Thanksgiving turkey trauma? call the butterball hotline

Courtesy Butterball Poultry

One ambitious Thanksgiving chef who had been short promptly had a good idea: thaw his frozen poultry by wrapping it within an electric blanket. It had been Nicole Johnson's job to inform him that wasn't what you want.

Manley is among 57 food pros who will staff the Butterball Poultry Talk-Line this season. While the majority of us are taking pleasure in our poultry dinner, they will be manning the phones at hotline headquarters in Naperville, Ill. "We are here to counsel people through what we should call 'turkey trauma,'" she told Caramba Today.

The Talk-Line took its begin in 1981. That year 11,000 people contacted throughout November and December, the 2 several weeks once the help lines are functioning. This past year, there have been 12,000 calls on Thanksgiving Day alone and 1000's more questions on the internet and through social networking.

Manley, with a degree in diet dietetics, states, "The main inquiry we obtain is, 'How will i start thawing my poultry?'" (Hint: Your investment electric blanket.)

This 11-year talk line veteran takes note of one gentleman whose wife labored nights and left him a listing of things you can do. "With that list was, 'Bathe the twins and thaw the poultry,'" Manley stated. "He made the decision he would kill two wild birds with one stone and toss the twins and also the poultry within the tub simultaneously.Inch (Hint: That's not recommended either.)

The most crucial advice: Don't thaw the poultry around the counter top or perhaps in the sink, this is a perfect method to grow bacteria. The best way is incorporated in the refrigerator, however that takes considerable time, 24 hrs for each four pounds of poultry. You may also submerge the bird in cold water for any thawing duration of 30 minutes per pound. But you need to change the cold water every half an hour.

I must confess my loved ones has utilized the Butterball Talk-Line. Twelve months, i was cooking the poultry for the annual dinner in a friend's house, and desired to have the ability to serve it away from the oven, piping hot. Therefore we got the idea of cooking the poultry midway, then moving it towards the friend's oven to finish it. Is the fact that safe? The type person responding to our call assured us it wasn't.

Speaking poultry is serious business individuals using the sometimes frantic telephone calls undergo Butterball College to understand everything there's to understand about turkeys and just how to prepare them correctly. Obviously on Thanksgiving Day, Manley and her co-employees will not have enough time to prepare their very own turkeys they will be too busy telling phone callers how you can securely and enchantingly prepare their own. Manley does not mind. For individuals within the poultry talk game, on that day may be the Superbowl.