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My Thanksgiving Turkey was a disaster due to my faulty kitchen thermometers. I had three digital meat thermometers and all three of them were trash. I tested those thermometers on both ice water and boiling water. All three of them failed miserably.
I admit that it was my fault for not testing my thermometers. Now that I look back, I was naive to trust cheap kitchen thermometers without testing them on my own.
I trashed all my thermometers and bought 3 new ones. I also bought 2 extra probes. They all passed my test. Moving forward, I will use two thermometers with probes at the same time to double check my progress. When I’m done with cooking, I will use the third thermometer to confirm my work.
And I shall test my thermometers every year, at least 1 month before Thanksgiving Day (rather than 1 day before Thanksgiving). I shall…
- Take temperature of ice water (a lot of ice and small amount of water to fill the gaps of the ice). – Temperature should read almost 32 F (0 C).
- Take temperature of boiling water. – It should read 212 F (100 C), or very close to it.
To redeem myself from Thanksgiving turkey disaster, I baked a Christmas turkey with my new thermometers. Finally, my turkey came out super-fantastic. Maybe Costco God blessed my turkey, because I bought the turkey from Costco this time.
I’m glad you baked another turkey! It would have been depressing if you waited another year to make one. Treat yourself!
Oh~ thank you, thank you.
I think this was my tenth year baking turkey alone. I lost count after 8 years or so.
This year (2019) I baked both the worst and the best turkey. Yes, waiting for next Thanksgiving would be depressing. Imagine that, 323 more days. Oh boy…
Anyway, my Christmas turkey was super-fantastic.