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Photo : Lost_in_the_Midwest ( Shutterstock ) Knowing when the turkey is “done” is the most anxiety-inducing part of cooking a turkey. You don’t want to food poison anyone, but you don’t want to serve dry, stringy meat (and shame) to you friends and family. A thermometer is imperative, but the little plastic “turkey timer” that comes stuck in your bird should be tossed directly into the trash. If you’ve been cooking turkeys for a while, you probably already know this, but first- time bird roasters might be tempted to lean on the built-in temperature indicator. The problem is that it sucks. It’s garbage. It’s not your friend. It is, however, a nifty little piece of technology; it’s just calibrated wrong. According to Cook’s Illustrated , it’s not that it doesn’t work, it just works at far too high of a temperature: A harmless compound with a known melting temperature is liquefied in the bottom of the timer device. A spring is compressed into the molten material as it cools and hard...

Photo : zoryanchik ( Shutterstock ) Wrestling a whole turkey body into a roasting pan (or   rather, onto a wire rack ), isn’t for everyone. Even I, a seasoned professional, have to steel myself for the gory moments of cutting through bone when I spatchcock a bird, and I would be totally OK with never having to smash in a breast bone again. If you have similar feelings about strong-arming poultry, it might be time for you to ditch the whole bird, and join me for a holiday turkey roulade. It’s still got the flavor and goodness of a home-roasted turkey, but it’s juicier , faster to make than cooking a whole bird, and allows you to avoid most of the grim details of deboning poultry. I t’s also damn fancy looking . If you’ve ever been impressed by a Swiss roll or had a slice of a holiday yule log , you’ve already got the concept. The idea is to roll a large, seamless piece of turkey around succulent filling, forming a log shape , and roast it. When you slice individual servings f...

Flipping a cake onto a wire rack is the easiest way to get it out of the pan, but it will come out upside down. That’s not that big of a deal, as you can flip it around with the clever use of a second wire rack. Remove the cake from the pan like you usually would—loosen the edges with a knife, cover the pan with a rack, then flip the whole thing over—then place a second rack over the exposed bottom of cake, and flip it over once more. https://www.tausiinsider.com/9-unexpected-ways-to-use-your-cooling-rack/?feed_id=325462&_unique_id=63f735c2d849e