How To Thaw A Turkey

I'm going to show you today how to thaw turkey, some different methods of ways of doing it. In a normal household, we have a frozen turkey, not to sure what to do. Now, if you remember this key point, per pound of meat is one hour of thawing, very good sort of tip there.

How are we going to do it? There's quite a few ways we're going to do it. So, in a sink, fill it up with cold water, never, never hot. It's always going to be cold if you have a whole turkey.

So, remember if you've got a six pound turkey, we're allowing one hour per pound so that's how it works. So what we're looking to do is fill up a sink or a bucket with cold water, try to push the turkey or the chicken into the water with some kind of weight and obviously after six hours, if it's six pounds in weight, then take it out and it will be ready. That's what we're looking at, per pound is per one hour.

So that's one way of doing it. The other way of doing it is actually leave it for 48 hours in the fridge on a tray to let it thaw out completely naturally but always in a controlled environment. Never leave anything to thaw out in room temperature; it has to be in a controlled temperature - very important.

So the best way I would say to you is a sink or a bucket and it's thawing your meat in cold water, per pound one hour. So like I've said, if you've got six pounds, it's six hours and that's what will get you out of trouble from thawing meat. And that's how I thaw my turkey. .