So most years I buy a fresh turkey which is picked up on Christmas Eve and put into the fridge ready for cooking the following morning however as I'm feeding a small army of guests I couldn't justify the cost of a fresh turkey big enough to feed them all. Instead I bought a frozen turkey at a fraction of the price.
I have just looked up my cooking times for so called turkeyou and also defrost times (as I have never defrosted something this big) and everywhere is saying that it should be defrosted in the fridge for 3-4 hours per kg. Well I have never defrosted in the fridge as we usually have fresh food. But I have now missed my deadline for defrosting the turkey in the fridge as it should have been in there early hours of the morning.
I stupidly thought that turkey could just be left out in the kitchen from tomorrow morning but everywhere I have looked has said that the turkey cannot be defrosted in temperatures higher than 20° as there is a risk of salmonella and I have nowhere else cooler that I could leave it.
So what do I do? The turkey weighs 10.20kg.
Thanks all