Cooking A Turkey Flat. So our 16 pound turkey was estimated to cook in about 3 1 2 hours. Spatchcocking to spatchcock you remove the backbone of a whole bird and lay it flat to cook.
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Place roast skin side up on a flat roasting rack in 2 inch deep roasting pan. Flattening the turkey exposes more surface area to heat so overall cooking time is reduced. Second with all the skin on top you get plenty of channels for rendered fat to drain out of the turkey giving you crisper skin and leaner meat.
Increase temperature to 400 degrees f 200 degrees c and roast until skin is crisp about 15 minutes more.
So make sure that your turkey comes to 135 f within about 4. Do not add water to pan. Many earlier generations grew up roasting their turkeys overnight in the oven. Compare that with the 3 to 3 hours it takes to cook an unstuffed 10 pound turkey at the same 350º f.
