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To cook stuffing separately from the turkey, prepare the stuffing mixture according to the recipe. Place it in a baking dish and cover with foil. Bake in the oven at 350F for about 30-45 minutes, or until heated through and golden brown on top. Enjoy your stuffing without needing to stuff it inside the turkey.
Stuffing should be cooked in the oven for approximately 30-45 minutes at 350F until it reaches an internal temperature of 165F.
Most meats do have small traces of Salmonella and other bacteria or microbes present, which is normal. To kill these, it is not so much a matter of how long to cook the turkey, but how hot the meat must get. The food-safe internal temperature of any size whole turkey, is 1700F / 770C (without stuffing), and 1800F / 820C (with stuffing). Some health authorities also now recommend cooking the stuffing separately, for safety reasons, to a temperature of 1650F / 740C.If you are concerned that the bacteria load of your meat is so high that cooking it will not kill the bacteria, do not use it. When in doubt, throw it out.
The FDA recommends cooking stuffing separately from the turkey because the interior of the body cavity doesn't reach a high enough temperature to kill bacteria, which may cause food poisoning when the stuffing is eaten. If you try to remedy the problem by cooking at a higher temperature, the meat becomes dry and overcooked. Therefore, the recommended solution is to cook the stuffing in a separate casserole dish.
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Depends on the weight of the stuffed chicken. At 350, about 20 minutes per pound, plus 15 minutes. A 3 pound chicken would be 1 hr, 15 minutes. The temperature inside the meat/stuffing should reach 165 degrees F.
To ensure a turkey with stuffing is cooked thoroughly and safely, it is recommended to cook it until the internal temperature of the stuffing reaches 165F (74C). This typically takes about 3 to 4 hours for a stuffed turkey weighing around 12 to 14 pounds, cooked at 325F (163C).
Traditionally, turkeys are filled with stuffing. However, for food safety reasons, it is recommended that the stuffing and turkey are cooked separately. You can fill the turkey after it is totally cooked, if you wish to do so.
Stuffing can in fact be cooked low and slow. Crock pots are able to cook meats all the way through, so it would be easy for them to cook stuffing completely as well. The only issue to expect is if the stuffing will be overcooked from the trapped moisture.
This would depend on what kind of stuffing you are making, whether or not it is the instant stuffing (IE: Stovetop) or homemade. It also depends on whether or not you plan on making it separately, or stuffing the turkey with it. If you are using an instant stuffing, it is wise to make it last, as it only takes approximately 5 minutes to prepare. If you are making homemade stuffing, it is wise to prepare your bread crumbs in advance, so they have time to harden. If you are stuffing a turkey, prepare the stuffing mix prior to stuffing the turkey, then place it in the turkey's cavity. Please be advised that special precautions should be taken when doing this, as a turkey that has been stuffed, when improperly or incompletely cooked, can give additional rise to food borne illnesses.
One bag of stuffing mix will sufficiently fill a 16 lb turkey.