Thanksgiving Safety Tips
D’IBERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT
Thanksgiving Holiday Safety Tips
Food Safety Tips:
- Purchase only government- inspected meat and poultry products. Check the “sell by” date on all food you buy, and never buy packages if the date has passed.
- Wash your hands thoroughly before and after preparing any food products.
- Never thaw meat or poultry at room temperature. When thawing a frozen turkey, either keep it refrigerated on a tray, under cold running water, or in the microwave. When thawing in a microwave, finish cooking in a conventional over immediately.
- Keep two cutting boards handy, one for preparing raw meat, poultry, and fish, and the other for cutting cooked food.
- When preparing eggnog, hollandaise sauce, Ceasar-salad dressing, or other recipes that call for raw or under cooked eggs, use a pasteurized egg product instead of regular eggs.
- Never try to deep fry a turkey inside your home, immediately next to your home, in your garage, or under your carport. Boiling cooking oil, which overflows on to an open flame, can cause an uncontrollable fire which could lead to disaster for the holiday. Several homes are destroyed each year resulting from people frying turkeys within an unsafe distance from the home.
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