How to thaw out two whole chickens to be ready to stuff for Easter?
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I would put them into a clean dry sink at bed time and check on them when I got up. If they're thawed, I would put them back it the frige until I was ready to cook them. 4/11/25
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Always always always the experts recommend thawing be done in a refrigerator, not overnight in a sink or anywhere other than a refrigerator. Why: because of the danger of salmonella and other harmful bacteria growing on/in the meat, which is much, much greater at room temp than it is at refrigerator temp. * CookingPro.net recommends 24 hrs for a 4 lb or smaller chicken, 48 hrs for a larger chicken. * CookinPro.net also offers a quicker method, but cautions that it is not as safe as the refrigerator method (but still: safer than most other methods). This method involves submerging the entire chicken in cold, clean water and ***replacing the water with fresh clean cold water every 30 minutes***. They claim this will thaw a 4 lb or smaller chicken in 2 hrs, or a larger chicken in 4 hrs.
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