Dinner was a success. We were eating 12:20 which wasn’t too late for the goal of noon.
The only hitch was when the turkey and I were wrestling. I couldn’t get the neck out of the cavity because of the plastic thing holding the legs. It took forever to get that plastic thing off. I pulled and yanked and pulled and yanked. It wouldn’t cut off so I decided to cut it. The meat wouldn’t cut right so I resorted to stabbing. Pull and yank and stab and stab and stab. When it finally came loose, it blasted me with meat pieces flat into my face. I was still picking gunk out of my hair this morning. I’m the fight a draw.
Stabbing? Ha! I finally resorted to tearing the meat with my fingers to get the last bit off the breast bone. My Dad was a carving master, but it didn’t make it to me.
A similar thing happened to me, because it wasn’t 100 % thawed inside the cavity. I actually got out pliers but ended up pouring a little hot water in there and that worked. I had started thawing it on Mon. You would think it would have been completely thawed.