turkey disaster!!!!

kimmy1984

ok, so at about 5 today i got the turkey out of the freezer to defrost, thinking i were giving it more than enough time to ....then i read the instructions....45 HOURS!!!!!!..... what am i going to do, dont wanna be putting it in the bath to defrost like on royal family christmas special last year!!! lol

kimmy1984

oops...royle family i meant

robpw2

45 hours how big is it lol ... could you borrow the tardis apparently its stuck in snow ?


do you have any other meat ? or could you postpone christmas dinner till saturday ?

BrownGirl

Try putting your turkey (still in wrapper) in cold water (in a bucket or washing up bowl etc). Change the water every half an hour.

misskool

What's the size of the turkey? It might take 48 hours if defrosting in the fridge

Placing it on a metal tray on the kitchen worktop will help the turkey defrost faster.

jinky67

must be one huge turkey:eek::eek:

I think your only option is to defrost in the sink full of cold water, changed frequently, till it is defrosted

good luck:D

robpw2

if you place on worktop make sure its away from animals cats and dogs will eat anything

julieq

You'll have a hell of a job defrosting that for a lunch however you do it unless you're going to sit up all night changing the water. If you go that way don't be tempted to use warm water as that would risk incubating nasties.

Potentially a bath might be the way to go, running cold water over it continuously, but may be better to cut your losses and try and find a Plan B if you can. If you can delay 24 hours then you'll be fine, you might find that if you ring any guests they may be able to bring something along for a scratch meal. It may even be more fun like that.

Everyone has disasters from time to time, my best early one was reading the weight of a turkey in pounds and using the per kg cooking time so it came out as dry as a bone. You do end up looking back and laughing, though you don't believe that at the time. So if you can't defrost the turkey, don't let it spoil the day.

kimmy1984

hi, thankyou for your replies. its a 5.8kg one, says defrost for 45 hours in a cool room, well its currently in a warm room so hope it will be quicker, although i hope it wont make it go off, oh dear it just wouldnt be christmas without something going wrong would it! lol i can see myself defrosting my pork in the microwave in the morning!! the turkey needs to be done by 1pm, but im sure i could leave it till 5 and do a buffet thing for everyone while they wait :-S.....i would try the bucket of water but i dont fancy staying up all night :-(....hehehe im laughing to myself at the thought of bathing the kids in the morning along with the turkey!1

chivers1977

It will definitely not be ready to cook for 1pm if it was only out at 7 and you didn't do the water thing.........I think that you really need to do the cold water thing. Make sure that there are no ice crystals inside at all before you start cooking pls xx

kimmy1984

chivers1977 wrote: »

It will definitely not be ready to cook for 1pm if it was only out at 7 and you didn't do the water thing.........I think that you really need to do the cold water thing. Make sure that there are no ice crystals inside at all before you start cooking pls xx

its in the sink! lol :rotfl: