Debunking 18 Thanksgiving Myths

You’ll learn how to cook a turkey so you don’t make your guests sick, the number of calories in a turducken, and why the day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday.

[Zeldarw]

He's a good (yum) turkey, I don't want him to die!! 😂😂
#TeamNoRinse 🙂 also team cornbread dressing.💯

[spikerwave]

I miss the old "Wall" and the pork chop fund piggybank

[dstinnettmusic]

I'm on team "rinse all that gross, slimy liquid off my meat before i cook it." It's not to keep away bacteria or whatever, i just prefer to wash then season my food.

[Austin_Bundy]

Idk where the rising or washing your poultry started but it’s moronic. Unless you’re planning on serving a medium rare bird, cooking the thing will kill all the bacteria.

[disorganizedorg]

My mother definitely was fine with substituting butternut squash for pumpkin in her holiday pies. Call me biased, but I find them very similar and prefer the squash by a small margin.

[dubya]

No rinse. That’s kind of crazy...just cook your bird

Plus with poultry, the contamination is inside the meat...I could maybe see it for beef. But even then...”rinsing” doesn’t kill things. You’d either have to use soap or boiling water, so you’re either ruining your meat or just, you know, cooking it

[SuperFeefer]

I tie my turkey to the roof of my car and take it through the car wash

[snowkanecowboy]

Just a thought but can we get a 50 amazing facts about John Green?

[CAcationu]

Oh Erin, I adore you! Insisting to recite that bird list cracked me up.

[amyb]

Yeah no, I don't rinse my poultry at all. It seems really strange that people would do that but I guess people in US are overly paranoid over most things food related because their food regulations suck. Here where I live (Sweden for reference) all of our food is strictly regulated, tested and has little to no shortcuts in production. We don't need to be doing anything to it really. But you still shouldn't rinse it because bacteria all pretty much die when cooked properly.

[mizusenshisongs]

That's interesting that they say not to rinse the turkey. I work in a grocery store deli and we're always supposed to rinse our poultry. Though ours is chicken, not turkey.

I don't know if my mom (who usually makes our Thanksgiving dinner) rinses our turkey, but she does usually defrost it in the sink under running water overnight if she gets a frozen one.

[AveryMilieu]

Since I was a child in the 50's watching the televised parade in black and white while my mother fussed in the kitchen, I've ALWAYS called it the Macy's Day Parade.
Frankly, it isn't getting any better through the years...



As for washing poultry. Given that commercially produced poultry has been dunked in myriad disinfectants, I'd be inclined to wash it just to get the toxic chemicals off of it. It can be done carefully without hosing it down to expose the kitchen to droplets.

[gsyguy]

simple cooking with any meat, 20 minutes per pound plus and extra 20 to be safe, always works .

[karlarecinos]

Why hasn’t John made any life hacks recently

[janusloggins]

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

[Mattteus]

I’m team bathe the turkey in butter. Or better yet, deep fry it.

[jenisedai]

St. Augustine wasn't the first Thanksgiving over here, either. The French established Fort Caroline just north of St. Augustine (where modern day Jacksonville is now) a year before the Spanish established their colony, and celebrated a meal of thanksgiving with the Timucuans a year before the Spanish.

[lesliebehringer]

You rinse the turkey as you clean it, to remove the remaining feather quills and other debris from the surface and cavity.

[ircimager]

i don't rinse a turkey but do wash chickens, at least when i'm packing them to freeze

[Marieketm]

There is no thanksgiving in Leiden or in the rest of the Netherlands. The only mention I could find is that the American Church in the Netherlands has a service every year in the Pieterskerk in Leiden. In some orthodox Christian traditions there is "Dankdag voor het gewas". This translates to "Thanking day for the crops", in which people give thanks for a good harvest.