Turkey Temperature Tips Infographic
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How to Reheat Leftover Turkey
Perhaps the only thing better than eating moist, flavorful turkey on Thanksgiving is enjoying moist and flavorful turkey the day after.
Thanksgiving: Cold Water Thawing
Thawing a turkey can be approached two ways. Ideally, you’d want to thaw your bird in a fridge set to 37°F, but that takes days. If it’s Thanksgiving morning and your bird is still frozen, your options are limited.
Heritage Turkey: Cooked!
Chef Dan Souza at America’s Test Kitchen ordered a half dozen heritage birds from farms across the country and spent days perfecting the cooking technique that guarantees a moist and flavorful heritage turkey.
A More Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner: Heritage Turkeys
Lisa McManus and the staff at America’s Test Kitchen took painstaking efforts to taste test heritage birds against mass-produced supermarket turkeys to find out if they really do taste great enough to command their premium price. Here’s what they found.
Turkey Meat: White vs. Dark
Have you ever stopped to considered why poultry has both white and dark meat, why the two taste different, and why they have to be cooked to different temperatures? Food Scientist Harold McGee says it has everything to do with the different kinds of muscle fibers and the particular kind of work that each is designed for.