To ask you about defrosting a turkey?

[BlackDaisies]

Ok so the wine has gone to my head a bit. I have a turkey defrosting in my fridge. It's pretty small and it's been in there since this morning. Good old Google reckons 24 -30 hours. But it's still like a ROCK in there Any good cooks out there with any advice? Do I take it out now for the night? Take it out in the morning for a few hours? Bung it in water in the morning? Or will any of that kill us all?... Tia for any help... Now where did I put that wine...

I would leave it out in the kitchen overnight as long as its not warm in there - not near a boiler/aga/radiator!

Much safer to do that and ensure it is properly defrosted than risk it not being properly cooked because it is still half frozen when you put it in the oven.

defrost overnight and then cook first thing tomorrow is my advice

I would take it out and put it somewhere not too warm (shed/conservatory?).

Take it out the fridge!!!!

Yes out of the fridge!

TKe it out if the fudge and out it on the kitchen work t. It should have defrosted by the morning.

Take it out of the fridge, and as soon as it's defrosted enough take the giblets out. That will speed it up a bit.

Mine (4kg) has been in the fridge since about 4pm yesterday and is still nowhere near defrosted

Ive taken it out. The heating is off so hopefull the room won't be too warm but it will defrost by the morning. Fingers crossed!!!

And don't worry about it going all bacteria-y. It won't and cooking will kill any stuff, don't worry.

Ah thanks. The stupid thing was it WAS a fresh one. Said 26th on it. Only I bought it on Friday and then got paranoid it would go off. (Flaming Google again with it's "only keep turkey in the fridge for 2 days" advice). Next year I'll go back to shopping last minute again. Though the trouble with that is they only seem to have £80 quid turkeys left on Christmas eve. Sigh. Think I'll get it out before I go to bed then and cook early :-) Thanks again and happy Christmas!

Order one form a butcher next year and just pick it up Christmas eve

Take it out of the fridge.

Take it out of fridge and leave on work top overnight. Put it on pieces of kitchen roll or a tray. It will stay frozen if you leave it in there. Even a pack of sausages don't defrost in fridge overnight!

My own personal, im not telling anyone to do it this way, Rule of thumb for defrosting: if it's off, it's off and if you put it in half-frozen then it's going to be worse. So take it out, put it on a pad of kitchen roll and leave it overnight in a cool place.

If it smells bad in the morning then don't eat it. But it wont.

Thanks for all the answers. Can I ask another question? Everywhere I read it says keep it in its original wrapper. Only I never. I CAN SEE ITS SKIN! Why does it advise this? It's out of the fridge now at least. But should I put it in a plastic bag? Good grief this is stressful.

Leave it on the work top that's where mine is, it will be fine. I bought mine in M&S a couple of weeks ago, went into Tesco today and loads of turkeys half price arrrrrh. I bought a turkey crown for the freezer!

Just leave it out on the kitchen top, it'll be fine

I do that with meat from the freezer all year round!!?

Don't worry about the original wrapper thing, it'll be fine, just leave it on the side to defrost

Thank you sooperdooper Will try to stop worrying now!

It'll be fine :) merry christmas!! X