has anyone ever cooked a turkey from frozen?

[littleredsquirrel]

not sure I'd want to risk it for the first time on Christmas day but apparently its possible and safe

No. Never. Let it defrost first or it'll be raw inside.

I would absolutely NOT risk it. Salmonaella poisoning is NOT funny. (speaking as someone who spent 3 days in hospital with it).

No way. If you want to try out that idea, do it another time of year and check very carefully that it is piping hot all the way through. I think you'd probably have to overcook the outside to have the middle safe anyway. But definitely don't try this idea out when you have the family there waiting on their Christmas dinner, as you'll be too tempted to think "Oh I'm sure it will be fine..." and give them all food poisioning as an extra Christmas present they'd rather have done without!

Noooo, I'm sure that's not a good idea, defrost it

Absolutely no way would I do this! Who are these people who say it is possible and safe? And why would you want to do this anyway?

Not and lived

Why do you want to cook it when it's frozen?

Frozen chicken nuggets = OK
Frozen turkey = very sick people

I've cooked a turkey from frozen - 24 hours at 7 degrees Celcius, followed by 2 hours at 180.

Just saw that it was possible and wondered whether anyone had done it. It apparently keeps the meat moist. if you google it there are various american websites saying its safe and can actually reduce the potential for food poinsoning.

I won't chance it at Christmas though!

It's probably possible, but the only way to ensure it's not going to poison you is to cook it for so long that it would be like cardboard on the outside. Mind you, turkey tastes like cardboard at the best of time, I find

I absolutely would not do it. You need to defrost all fowl before cooking. You could defrost in the microwave if you had too.

Wow, just seen your post Heroine. Did you really mean 24 hours at SEVEN degrees celcius. How did you get your oven to go that cold, or did you mean 70? Would be very interested.

OP, if you need to defrost it and don't want to do it in the microwave, you can defrost by keep dunking it in warm water and trying to move it around. Does take a long time, but does work.

Lol heroine. I wonder how you got your oven to 7 degrees celsius unless you have a fridge-cooker combo!

um actually its my borken fridge that never quite stays at 6 degrees! (that or its the kitchen at night... :)

NB borken isn't a german brand.. BTW...:o

Surely cooking at 7 degrees for 24 hours is, er, defrosting it?

yeees! it was a JOKE!!! but the serious point being - don't oven cook from fully frozen...

i have never done but my mum did once - it was on vvv low all night, to defrost it, then turned up to cook it on the day.

however it means

• you're pretty much just using your oven to defrost the turkey, rather than cooking straight away
• you can't put any stuffing in it
• iirc it was so soft & moist it fell apart when my dad tried to carve it (resulting in much swearing)

i assume you think you may not have space to store it in the fridge beforehand? you can always just take it out to defrost overnight, though in current temps it could actually be too cold to thoroughly defrost, you may need to keep rinsing it with warm water anyway.

OR, if you have a really big bucket, you could soak it in brine for a day before, which you could keep in a garage as the brine would stop it freezing. (nigella has a recipe)