Friday, November 14, 2008

Turkey prep goes technical

Cooking calculations and conversions from Butterball, that incidentally may be helpful with cooking turkeys, but are generally helpful as a cooking resource. There are also specific turkey-cooking tips and tricks, too: how long to thaw, portion calculators, how long to cook and even the turkey-talk hotline. An alternate to a suicide hotline. On Thanksgiving.

Another website, eatturkey.com, gives resources to cook your birdie in a convection oven/convection setting. The benefits, according to the site are that the turkey will "cook in less time with more even results when a convection oven is used. The convection oven circulates preheated air around the oven cavity for faster and more even cooking." The site has some other useful resources such as recipes for the average cook, cooking demonstrations (on every turkey variation you can dream: turkey chowder? grilled turkey chop? turkey meatloaf? and some other more "traditional" favorites...), and some seriously expert recipes (ie not for picky palates).

I would LOVE to find the perfect turkey recipe.

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