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Turkey cooking guide and other turkey resorces

There is more than one way to cook a turkey, just as there is more than one way to cook just about every other type of meat, but because there is some pressure on Thanksgiving to produce a big, beautiful bird for family and friends, it's hard to know whose advice to take when prepping the turkey for the big day. If you roast it, should you brine if first? Should it be braised? Can you cook it in the microwave?

To answer these questions, you can take a look at the Turkey for the Holidays guide from the University of Illinois. They cover everything from turkey-cooking techniques, which includes guides on eleven good techniques and reasons to avoid a few bad ones, to turkey nutritional information and turkey history and trivia. Aside from the cooking techniques, which might be the most useful tips on the site for cooks, the turkey carving instructions are going to be helpful even if you buy your bird. The site seems to be a great Thanksgiving resource overall, and anything that helps decrease holiday stress really is something to be thankful for

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ryan

11-14-2006 @1:47PM ryan said... The latest Good Eats just did a whole episode on the do's and dont's of deep frying a turkey, lots of good instruction in the episode. I imagine it may repeat before bird day, if not you could probably find the episode via some less than legal online methods.
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MJ

11-14-2006 @3:39PM MJ said... cook turkey with breast side down and you will have moist white meat everytime!
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Eddiegirl

11-14-2006 @5:47PM Eddiegirl said... Three years ago I bought a grill with a rotisserie rack. Hubby thought we should use it to cook our Thanksgiving turkey. I thought he was nuts, but why stand in his way--it was he that wanted to brave the cold. The turkey turned out perfectly, and it's the way to go for a moist, beautiful, flavorful, golden brown turkey. Just lovely.
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