On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:37:55 -0600, Sky >
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>On 11/20/2011 10:33 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> Alton Brown said tonight that you should calculate one day on the
>> bottom shelf of the fridge for each 4 pounds of frozen turkey.
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>Be sure to include some sort of container - er, drip pan - to use when
>thawing that critter in the fridge! Just today, I learned the hard way
>when thawing a 'butt' roast and didn't include that 'drip pan'! Talk
>about a mess - all sorts of unwanted gravitational bloody 'drippings' in
>the (secondary - whew!) fridge! And the roast was even enclosed in a
>(leaky!) plastic grocery bag, too! Oh well - Live 'n learn ;>
>
>Sky
A learning/teaching moment!
Janet US