[Sca-cooks] OOP - Turkey, again!

[chirhart_1]

Hi .sorry for butting in but the younger the turkey the quicker it will
cook, Had a44 pound turkey that cooked to the bone  in two hrs. fortyfive
min.    From chirhart
----- Original Message -----
From: "johnna holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] OOP - Turkey, again!


> This is one of the points that the NPR show was talking about on Friday.
> They said that there's really not much of a correlation between size of
> the bird and cooking time. One twice as big doesn't take twice as long.
> To forget the so many minutes per pound and use a meat thermometer. And
> they were talking about ways to balance the legs versus the breast meat
> so that you don't end up with one overcooked and one raw. One was
> advocating heat; the other dry ice-- it was a weird Science Friday.
>
> You might want to put it on a rack and move it by lifting up the rack.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
> Rosine wrote:>
> >    Does anyone know how to cook it _not too much_? Every year, my turkey
> > falls apart when my husband tries to lift it out of the pan. Meat falls
off
> > the bone. snipped
> > Rosine



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