{"id":533,"date":"2008-11-22T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.wordpress.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-11-21T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T20:41:35","slug":"how-to-cook-a-thanksgiving-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/22\/how-to-cook-a-thanksgiving-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Cook A Thanksgiving Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had all good intentions of writing a nice long post on how I cook a turkey.\u00a0 I really did.\u00a0 But there are hundreds of sites online that do the same, so I thought I&#8217;d put together a small list of sites that contain videos, to help show and teach you how to cook a turkey.\u00a0 The videos are all aptly named &#8220;How to cook a turkey&#8221;..lol.<\/p>\n<p>Quickly, and without much more information, I cook a 13-15 pound turkey at 500F for 30 minutes, then lower the heat to 375F for 9 minutes per pound. \u00a0See Alton Brown&#8217;s version of the video below&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food Network: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/10-thanksgiving-turkey-tips\/video\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alton&#8217;s Browns 4 Part Series on Turkey (The best!!)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>5Min: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5min.com\/Video\/How-to-Cook-a-Turkey-Dorm-Edition-12250\" target=\"_blank\">How to Cook a Turkey &#8211; Dorm Edition <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google Video:<a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-8377642844852009949\" target=\"_blank\"> How To Cook A Turkey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Xomba: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xomba.com\/how_to_cook_a_perfect_thanksgiving_turkey_video_part_one\" target=\"_blank\">How To Cook A Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bxjFqtfJlMs\" target=\"_blank\">How to Cook Turkey: Part 1 &#8211; Prep and Roasting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CK3Vm37OIz8\" target=\"_blank\">How to Cook Turkey: Part 2 &#8211; All About the Gravy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DIY&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diygameplan.com\/how-to-cook-turkey-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">How To Cook A Turkey <\/a><\/li>\n<li>HowCasts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howcast.com\/videos\/64423-How-To-Cook-a-Quick-and-Easy-Perfect-Turkey\" target=\"_blank\">How To Cook a Quick and Easy Perfect Turkey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want more videos:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=how+to+cook+turkey+videos&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&amp;client=firefox-a\" target=\"_blank\"> Click here for Google Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have fun!!\u00a0 And let me know if you learned any thing that made a difference :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had all good intentions of writing a nice long post on how I cook a turkey.\u00a0 I really did.\u00a0 But there are hundreds of sites online that do the same, so I thought I&#8217;d put together a small list &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/22\/how-to-cook-a-thanksgiving-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[160,204,22,497,387,389],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thanksgiving","tag-food","tag-how-to-cook-thanksgiving-turkey","tag-misc","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}