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Originally Posted by starflyte1

Does anyone cook the turkey in the morning and carve it before the guests arrive and then reheat it just before dinner?

As a single, I attended holiday dinners where the hostess would buy a turkey from Publix, have them cook and carve it, then place in pans to reheat in the oven. The turkey was very good. They do not offer that service at Christmas, only Thanksgiving.

I plan on making the gravy ahead of time, using turkey wings and making make ahead mashed potatoes, so if I could just heat the turkey it would certainly take away the last minute rush.

The funniest turkey story I ever heard (and this was a true story) was about a woman who had to cook 2 turkeys because she had a lot of people coming. OK, she said, I'll cook one the day before and the other one Thanksgiving morning. So she cooked the turkey but then found that she didn't have room in the fridge for the cooked turkey as well as the uncooked one. A brilliant idea came to her. I'll wrap up the cooked turkey and put it in the outdoor grill that has a cover. Temp outdoors was about 40. So she did. Only to find next day when she opened the grill, there was nothing left but a few bones. Raccoons had a very happy Thanksgiving!