Cooking turkey this Thankgiving? Don't wash that bird!

Use a covered roaster. By all means use the thermometer to make sure, but the covered roaster keeps things as moist as moist as it can be. It also provides a huge margin of error as it cannot dry out.

"rinsing... can spray juices and any bacteria already there as far as three feet, coating surfaces with an unseen mist of yuck"

That's why I rinse, and get the Bird to where it needs to be- THEN I clean the sink area and every More..

But since it's thanksgiving, let's remember to be thankful and look on the bright side.

Sure, salomanella's a bad thing... unless you're on a weightloss program, and then all that loss of resolve is resolved by a loss More..