How Long to cook a turkey per pound
How Long to cook a turkey per pound, The turkey roasting time per pound not only determines the taste and flavor of your turkey, but also determine its safety and the latter should be more important than the former.
But how long to cook a turkey per pound should be determined not only by the turkey roasting time, but also the oven temperature. Obviously, the higher the oven temperature, the shorter time you need to roast your turkey.
Generally speaking, the oven temperature should not be lower than 325 o F. Some turkey recipes use an initial temperature of 500 o F at which a 15-pound turkey is roasted for 30 minutes and then cooked at 350 o F for another 2 to 2.5 hours. But that it not definite. You need to watch the inner temperature of the turkey.
As always, the temperature inside the breast or the stuffing or the coldest spot in the turkey should reach a minimal of 165 o F no matter how long you cook a turkey. If you choose to stuff your turkey, combine the dry and wet ingredients just before you cook them. And then fill the turkey’s cavity loosely so that heat can penetrate into the stuffing easily saving some time. That is the USDA advice for the safety concerns.
Turkey roasting times can be decided by following the timetables below which are recommended by the USDA. The same time schedules can be used to decide how long to cook a brined turkey (breast) per pound.
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How Long to cook a turkey per pound was first posted on November 26, 2009 at 9:28 am.
