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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]cold water bath to defrost faster - 30 minutes per lb. from frozen[/quote]

Keep the water cold and change it out every 30 minutes

Once the outside is defrosted, put it back into the fridge.

You can defrost the inner core/neck tomorrow morning by running cold water into the cavity.[/quote]

Much easier method: Turkey in a plastic garbage bag, put in a cooler. (I'm assuming a turkey wrapped in plastic inside the netting from the supermarket, I have no idea how heritage turkeys are handled by producers.)F ill with cold water. Keep in mind when you submerge the turkey water level will come up so leave space for that. The you [b]must[/b] submerge the turkey. This year I had a 22 pound turkey, cooler was big enough to accommodate a 9 by 13 cake pan, I put a cast iron frying pan inside that--sometimes it's tricky to set up the weight because the turkey is both buoyant and rounded. Close the cooler. A guest was contributing the turkey and it hadn't come out of her freezer until Monday night and thawed barely a quarter inch in by Wednesday afternoon. Went in the cooler 6 pm Wednesday, by 10 am I just had to get the ice out of the cavity by running cold water into the cavity, then making sure the area around the cavity was not frozen.

I certainly have never had a sink big enough to dedicate to cold water turkey thawing, or emptying and refilling some big container. This way the water stays barely above freezing (colder than anything in my fridge) and I'm dealing with large amounts of water just twice.

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