You’re ready to cook your prize poultry, but how long should you cook this thing? How do you know when the turkey is done? Should you trust the plastic pop-up thingy on the bird? (Hint: No!)

Watch as our resident food-safety expert and NC State Extension Specialist, Ben Chapman, shares research-based tips to help you prepare a safe and healthy holiday meal!

This segment of Homegrown was filmed in the Dinah E. Gore Teaching and Research Kitchens at NC State University. The state-of-the-art kitchen complex was designed to enhance and extend our work in teaching, research, and Extension.