Post-Thanksgiving Turkey EMERGENCY. Help!!!

[Cats Against Frist]

I was cooking a 13-lb. bird, and my oven quit working somewhere between the 1/2 hour to one hour mark. What would be the best way to cook it? We have a microwave with a convection oven, and the stovetop still works. Way too cold to grill. Advice?? Please. It's major suckage.

[Cathyclysmic]

1. Is there a neighbor home you can bug?

:shrug:

Maybe just cook it there?

[Akoto]

2. If it's big enough to hold the turkey ...

You can cook it in the convection oven. You'll want to read the instructions just in case, maybe, but I've done it before.

[Cats Against Frist]

3. This is a disaster. We're cutting it up, right now, because

either way, it won't fit into the pot OR the microwave. Maybe I'll do half in the pot, half in the microwave. That's an idea. Did it turn out OK?

[Akoto]

5. Well ...

It turned out alright in the convection oven for me, but I wasn't doing it cut up, either. You need to be careful about making sure that it's done, though. Undercooked poultry can be dangerous.

You want to check the temperature in the deepest part of the breast or thigh. Needs to be 170F in the breast or 180F in the thigh. I usually check in the thigh. Of course, since you're chopping it up, it may cook faster.

[fortyfeetunder]

4. It's never too cold to grill

But your problem is you need that baby cooking before you have the food poisoning risk.

Got a crock pot big enough to hold it?

Otherwise stick it in the microwave. You can microwave a turkey and you can use the convection element to brown it. Now.

Drawback to microwaving is the unevenness in the cooking so you can rotate and take temperature every 30 minutes or so.

Good luck!

[Cats Against Frist]

10. We're chopping it up as fast as we can

I think we're going to boil half, and do half in the convection. No crock pot.

[fortyfeetunder]

12. Good Luck!

You will at least have cooked turkey in some form!! Good luck!!!

[auntAgonist]

6. Is it possible

to cut the turkey into pieces and cook it that way in the convection oven?

[histohoney]

7. DO not panic

Take the bird apart. Legs, wings. Cut the breasts off.
You can
1. In a large skillet at med-heat
warm up about 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil and skin side down put in your breast in first and cover the pan with lid or foil.
cook about 10-15 min and turn the meat re cover. keep turning and checking untill done (no red jucies come out.) Take the breasts out put them on a plate and cover them with foil.
Put about legs and thighs in put cook for 15min befor turning. Use same method as above to finish. Be sure to use that pan to make your gravy in.
Good luck.

[Akoto]

8. Cats, if you're still here ...

You might want to check your breaker box. It could be that one of the breakers tripped, in which case your oven would stop working. It's just a thought I wanted to offer. :)

[histohoney]

9. Good thinking Akoto

That's happened to me before too.

[Cats Against Frist]

11. Stovetop still works -- not the oven, but I'll have bf check.

Thank you!