Time to pull your turkey from the freezer [View all]

In my experience, a turkey takes at least a week to thaw, plus add a day or two for dry brining.

I didn’t actually have one in the freezer, but bought a frozen bird this morning and put it into the downstairs fridge. On a sheet pan, of course, in case of leaks.

Turkeys are still surprisingly cheap—I paid just under $1 a pound for a 14-pound bird. The rest of the Thanksgiving supplies came to around $130 between Aldi and Sam’s Club. That’s for an extravagant amount of food for 10 people, so not bad.