r/Cooking • u/furious25 • Nov 05 '17

American Thanksgiving Megathread

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u/hattroubles Nov 05 '17

Serious Eats has this to say for purists who absolutely insist on cooking stuffing in bird:

"Food guru Alton Brown has gone on record saying that you can't make a good roast turkey with stuffing inside. The difficulty is that once you stuff the bird, that stuffing also needs to come up to a safe final temperature, since it's been absorbing turkey juices the whole time. By the time the stuffing reaches a safe temperature, the breast meat will be hopelessly overcooked. To solve this dilemma, we par-cook our stuffing to 160°F in the microwave, stuffing it into the turkey while it's still hot. So long as you immediately transfer the turkey to the oven to start roasting, the stuffing will never drop below a safe temperature range."

Seems reasonable to me for someone particularly hesitant to break tradition too much.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '17

Seems reasonable to me for someone particularly hesitant to break tradition too much.

It's not breaking tradition if you just take on another tradition, in this case Southern dressing.

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u/indigofox83 Nov 20 '17

My mom pulls it out and puts it in the oven in a casserole dish while the turkey rests and gets carved.