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How To Cook A Turkey & Cooking Time Table
To be honest, I have never cooked a full turkey. I've cooked a turducken, ONCE, which is a chicken stuffed in a duck, stuffed in a turkey. It's oven-baked for hours on a low temperature. It took forever and STILL wasn't done, we ended up microwaving it!!!!
If it's your first time to cook a turkey, I'm rooting for you and thought Taste of Home could help with the process. Here's their easy steps to take in Turkey Preparation, GOOD LUCK!
HOW TO COOK A TURKEY
1. Remove giblets that are usually stored in a packet in the neck area of the bird. Use for preparing broth if desired. Remove and discard any large pockets of fat that may be present in the neck area.
2. For whole poultry, drain juices and blot cavity dry with paper towels. Currently, the USDA does not advise washing poultry before cooking. If you do, wash the sink with hot, soapy water or sanitize with a mild bleach solution of 1 teaspoon chlorine bleach to 1 quart of water. This will help prevent cross-contamination to other foods that are washed in the sink.
3. Rub the inside of cavity and neck area with salt.
4. Place breast side up on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.
5. Brush the skin with oil or melted butter.
6. Insert an oven-safe meat thermometer into the thigh area of large birds, not touching bone. (Or for large or small birds, use an instant read thermometer before you return it to the oven.)
7. Roast, uncovered, without liquid according to the temperature and time given in the chart below or recipe. The roasting times provided in the chart below are for defrosted poultry that is refrigerator cold.
8. If poultry browns too quickly, tent with foil.
9. Because roasts will continue to cook after being removed from the oven, remove them when the internal temperature is 5-10 degrees below desired doneness.
10. Cover with foil and let stand for 10-20 minutes before removing any stuffing and carving.
Turkey Cooking Time Table By Weight [here].
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