Anonymous
11/24/2023 22:37
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:13-15 minutes per pound, w some variability dependin on 325 or 350 degrees. So 18 pounds would be 4 1/2 hours or so.
I’ve always read 20 min per pound
Stuffed or unstuffed? Unstuffed is 3.5-4 hours for 18lbs.
Is that assuming you also don’t have as many casserole dishes as possible also stuffed in the oven?
Anonymous
11/24/2023 20:58
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:13-15 minutes per pound, w some variability dependin on 325 or 350 degrees. So 18 pounds would be 4 1/2 hours or so.
I’ve always read 20 min per pound
Stuffed or unstuffed? Unstuffed is 3.5-4 hours for 18lbs.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 20:51
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Anonymous wrote:Mine was a clean-up fiasco. Several years ago, my mother was trying to help by putting away cleaned dishes. She accidentally put a full bowl of mashed potatoes into our china cabinet, which we rarely open, in the dining room, where we rarely go. I entered the room about a month later due to a faint odor, which grew stronger as I approached the cabinet. I swore a mouse had died inside. No, instead, I flung open the cabinet and encountered a vile stench. I opened the bowl and it was crawling with a deep green, shimmering mold.
This is hilarious. Surely not in the moment, but laughing about this one wouldn’t get old
Anonymous
11/24/2023 20:01
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Anonymous wrote:Relative used the same cutting board for raw meat as appetizer veggie tray. Half the house got diarrhea.
You win so far
Anonymous
11/24/2023 18:48
Subject: Re:Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
In making a Cajun flavored turkey we injected it with liquid garlic and DD wanted to help. Well, it exploded, all over her head. DH and I cleaned up the kitchen while my sister took DD for a bath and washed her hair. Tasted great though!
Anonymous
11/24/2023 18:45
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Our only disappointment was that the rolls did not rise, at all. Left them in a warm kitchen for hours and they just sat there like little golf balls. Guess I should have tested the yeast first. But nobody really cared than much about skipping the rolls, so I wouldn't call it a disaster.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 18:36
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
One year I stopped up the sink drain with sweet potato peelings. DH was not happy to have to fix the sink in the middle of cooking. Trash can peeling only now.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 17:17
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:13-15 minutes per pound, w some variability depending on 325 or 350 degrees. So 18 pounds would be 4 1/2 hours or so.
I’ve always read 20 min per pound
OMg. For goodness’ sake, please go buy a meat thermometer both of you! No wonder there is a thread about how the Thanksgiving meal isn’t worth it. Serving shoe leather, it wouldn’t be.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 16:46
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
It should have been but wasn’t. Bought a 30 lb Turkey instead of the 20lber I usually get (order online and then pick up - must have clicked the wrong size). It didn’t fit in my roasting pan - looked like it was lounging in a bath tub. I didn’t think there was anyway I’d get it cooked through without drying it out or it would be tough because of its size. Other than taking a little over five hours to cook it was surprisingly moist and flavorful.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 16:22
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Anonymous wrote:13-15 minutes per pound, w some variability depending on 325 or 350 degrees. So 18 pounds would be 4 1/2 hours or so.
I’ve always read 20 min per pound
Anonymous
11/24/2023 14:56
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
I was slicing a half glazed ham on a board when the doorbell rang. I put down the knife to answer the door, leaving the carving fork in the meat. Five minutes later, I come back to the kitchen and...NO HAM. Perplexed, I see the fork on the floor. Slinking slowly away with what looked like pink earmuffs from the back was our poodle. Big Hunter thought he scored an easy kill.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 14:21
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
13-15 minutes per pound, w some variability depending on 325 or 350 degrees. So 18 pounds would be 4 1/2 hours or so.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 14:19
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Including Epicurious, Bon Appetit, and BH&G.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 14:16
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Pretty much every cooking website disagrees w you.
Anonymous
11/24/2023 13:31
Subject: Share your Thanksgiving cooking disasters here
Anonymous wrote:An 18-pound turkey is supposed to cook 4-4 1/2 hours at 325. I doubt that an extra half hour rendered it inedible.
You are cooking your turkey WAY too long. 3 hours tops if you want a moist bird.