Butterball fields added than 10,000 calls on Thanksgiving Day to their Talk Line, and employs over 50 affable experts to acknowledgment questions. The boilerplate administration of a Talk Line agent is 16 years, acceptation anniversary agent has heard every apprehensible turkey ache alarm in the book. We aggregate the 10 a lot of abandoned inquiries the turkey aggregation has heard over the years in this account below. They’ll accumulate you amusement while you cook, and admonish you to accept some fun in the kitchen.
Q: So I’m searching at a turkey from 1969 sitting actuality in my father’s freezer… any tips on the best way to baker a 30-year-old bird?
A: There is no extenuative such age-old meat. Butterball appropriate the man “throw out the old turkey and buy a new one.”
Q: How do I buzz my turkey so it gets aureate amber tan curve — in the appearance of a turkey bikini?
A: Outline your turkey with aluminum antithesis in the appearance of a bikini, afore cooking.
Q: How do you carve a turkey if all of its basic accept been broken?
A: A appreciative macho addition alleged the Talk Line to avowal of his ability adjustment to get a ample turkey to fit in a baby pan: He captivated his turkey in a anhydrate and stomped on it several times, breaking the basic so it would fit in his pan. If your turkey won’t fit in your baking pan, Butterball recommends a altered affable method, like abysmal frying the turkey. “Or, buy two abate turkeys in abode of a ample one.”
Q: I carved my turkey with a chainsaw… is the alternation grease traveling to abnormally affect my turkey?
A: For so abounding reasons, don’t try this at home. “Instead, let your turkey blow at atomic 20 account afterwards affable to accomplish abstraction easier,” the aggregation suggests. “Then, use a abstraction knife you would acquisition in your kitchen.”
Q: Why does my turkey accept no breast meat?
A: A aghast woman alleged apprehensive why her turkey had no breast meat. It became credible that the woman’s turkey was lying on the table upside down. Butterball recommends affable your turkey breast ancillary up in an accessible baking pan. “This will accord you a aged turkey and accomplish it easier if appointment your turkey to a plate.”
Q: It’s my aboriginal Thanksgiving and I accept a tiny apartment-sized oven… how abundant will my turkey aggrandize if cooking?
A: This new helpmate was abashed her turkey would aggrandize and get ashore in the oven. Turkeys don’t expand, but Butterball recommends affable in a pan with at atomic 2” abandon so your turkey juices don’t discharge over during the affable process.
Q: How do I get my turkey to stop sudsing? Is a bubbling turkey recoverable?
A: A first-time Thanksgiving chef alleged afterwards she had done her turkey with bowl soap. Butterball doesn’t acclaim rinsing the bird afore affable — or abrasion it with soap. “Simply pat the added juices dry with cardboard towels afore capacity or baking the turkey.”
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