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1. Do You Really Need to Baste a Turkey?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
It’s not absolutely necessary to baste your turkey, especially if you use other tenderizing methods like marinating. Basting the turkey skin in stock liquid is not always a prerequisite to good-tasting meat. But it’s an easier method to have a moist turkey and prevent a dry meat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Can You Baste a Turkey Too Much?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Basting turkey at too short intervals means opening the oven or smoker too often. This will slow the heat down in the oven and the turkey will cool down. So the turkey will need more time in the oven than originally predicted. This is why you should baste turkey for 45 to 60 mins for maximum results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When you baste a turkey, you spoon, brush or pour a liquid over the roasting turkey to make it juicier and give it a golden appearance after the cooking process. Although it is no longer completely necessary as it was in our grandmothers’ days, basting a meat still is a tradition. And when you have to baste a turkey, you will need to do it every 40 minutes, with a turkey baster or with a spoon. This ensures juicy meat that’s never dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every 40 minutes! This is the general consensus among us cooks. With this interval, you won’t need to worry about over-basting your turkey or end up with dry meat. Turkey is naturally not a juicy meat. It’s a dry meat because of its obviously low-fat content. This is why I welcome whatever technique out there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9410"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9410\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9410"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=9410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}