Doggone turkey still ain't thawed...

[SmokeALib]

Bought Sunday. Been in fridge since.
What the?
First time cooking as wife has stage 4 cancer and hasn't felt well this week.
Open to suggestions.
Thank you.

 

[Moonglow]

 

[1srelluc]

I suspect that it's mostly thawed, I bet you have an "iceberg" in the cavity. Remove it, rinse with cold water. Bake at 10 degrees lower than normal till the internal temp gets to where it needs to be.

 

[mudwhistle]

Bought Sunday. Been in fridge since.
What the?
First time cooking as wife has stage 4 cancer and hasn't felt well this week.
Open to suggestions.
Thank you.

Leave it out for about 3 hours or put it in some hot water in the sink and it'll be thawed out in no time.

Usually I thaw it out a day or two before Thanksgiving and then put in the fridge. Then start cooking it around 7am, and it's done by noon.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Bought Sunday. Been in fridge since.
What the?
First time cooking as wife has stage 4 cancer and hasn't felt well this week.
Open to suggestions.
Thank you.

Mine never completely thaws before I brine it the night before.
You can try hotter water but that might have the effect of cooking some of the outer portions of it.
Cool or maybe lukewarm water for an hour or two.

 

[Manonthestreet]

We quit cooking whole turkeys last yr. Too much hassle and waste.

 

[Foxfyre]

Bought Sunday. Been in fridge since.
What the?
First time cooking as wife has stage 4 cancer and hasn't felt well this week.
Open to suggestions.
Thank you.

It's probably thawed but if not submerge it in warm water in the sink for a bit and that should do the trick. Do get it in the oven right away then though as warm raw turkey can develop uglies pretty quickly.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Bought Sunday. Been in fridge since.
What the?
First time cooking as wife has stage 4 cancer and hasn't felt well this week.
Open to suggestions.
Thank you.

To me, if you have any kids, they should only be helping you with this meal considering what is already on your wife's plate, but if don't have kids and your wife was the one who always cooked the meal, she should be telling you what she always did when she cooked it, especially if she still wants the meal to be made this time.

God bless you and her and the rest of your family always!!!

Holly

P.S. I pray that your wife makes the right kind of recovery, but considering all that could be against her, you of course know more than I do, it shouldn't just be you who is there for her on this day.

 

[1srelluc]

DO NOT USE WARM WATER TO THAW POULTRY!!!!

 

[Thunk]

DO NOT USE WARM WATER TO THAW POULTRY!!!!

Correct! Use cold water.

Put a clean plate in the kitchen sink. Put the turkey on the plate...fill sink with COLD water.

It'll be thawed in an hour or 2.

If you don't want to use the sink...use a chest-cooler.

 

[Thunk]

Or you could run to the store & buy a rotisserie chicken

 

[SmokeALib]

To me, if you have any kids, they should only be helping you with this meal considering what is already on your wife's plate, but if don't have kids and your wife was the one who always cooked the meal, she should be telling you what she always did when she cooked it, especially if she still wants the meal to be made this time.

God bless you and her and the rest of your family always!!!

Holly

P.S. I pray that your wife makes the right kind of recovery, but considering all that could be against her, you of course know more than I do, it shouldn't just be you who is there for her on this day.

Thank you! Kids all grown with their own families..
But youngest daughter is home helping me!
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[SmokeALib]

Or you could run to the store & buy a rotisserie chicken

Heck yeah. But wife is kinda a traditionalist...
So I got 'er thawed using cold water in the sink - changing it every 30 minutes. Took about 3 hours but all good and in oven.

 

[petro]

We had that issue last night with the cavity still frozen.
Did the cool water for a while. Seems fine today and now in the roaster.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

We quit cooking whole turkeys last yr. Too much hassle and waste.

We split the difference. Just got a smaller turkey breast instead of the whole thing. Much less waste and more popular leftovers (for soups and salads).

 

[1srelluc]

We had that issue last night with the cavity still frozen.
Did the cool water for a while. Seems fine today and now in the roaster.

Yeah it takes a lot of thawing to melt the "iceberg" inside a whole turkey.

To save fridge space I used to thaw a whole turkey in a large Playmate cooler. It worked well.

The last few years I went to turkey breasts and they don't take-up that much room to thaw in the fridge.

 

[petro]

Yeah it takes a lot of thawing to melt the "iceberg" inside a whole turkey.

To save fridge space I used to thaw a whole turkey in a large Playmate cooler. It worked well.

The last few years I went to turkey breasts and they don't take-up that much room to thaw in the fridge.

We are feeding about 17 people, so we had to go big.
A 22 pounder.

 

[SmokeALib]

DO NOT USE WARM WATER TO THAW POULTRY!!!!

I believe this to be correct. It's a bacteria thing...

 

[0311]

Bought Sunday. Been in fridge since.
What the?
First time cooking as wife has stage 4 cancer and hasn't felt well this week.
Open to suggestions.
Thank you.

How big a bird My wife and I usually put the bird in fridge a week before the meal.

 

[mudwhistle]

Mine never completely thaws before I brine it the night before.
You can try hotter water but that might have the effect of cooking some of the outer portions of it.
Cool or maybe lukewarm water for an hour or two.

The trick is making sure the internal temp is roughly room temp before you stuff it in the oven.
Hot stuffing helps that make that happen.