Turkey for a Crowd

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2002, America's Test Kitchen TV

If you have but one oven and a long guest list for Thanksgiving, only a gargantuan turkey will do. Here's what we learned about successfully roasting "the big one."

SERVES 20 to 24

TIME 3½ hours, plus 35 minutes resting

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our big turkey recipe, we wanted a Norman Rockwell picture of perfection: crisp, mahogany skin wrapped around tender, moist meat. It was difficult to find a container large enough for brining such a big bird. So we chose either a self-b...

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