How To Prepare a Turkey for Roasting

This step-by-step guide will help you truss and stuff a turkey to roast for your holiday meal.

Preparing a Turkey
To prepare a turkey for roasting, first remove the bag of giblets and the neck from the turkey. Rinse the turkey with cold water, and pat dry with paper towels.
Lift the wing tips up and over the back of the turkey, and tuck under the bird.
Loosen the skin from the turkey breast without totally detaching the skin. Rub butter (or a mixture of butter, salt, and pepper) evenly over the turkey breast. Some turkey recipes call for placing herbs under the skin of the turkey before it bakes. To do this, carefully place the herb leaves evenly under the skin on each side of the breast, and replace the skin. When you are not stuffing the turkey, place pear or apple halves, onion halves, and garlic (or other ingredients specified in the recipe) into the cavity of the turkey. If you are stuffing the turkey, spoon the stuffing mixture into the cavity. Don't pack it too tightly because it needs room to expand during roasting. For food safety reasons, it's really better to bake the stuffing in a separate pan rather than inside the turkey because the stuffing mixture may prevent the inside of the turkey from reaching the safe temperature. If there is a flap of fat attached to the body cavity, trim it off, or fold it up into the cavity.
If you want to tie the legs together, cut a 12-inch piece of kitchen twine and fold it in half so that you have a loop at one end. Run the double strand of string underneath the legs at the ankles and bring it up over the legs, inserting the loose ends of the string into the loop. Separate the loose ends of the string and pull tightly, making sure that one leg is resting on top of the other. Loop the string around the legs again, and tie the string into a knot or a bow.

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[DonutPaste]

thumbs up if you came here cuz you were bored

[GhostFearMe]

why is it that these vids always hav a creepyness to them

[mikayla12223]

lol cavity of the turkey. come on! anyone?

[DonutPaste]

is that shit at 0:10

[ladeestar]

@GingerbreadXD did you just come to this video to post that? it's obvious that it's about dead animals so why'd you click on it?

[GingerbreadXD]

i feel  sad when i see dead animals =(

[AngieeBabyy81]

Yeah I thought I was the only one who thought that lol

She looked like she was massaging the thing.

[eliden]

look how she covers the turkey... thats just creepy...

[Anniebear561]

mmm bag of giblits lol.

~Anne

[hiiamrick]

Wow, I never knew about loosening the skin over the breast.