Lori Hall Webboard User Reg: 06-12-2007
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We have always, for many generations, put the stuffing in the turkey. Now, everywhere you read, and on tv, they are saying you should not put the stuffing in the turkey because you might get sick! And if you do put it in there, you will have to cook the turkey so long that it will be all dried out. I'm taking a vote in our family to see if they want to get poisoned, or have dried out turkey this year!!
We roast the turkey in an oven bag here at my house and make Stove Top for the stuffing seperately. My hubby is the only one that really likes the stuffing anyway of the three of us.
Both. I make way to much stuffing to all fit in the bird, so I stuff it loosely, and cook the rest in a pan. Loosely is the key. And it's not the stuffing ingredients, it's the "juices" from the bird that soak into it they are warning about. But if you have cooked the bird all the way through then it would stand to reason the "juices" are also cooked. After all, those are the same juices you see in the bird and pan after cooking it without stuffing.
If you are worried about it, you can always pull the stuffing out of the bird towards the end, and finish it off in a pan in the oven. I've done that a few times, when the stuffing in the bird was a little to soggy for my tastes.
Another trick you can use for similar flavor is just to add some of the drippings from the turkey to the stuffing while it's baking in a pan, gives that "cooked in the turkey" flavor with the "cooked in a pan so I feel safer about it" feeling.
We are all a fan of the crunchy stuffing top (and very food born illness paranoid) here, so we make stuffin muffins and bake the stuffing in muffin tins. Mess-free for the kids and everyone gets some crunchy topping on their stuffing.
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Use a meat thermometer when the bird is cooked,test in a few spots of the stuffing while in the cavity, the stuffing temp should be 165 degrees if it’s inside the bird or out.
Stuff lightly.
I am glad my food safety courses come in handy on a dog forum.
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Quote: Tammy Moore
Use a meat thermometer when the bird is cooked,test in a few spots of the stuffing while in the cavity, the stuffing temp should be 165 degrees if it’s inside the bird or out.
Stuff lightly.
I am glad my food safety courses come in handy on a dog forum.
That 165 degrees is what all the chefs say is the problem. If you cook the turkey until the stuffing is 165, then the breast meat will be way overcooked and dried out. How come I don't ever remember hearing about people getting sick from stuffed turkeys all the years I was growing up? Everything is so complicated nowadays!!
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Quote: Amy VandeWeerd
We are all a fan of the crunchy stuffing top (and very food born illness paranoid) here, so we make stuffin muffins and bake the stuffing in muffin tins. Mess-free for the kids and everyone gets some crunchy topping on their stuffing.
After getting food poisoning two years in a row from my aunt's stuffed turkey, I have made Thanksgiving a "meat free" holiday when we travel to my aunt's. There is always plenty of food at my aunt's that I never really miss the meat.
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