We cooked turkey for thanksgiving and had a few friends over this year. We've cooked turkey twice before without any problems but this year we screwed up twice. Well rather I screwed up twice. The first was that the bottom of the turkey wasn't fully cooked. I attribute this to our new convection oven. Convection cooking cooks things more uniformly regardless of the rack position and faster because of the better heat transfer. However, this didn't quite work because we were roasting in a v-rack where the bottom of the turkey was being blocked by the roasting pan. Next time, we'll either flip the turkey half way through or roast on a flat pan.
The other problem we had was that I didn't remove the giblets. Well the exact problem was that I didn't find them in the hole that I thought they'd be in. Instead I found a gravy packet which threw me off. I thought they had replaced the giblets with this gravy packet. Well turns out the giblets were actually in the other orifice. You can be sure that we'll never make this mistake again. The picture above is actually from thanksgiving in 2003 when we were in Boston.
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