Slow Roasting Turkey

11/25/2015 | LoneRangerMassachusetts

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

For years, I have slow roasted a turkey for Thanksgiving. I bake it at 180 degrees for an estimated time of one hour per pound. This rule has worked for 25 years. Tonight, the thermometer is rising about twice as fast as usual. I put a second thermometer into the bird to check the first. I put an oven thermometer into the over to check its temperature. I found no disparities in the thermometers. Something is different with this bird. It's from Whole Foods, no hormones. I've gotten my turkeys from them for years. What's going on with my turkey?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Help. Any thoughts? I'm shutting down the oven for the night and will resume baking in the morning to keep from over baking it.

[doorgunner69]

Something is different with this bird.

Zombie bird?

[iowamark]

Bird flu. Your turkey has a fever.

[ifinnegan]

Maybe your oven thermostat is broken.

[daniel1212]

You are in MA. The liberal elite answer could be Global Warming.

[Artemis Webb]

Play the cards you’re dealt.
At this point it’s all you can do.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

If your turkey is free-range, free-range birds allegedly cook faster.

[SamAdams76]

That’s crazy. We set the oven to 400 degrees and put a room temperature bird in at 10am. It’s done by 2 and it’s perfect.

[This_far]

Obama Turkey hotline: there is no obvious threat

Coumo Turkey hotline: how many thermometers does it take to read a temputure Mr Speaker

UMASS AMHURT student hotline: yore violating turkey safe zone

(did ya take the gizzard package out?)
Oh, and YOU’RE still in Mass (an ex Mass pat)

Hope you figure it out (or at least become an FR legend)

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Different oven than before?

Convection ovens heat nearly twice as fast.

[mcmuffin]

Tonight, the thermometer is rising about twice as fast as usual. What's going on with my turkey?

Gobble warming???

[US Navy Vet]

Are you logged in?

[bobby.223]

Did Laz hit it before you placed it in the oven? That could have changed things.....

[Eagletest]

I once cooked a bird at 525 degrees for approx. twenty-minutes, and while it wasn’t “Perfect,” it was “cooked.” L

[cherry]

is that wise to have your turkey at that low a temp over night?......its a perfect breeding ground for bad germs....

[berdie]

Not crazy at all. I have always cooked the turkey at night. It frees up the oven for the other dishes that need to be cooked the next day. Especially if the family wants to eat early. Plus it smells so good when ya wake up!!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...that takes the cake and cannot be beat! Well played.

We’ve been doing our annual bird in the Weber kettle for 30 years. Indirect method, 11-13 minutes per pound, toss in a bit more charcoal every hour. Foolproof and we’ve never had one cook too fast or too slow.

[berdie]

“gobble warming”

Well, I don’t have the seniority to pronounce this a thread winner. But in my world..it was!! :D

[Eagletest]

You’re killing me... At ZooMass and 90% of of Snowflake encampments, It could be a Micro-aggresion to wonder if the bird is “cooked” and a Macro-Stupendous-Unfathomable Aggression to stick the thermometer into the thigh meat, without touching the bone...Errr

[Albion Wilde]

Gobble warming???

You broke the internet!!