I made a tool to make it trivial to time your turkey thawing.
I whipped this up today because I am always having to look it up and figure out when I am supposed to put my turkey from the Freezer to the Fridge. I plan to pretty it up over the next few days but hopefully this will be helpful to others (me too since I am cooking a turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year). I am open to suggestions too if you have any.
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So I should have moved to 100 pound turkey from the freezer to the fridge on Oct. 30th? Dang...
No, it is based on a joking discussion we had on reddit ages ago. Someone joked about a similar gargantuan turkey that would need ages to thaw, and we started calculating how big it must have been in real life. It also had way more than "just" 100 pounds, and would have been around three meters tall according to our back-of-the-envelope math, IIRC.
This is great, thanks!!
"Guesswork"? It's a pretty simple formula, IIRC...
"Thaw time in the fridge requires about 24 hours for every 5 pounds in a refrigerator set at about 40 degrees F (5 degrees C). Thaw time in cold water requires about 30 minutes per pound in cold water, refreshed every 30 minutes."
Does this work with chickens?
Asking for a friend. (Honest. I’m supposed to be doing a big batch of chicken and dumplings for a thing. Either the chicken is bigger than I recalled or… I’m an idiot. It’s in water so we should be good,)
As a side note: do not fry even partially frozen turkeys. Or if you do… record it and post it to YT.
I guess "GuessworK" was the wrong thing to say. More like googling formula, doing the math, then counting the days backward while looking at a calendar is more apt. It's really more whimsically convenient than anything. Like I said, I made this for me, but thought I would share it if it could be useful to someone else. Please feel free to not ever think about it again.
This is your alert to begin thawing your 32 pound turkey today! ;)