Cooking A Turkey From Partially Frozen. Here a digital thermometer is going to be your right hand gadget. At 2 hour mark remove giblets.
If it s in the original packaging you don t have to do anything just get that turkey under cool water in a large container asap. Cook frozen turkey for 2 hours to thaw. A partially thawed turkey will cook faster than a fully frozen one but slower then a fully thawed turkey will.
For instance a 14 pound frozen turkey will take about 5 3 4 hours to cook refer to the chart below for more estimated cooking times.
Plastic can melt releasing harmful chemicals to turkey. Simply plan for the roasting time to take about 50 longer than a thawed one. And if worse comes to worst you can even roast a frozen bird it will just need more time to roast. If package said cook thawed turkey for 5 hours cook frozen turkey 1 5x longer.
