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Why thaw?

Been cooking a totally frozen turkey for over 25 yrs. Use a convention oven. Now there are articles on the subject.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-cook-a-completely-frozen-turkey-for-thanksgiving-225796

https://www.thespruceeats.com/cook-a-frozen-turkey-483280

Use a digital thermometer to check portions of turkey when it gets close to being done.



AND you can cook the turkey upside down! We did it for half the time and the breast was not as dry as usual.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-roast-a-turkey-upside-down-237555

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/thanksgiving-ideas/a26165/turkey-upside-down/

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An oven bag speeds up the cooking a lot.


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yes, we have been using bags for a few years now,and also never-frozen birds

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We always use bags as well,but we have been talking about switching to rib also.

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Originally Posted by deerhunter5555
Put the 16 pounder in the fridge last Saturday night. Thought it would be plenty of time to thaw...not yet it ain’t. Good grief I don’t want to have to do the water thaw tomorrow.

You can let it sit out so long as you periodically touch it to make sure the exterior temp is at least equally cool as things in your refrigerator.

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Now, just say a turkey does spoil some. Would cooking for the time needed at say 350 kill any bacteria?


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Originally Posted by Higbean
Brine that sucker!

Always works at our house.


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I deep fry mine...that’s why it must be completely thawed.


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come on over..........

have a 20# bird & plenty extra !


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I bet you that 90 percent of turkeys are over cooked.


They say the best thing you can do is to schit can that pop up thermometer and get an accurate thermometer.


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My wife put ours in the refrigerator Sunday to thaw, still not totally thawed Wednesday night. In the sink for about four hours, then back in the refrigerator overnight. Good to go this morning.


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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
I bet you that 90 percent of turkeys are over cooked.


They say the best thing you can do is to schit can that pop up thermometer and get an accurate thermometer.



I use a roasting bag...........always down just right........

be the first bird on my new Weber grill.......

pics later..............


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Originally Posted by AcesNeights
I’ve thawed them out every way possible including the “forgetting it on the counter overnight” method and I’ve never been sick. I’ve left many of them in the sink to thaw and then cooked them the next day. Mom always did the long thaw in the fridge or the water drip method but I’m too impatient.

Good luck and happy Thanksgiving.


That’s how defrost pretty much everything. Put it in the sink before bed, put it in the fridge when I get up.


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Originally Posted by tikkanut
Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
I bet you that 90 percent of turkeys are over cooked.


They say the best thing you can do is to schit can that pop up thermometer and get an accurate thermometer.



I use a roasting bag...........always down just right........

be the first bird on my new Weber grill.......

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Use a bag on the grill?


That Weber was made for the job. Mine cooks better than my indoor oven.


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My lovely bride has a pretty bad cold right now. She insisted on cooking Thanksgiving dinner today. She got up early to put the bird on. Came back 2 hours later and noticed she had not turned the oven on.

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There were a few birds in the field across from the house this AM. Nothing a 223 couldn't fix for ya.

Happy Thanksgiving.


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I just read a frantic article about the evils of washing a turkey before you cook it. Apparently they're all swimming in bacteria. The bugs will be killed during cooking, of course, but while washing it, the bugs will splash all over the counter, infecting the salad, pumpkin pie, and cranberry sauce. The hospitals are putting on extra staff tomorrow to deal with the myriad cases of gut bugs we'll all injest today. We're dead men, guys, and it's all because we washed our turkeys.


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Wild turkeys are cleaner.

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