, then roast them in the oven.

@Kardamom Aunt Beanie (Alvena, actually) made the moistest turkey in her Nesco roaster. They’re nice in the summer, too, if you use them to roast foods outside the oven. Less heat in the house, or you could even put them in the garage. I have 3 because,
A.) I’m a packrat.
B.) I have an auction house and wait until stuff is the same as free.
C.) I might maybe have to entertain a crowd again.

lol. 3 full sized and 1–2 small, that is.

@ibstubro We only have the one, but we use it out in the laundry room, because there is usually too much other stuff going on in our small kitchen. Our roaster is a fulled size model. The one we have now is about 5 years old, but it looks almost identical to the one my Grandma had when I was growing up in the late 60’s.

I did ‘Christmas for the Family’ once, @Kardamom, and they all came from 4.5 hours away. My consolation was that I did all the ‘hot’ dishes…roast pork loin, roasted turkey breast (yeah, yeah, yeah…I didn’t eat, I cooked), mashed potatoes, gravy, buttered corn, hot bread, etc. Nesco roasters and crock pots made the buffet. I’ve horded them both, every since.

I’ve cooked hotel buffet, and I think it’s in my blood. lol

@ibstubro We busted out my 3 pot crock pot for our big Family Potluck this year. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to make them by hand, but we had 3 different kinds of tamales. The theme for our food this year was Christmas around the world. So we brought tamales and my Mom made English trifle. That crock pot thingee worked out really well. I plan to use it to have a soup party in the near future.

The Crock Pot 3 well thingy just seems too shallow to me. More sauce than entree?

The Nesco Roaster has an insert that divides it into thirds, but I can’t find one that fits my (vintage) roaster(s).

@ibstubro I also have a single pot, larger crock pot. So I can use that for more substantial cooking, but the 3 pot thingee is great for buffet style serving. It’s nice to have both.

@Kardamom I’m a hoarder. I probably have 10–12 crockpots in 3–4 different sizes, 5–6 Nesco Roasters in 2 different sizes, and a couple 3-section buffet servers. I used the excuse of having food at the auction house if there’s something food related I want to keep. :-)

@ibstubro So exactly when are you hosting a Fluther party??? You got all the stuff!

Oh. Crap. I have more than all the stuff. Problem is, I have so much ‘stuff’ I have no “room”.

Truth told, if the weather was bad, I’d have a hard time accommodating much more than 100–150. If the weather was good, (I’d have to get permission) maybe 4–800?