[Sca-cooks] OOP - Turkey, again!

[Nick Sasso]

----- Original Message -----
From: "chirhart_1" <chirhart_1 at netzero.net>

> 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

I REALLY hope that was a typo . . . 44# is a monster.  I do, however
agree with the sentiment that younger, smaller birds will definitely
cook quicker in same method/technique.  It isn't a simple arithmetic
progression with 20 lb. bird taking twice as long as a 10 lb. bird, but
it is longer for a 20 than a 10.

There is likely a correlation, just not a simple or easy one.  It will
be different based on cooking method, brined or not, temp of bird when
placed in oven, stuffing density, temp of stuffing when placed in bird
(BIG variable here).  Put it in hot so the oven doesn't have to heat the
stuffing inside the bird before the bird starts cooking good (salmonella
and bacillus cereus aside).

pacem et bonum,
niccolo difrancesco