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It’s time to turn to the second method Butterball recommends: cold water thawing. Here's what to do: Take a dip: Submerge your turkey fully, breast side down, in cold water (not hot!).
For every full day in the fridge, four pounds of turkey will thaw.” This means that a 16-pound turkey, which is the most commonly purchased size, will need at least four days in the fridge to thaw.
Butterball and most professionals recommend thawing a frozen turkey in the refrigerator. This can take several days or up to a week, depending on the weight of the bird.
To compare the cook-from-frozen bird to a regular turkey, I also roasted a thawed Butterball at the same time. A thawed turkey of approximately the same size took three hours and 15 minutes in a ...
12-pound turkey: 2 to 3 days of thawing in the refrigerator. 14-pound turkey: 2 to 3 days of thawing in the refrigerator. 16-pound turkey: 3 to 4 days of thawing in the refrigerator. 18-pound ...
The amount of time it takes to thaw a frozen turkey depends on its size. For every four or five pounds, it will take 24 hours to thaw in the refrigerator, according to the USDA.
The experts at Butterball say that you should allocate a day for every four pounds of turkey if you're keeping it in the fridge. That means if you're working with a 16 pound bird, you need to set ...
“Rotate the turkey and change the cold water every 30 minutes to keep the turkey at a safe temperature during the thawing process,” Carlyle recommends. Estimate about 30 minutes per pound of ...