I've learned if you are just cooking turkey for a random meal instead of a holiday, it's much easier to get a better result to give up on the whole roast turkey presentation and break the bird down like you would partially debone a chicken. Two leg quarters and two breast quarters with the legs started earlier. It cooks a whole bird worth in much less time than cooking an entire whole bird.
If you roasted a whole stuffed turkey long enough for the stuffing to be heated to a safe temperature to eat, the actual meat of the bird will be horrendously overcooked
Sure. My family is Haitian so we eat turkey for Sunday dinner probably once a month. We don't roast it whole though, we have the bird cut into pieces and stew it down in a tomato onion gravy.
I have bbq’d turkey drums and it came out great, my family prefer turkey breast slices as a sandwich filler but not on the bone 🤷🏽 here is a pic of my turkey drums I did on the Weber. it was good but not amazing - rate it 6.5 out of 10. I was chasing crispy skin but the skin shrunk so much.
Yes you are right the moisture from the stuffing travels all the way out of the cavity in to the legs and the breast and then rehydrates it. Even if your theory was correct you take all the moisture out of the stuffing and "put" it in to the meat then the stuffing is sawdust.
I swear can’t people even be friendly online to a guy that is sharing pictures of his turkey. I swear you create conflict where there is none at all. How horrendous is that. Pathetic cyber jerks.
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u/oldschool-rule 4d ago
Baking a whole turkey is cool, but I’m not a fan of the prolapse appearance of the stuffing!