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Wash your hands often to enjoy a safe holiday season
- Jeannie Nichols talks with Kirk Heinze
"When we plan ahead we tend to be less stressed and are more successful," she says. "So plan ahead to enjoy your holidays and not just get through them. So know what you're going to prepare and who's going to bring what."
Nichols advises us to "clean out our refrigerators to make room for the foods you'll serve as they're prepared and for all the leftovers you're going to have." And she says the garage is not a good substitute for a refrigerator because it tends not to be as clean as your refrigerator and "you can have a cat or mouse in there sometimes."
Nichols says we shouldn't thaw our turkeys on the counter; "that's a definite no." She says we should thaw the birds in the refrigerator and that it takes 24 hours to thaw about 4 pounds depending on the temperature of your refrigerator.
Another way to thaw is to put the food in its original wrapper covered in cold water. "It will thaw quickly that way, but make sure you change the water every 30 minutes."
Nichols advises us to wash our hands often throughout the cooking and preparation process. Our refrigerators should be at 41 degrees or lower, and our freezers should be at 0 degrees, says Nichols.
Nichols says that no more than two hours should pass from the time you take your food out of the oven until you put it away in the refrigerator.
If you won't use up the leftovers within about three days, Nichols says you should freeze the food in air tight freezer bags. "And use the frozen ham or turkey within 3 or 4 months - "it will be fine in there as long as your freezer is at 0 degrees."
"The key to a safe holiday food season is to get everyone involved in the preparation to wash their hands often," says Nichols.
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