Evasive Turkey Roasting Chart
I know of several ways to roast a turkey. But only one or two ways that actually yield a delicious, juicy bird. I was cruising the Boston Globe’s online Food section. What do you know. They have a roasted turkey recipe. Since I’m one always willing to learn something new or something old, yet effective, I clicked on the link. Look at it for yourself here.
Now I noticed the article was dated 2006. It’s not like I’m expecting a turkey recipe from 2007 to be irrelevant in 2007. The roasting method seemed pretty simple and straightforward, which is the typical methodology for cooking anything delicious. Three times the article refers to a chart for gauging the roasting time. Something that’s pretty important in my opinion. Anyone can season a bird and slap it in the oven. The mystical part of roasting a turkey is figuring out how damn long the thing needs to be in the oven, and at what temps and stuff.
The chart they are referring to is not found anywhere on that page! What the hell? If I had to guess, and I hate having to guess, I would say this article was originally published in the paper version of the Globe and reincarnated as a short article for the web a year later. Someone’s lazy ass did a simple cut-and-paste from some database (or maybe it was an automated system) and simply syndicated the article. But somehow forgot to, or intended to leave out the important roasting chart.
Typical, TYPICAL Boston Globe journalism for you. Lots of fluff that everyone knows and leaving out the things that we might actually need.
Yankees suck!
I keep a thermometer probe in the thickest part of the breast and let it tell me when the turkey is done. The charts are only helpful for planning the time you want to start cooking.