SC - Dressing/stuffing OOP

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- Christi Rigby <christirigby at pcisys.net> wrote:
> On this topic I heard something interesting on the
> Food channel the other
> day.  According to one of their hosts, if you stuff
> the bird with bread
> crumbs it can harbor bacteria and it absorbs the
> juice from the bird and can
> cause it to dry out.  Any opinions (as if I need
> ask) about this?
> 
> Murkial

I have heard this too.  However, I think that they are
only refering to birds that have been stuffed in
advance.  If you stuff a bird the day before you cook
it, or even longer, there is the _potential_ for
breeding bacteria.  But if you stuff the bird and then
cook it immediately at a sufficiently high
temperature, then there is less _potential_ for
breeding bacteria.

As for drying out the bird, I have not heard of that
before.  From experience, I have noticed the opposite;
that a stuffed bird is moister than an unstuffed bird.
Of course, that is what basting is also for.

Huette
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