Baked Turkey Recipe

The Food Lab's Definitive Guide to Buying, Prepping, Cooking, and Carving Your Holiday Turkey


This is from Serious Eats. It includes spatchcocking the bird, dry brining, and using a probe meat thermometer which are all crucial to the perfect Thanksgiving turkey.

You don't get the Norman Rockwell presentation of a full bird but it gives the most even cooking and in turn best results.

Thank you.

My favorite time of year around here (followed closely by crawfish threads)

Just do this LINK

Although will say spatchcocked bird also good way to go. Either way I’m team dry brine.