If done right, low risk. Remove the turkey from oven when thigh reaches 160 degrees and then cover with tin foil for about an hour before slicing. <<<<
I bring mine up to 190 or better at the thigh, and about 180 at the breast...and use a roasting bag to bring that temperature up. I never trust the built in thermometer as they are untrustworthy. The bird is barely done when that thing pops up, and sometimes it simply doesn’t. So, I use a good quality meat thermometer which also allows one to check the temp of the stuffing.
Sufficient heat kills bacteria, but if something is left sitting for a long time just warm, it can set up bacteria. Keep it HOT! OR...chill it down quickly, and keep it COLD.
If you cook food, and you don’t allow it to cool well before placing it in the fridge, it will sour. In sufficient quantities, it can warm the entire fridge which can cause everything in there to sour before it cools down sufficiently.
A hot kitchen is no place to cool foods that need to be cooled quickly, and putting hot/warm foods in a fridge with the lid ON, allows spoilage. So, if someone made a big batch of gravy, didn’t cool it right and then put the big pot in the cooler with the lid on, and it didn’t cool sufficiently or quickly, you now have a vector for making people sick. Especially if that food wasn’t reheated to the boiling point and well stirred.
And sometimes, actually frequently, processed foods come already tainted..think icecream, hamburger, and many others that come from ‘inspected’ ‘approved’ facilities. How many recalls have we all seen in the news of products tainted from the factory???? You know, the ones licensed to prove they’re ‘safe’, but really aren’t?
It’s hard to know what those people may have eaten before even going to that place for dinner, but it looks like “Hodgins” is going to have to analyze the particulates (the actor from the Bones series) of the leftovers to see if he can find what caused it. Course, by now it’s all likely to be contaminated.
*One more good reason why church’s feeding the homeless should be stopped :( /S
I’ll try that next time. That is the way my mom cooked dressing. My wife has never cooked it that way.
Thank you....