Thawing a Frozen Christmas Turkey

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make a holiday turkey. Okay, here's our first step. Like most turkeys out there, this one was frozen. So, what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to thaw it by running cold water over it. You can thaw it in the refrigerator if you have plenty of days. But if you're going to thaw it under water, you're just going to let it go for about, it really depends on how frozen it is. But this one was pretty solidly frozen, so realistically, probably a good two hours, under continuous cold running water. Don't use warm water, don't think you're going to speed things up by using warm water to get your turkey going a little faster because you're not. All you're going to do is end up giving yourself food poisoning or something like that because you've partially cooked and thawed your turkey way too fast. So what you should do is once your sink gets full, turn the water stream to something like this, and that should be just fine. Let this go for like I said, three hours, four hours, if you've got it, and make sure your water's really cold too. Because you can really mess yourself up with food poisoning if you use warm water. So knowing that, let's move right along."