After the Thanksgiving meal, consumers must store leftover food safely to prevent foodborne illness. The FDA and the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has information you can use! Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, side dishes, and desserts are all perishable and must be refrigerated as soon as possible. Remove turkey meat from the bones, cut … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving! If you have questions about food safety, cooking the turkey, storing leftovers, or anything else, the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline is open from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm ET today. Experts will answer your questions and guide you through concerns to make sure your dinner is delicious and safe. The number is … Read more
Rachael Ray’s magazine is again the focus of Food Safety Bloopers. Her food editor Terry Singh is in a video showing people how to prepare a turkey for Thanksgiving. Incorrectly. While Ms. Ray’s magazine and her books continue to promote cooking burgers to rare and medium rare, against USDA advice, this is another blooper. First … Read more
Thanksgiving is Thursday! The USDA has collected lots of information to help you make this holiday food safe. Their Countdown to Thanksgiving offers tips, food safety rules, and timetables for safely preparing the Thanksgiving turkey. The government also offers Tips of the Day for turkey handling. If you have not started thawing a frozen turkey, … Read more
The USDA is sharing tips for making a safe and delicious Thanksgiving dinner. USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Elisabeth Hagen said, “all year, Americans look forward to sharing a Thanksgiving meal with family and friends, and USDA wants to make sure that meal is safe as well as delicious. We encourage hosts to … Read more
Washing chickens and turkeys before cooking is a common practice in many kitchens that is completely unnecessary and potentially dangerous. Salmonella, Campylobacter, and other pathogenic and potentially deadly bacteria are always going to be on raw chicken. In fact, Campylobacter is found on almost 50% of commercially available whole chickens. Thorough cooking kills those bacteria … Read more
The USDA has lots of information about food safety and turkey preparation. In fact, they have a nice selection of videos on You Tube all about safe turkey preparation. The videos show you how to fry a turkey, prepare a smoked or grilled turkey, prepare a brined turkey, safely thaw a turkey, stuff turkey, and … Read more
As we approach Thanksgiving, we’re going to be highlighting food safety information from the USDA. The government is an excellent source of information for the Thanksgiving meal, with directions on how to smoke, deep fry, and grill turkey, as well as information about keeping food safe and storing leftovers correctly. A few years ago I … Read more