http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/...5-minutes.html
Bittman's 45 minute turkey.

Wayne, this recipe is for you, dear, as I know how we love our turkey.

DH decided he'd like to try this method of flattening a bird and for some
crazy reason, I agreed to him putting it into the oven.

Oh,my, the mess! I suppose the oven did need a cleaning, so it got a 3-hour
session; but remembering what you said about the oven door cleaning taking
longer (a 4-hour session?), I just knew that spattered door window would not
clean up. It did not. I should have sacrificed another hour.

What's more, I don't think he flattened it enough, so the bird took much,
much longer than Bittman's 35-37 minute bird (ours looked about the same
poundage as Bittman's - 12 lbs.) We kept putting it back into the oven,
taking the temperature with the Thermapen. I think DH washed the prong of
the Thermapen too often and ran some water up into it, necessitating hunting
for that 'special' battery for it that I had conveniently put away -
somewhere; it was working sporadicaly. I did not have my Polder readily
available either. I think perhaps one of those two prong Polders
that is offered would be good for turkey breast at 161º and the thigh 175º.

The Thermapen seems to be working well today, but DH decided to order this
one http://tinyurl.com/8o67pq to have on hand. I see the Thermapen is up
to $109 now - incredible! I won't be replacing it at that cost, I don't
believe, so I hope the one DH ordered is good.

I might add, that I didn't eat one bite of that turkey. But I did break
down and have a breast slice today while the oven was cleaning.

25º high here tomorrow; wind gusts up to 50 mph. Yikes - I have errands to
do, too!
59º high in Phoenix tomorrow -- you guys must be freezing ;-))

Dee Dee