The kind you use in the oven have a thin wire that goes through the oven door to the outside where the controls are...the rest are meant to be used to periodically check the temp as you check the turkey, not meant to be left in the oven.
Reminds me of the year they came out with the bags to cook turkeys in, one of my aunts heard people talking after Thanksgiving about how good the turkeys were that were cooked in them. I guess they were called Brown n bag or something like that. Any way when Christmas rolled around she decided to do the turkey that way...she thought people were saying brown bag and buttered up the turkey and put it in a brown grocery sack in the oven to cook...you guessed it...FIRE in the oven.
Funniest Christmas ever was the year Reddi whip came out and my mom, aunts, and step-grandmother looked like they had a whip cream fight in the kitchen while they were trying to figure out how to get it out of the can.
My Mom often roasted turkey in brown paper bags. They always appeared wet to me. I’ll call my sister tomorrow and ask her what Mom’s trick was.