How to cut a whole turkey to prepare for roasting.

Several years ago I started cutting my Thanksgiving turkey into large pieces and roasting those. The bird cooks faster and more evenly. It is easier to roast, because it isn't stuffed. It is easier to slice when it is cooked, because you are working with much smaller pieces.

Instead of stuffing the whole bird, I take part of the turkey back and place it on top of my stuffing that I have placed in a large casserole. It cooks in a separate oven at the same time as the turkey is roasted, or if you only have one oven, you could cook it ahead, and keep it warm while you roast the turkey.

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• Cut-up
• turkey
• Thanksgiving
• roast

[sfjinx]

This was so helpful! Thank you so much for posting. My first time cutting up a turkey went pretty well. Ended up using scissors more than my knife as I didn't want to have a t-day "incident" and end up in the ER.

[MsGin1969]

Good video. Good ideas. Might I suggest you get a cleaver, tho. Would make parts of this a little easier for you! :)

[1ChevyGuy375]

Thanks, this was what I was looking for. Nicely done too.

[RealityIsTheNow]

This is an excellent idea, since of course light and dark meat cook to perfection at different temps. Never seen your method before, thanks very much for posting :)