Why was the turkey so bad? I’ve never seen anything like it in all my years of cooking. One side of it was cooked and the other was completely raw. How do you even achieve such a result?
No, it wasn’t a frozen turkey.
Yes, I used a thermometer.
This is a mystery that will haunt me forever.
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Is there something wrong with the oven maybe?
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That’s the only explanation but the thermometer said the internal temperature was perfect.
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“Why was the turkey so bad?”
You shouldn’t shy away from showing people the results, someone else’s cooking fails can actually be inspiring. There’s a youtube channel just about that, an everyday guy trying to carry off recipes by Julia Childs et al. with some truly glorious failures along the way…. one of my favorites was cleaning vanilla beans and then throwing the insides away and realizing that wasn’t supposed to happen mid recipe….
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I would guess that your oven developed a cold spot? And turkeys are so large that they are very sensitive to cold spots. (I rotate my turkey while roasting to help compensate for this possibility.)
Do you have a plan to fix? I suggest a “slow stew in its own juices” approach. Take either a large stock pot or a slow cooker, add onion, celery, a very small bit of chicken broth, and the turkey and let it go on a very low heat for a few hours. The parts that are already cooked with just gently stew and release juices until the raw parts catch up. And shredded/stewed turkey is delicious.
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It was a woke turkey.
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Half of it was so awake it was practically alive.
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Your oven probably is at fault. Have you ever cooked anything as big as this turkey before? How big was it? Maybe it was too big for your oven.
Did you defrost it properly? My refrigerator has spots in the back that will freeze items. Maybe it was partially frozen when you put it in the oven.
Were you able to save it? you could turn it into soup.
Merry Christmas!
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It’s not my oven. My brother-in-law says he recently fixed the oven. I’m very curious about the nature of the fix because the result is scary.
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I’d say he definitely didn’t fix it well, or fixed something else and missed the problem.
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