Thankfully I live in a climate that makes this easier, but you can make this work with a cooler indoors if needed.
I have my turkey in a 5 gallon bucket with my circulator and a TempSpike. It’s below freezing at night but only gets into the 40s during the day. So during the day, I have the circulator set to 33 and the TempSpike set to 40. When the TempSpike hits 40, it alarms to my phone and I throw in a big cup of ice and it drops the temp back into the 30s. Once the outside temp drops below 40, I bump the circulator up to 38 and pull the TempSpike for the night to charge.
I’ve done this in past years when it’s been consistently cooler than 40 for the whole week leading up to Thanksgiving, but this is the first year I’ve coupled with the TempSpike for high end alarms. I would not recommend this if you aren’t home for the day to add ice if the temp rises about 40, but there’s always someone home during the day at my house. If you don’t have a TempSpike, you can still keep this safe with regular manual temp checks once the outside temp gets above 40.
by mickaboom
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Is this mainly to save space in your fridge?
Seems like this would be really bad for your sousvide heating element
What? This seems like making mountains out of molehills.
I’ve thawed over 20 turkeys just this month using this method
I presume youre thawing it to break it down? Why don’t you just run it at like 80-100f for an hour or two then pull it and break it down. It’ll be thawed by then. No reason to wait 2 nights for it if you’re not just doing it in the fridge
I did this in 2020 when we were still social distancing. the weekend before thanksgiving looked like a nice day so we decided to finally get together as a family outside…but that also meant less time to thaw the turkey. Took less than a day to thaw, filling ice every couple of hours
Thanks for the TempSpike commercial 👍. It’s a frozen turkey, recirculate the bath at 4-6C and when it’s not that anymore then the bird is thawed.