I grant you that turkey does sometimes have salmonella and can possibly be harmful. I’m a poster child for doing things the wrong way, sometimes from ignorance and these days from lack of concern about mostly hypothetical dangers. I’ve been cooking turkeys for more than 40 years and no one in the house has ever gotten salmonella. Heck, I used to leave mayonnaise out of the fridge overnight in South Carolina in the summer (no air conditioning) and no one ever got sick. And, if we followed the government guidelines we would never have slow cooked bbq. I’m not saying a little caution isn’t justified, but don’t obsess over it.
I grant you that turkey does sometimes have salmonella and can possibly be harmful. I’m a poster child for doing things the wrong way, sometimes from ignorance and these days from lack of concern about mostly hypothetical dangers. I’ve been cooking turkeys for more than 40 years and no one in the house has ever gotten salmonella. Heck, I used to leave mayonnaise out of the fridge overnight in South Carolina in the summer (no air conditioning) and no one ever got sick. And, if we followed the government guidelines we would never have slow cooked bbq. I’m not saying a little caution isn’t justified, but don’t obsess over it.