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Old 12-08-2024, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Velvet View Post
Did he say where they cooked the whole turkey? And what happened to THEM? (I’m at Mallory and I’d so much like this place to be great.)
Me too, but it's never going to be with that particular operator.

Good question. I've never been in the kitchen at Mallory, but I think I've seen enough of it to know, cooking that many turkeys would be a problem.

The rule of thumb, is to plan 1 lb per person or 1.5 lbs per person if you're cooking whole birds. I was told by someone or read, that Mallory served 700 people on Thanksgiving Day.

That's a 1000 lbs of whole turkey or (50) 20 lbs Turkeys, at 4.5 hours/turkey (unstuffed freshTurkey takes about 13 minutes/lb.). No small task.

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