The UT Extension office offers safe holiday cooking tips when cooking turkey. More details here.

The UT Extension office offers safe holiday cooking tips when cooking turkey.

More details here.

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In the in the measuring device outside the and will be when it reaches 160 165 which is that magic number once you get it out ... on you still measuring a big not going to be 165 all over the flight the court as part of the rest you marked your ended in the innermost part by in the wings to ... try to three measurements to make sure this could relate what 65 internal magic ... temperature that means all the bacteria could you can cook it to have higher than longer ... but that's when it starts to dr out ... quickly june 10 last line of folksy turkey many days after think giving what is the cutoff point to think ... that's enough turkey ... you get it in the refrigerator two hours at room temperature and indeed in it the last 3 to day in the refrigerator back to the ground in the freezer is the best place for 26 ... months of good old ... i think you jim hewitt she has an extension agent with university of tennessee juniper like more information where the find you ... the hamilton dotson if he thought he was ... taking section on our webpage ... rate of ... against you 20 we have much more