Technology playing a bigger role in Thanksgiving dinner


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SALT LAKE CITY — There are only three days left before we eat the big Thanksgiving meal. Whether you're hosting the dinner or cooking parts of it, chances are you'll be looking for help.

Move over thickly bound cookbooks. Make way for digital directions on cooking that special Thanksgiving meal. More and more people are pulling out their phones and iPads for kitchen tips.

That's where Butterball Cookbook Plus comes in. The smartphone app uses voice command to walk you through cooking your Thanksgiving turkey. In addition to traditional cookbooks, this is another digital gizmo people are using to try out Thanksgiving recipes.

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Aside from the Butterball app, there are many resources online. You can find all sorts of tips, like a nine-minute video on YouTube showing you how to turn out the essentials: a turkey, stuffing and gravy.

There are countless more examples on YouTube, Pinterest and other websites. We're not exactly looking at the death of the cookbook, just more choices on how to make that Thanksgiving meal turn out just right.

"Cooking a turkey for someone who's never done it is hard," said food nanny Liz Edmunds.

That's why if it's your first time, she suggests you turn to a source you can trust and a recipe you know will turn out.

Edmunds said it is a good idea to use all available resources, but advises people not to forget the tried and true. In other words, you can go to YouTube and get a few good ideas, and then go to a real good respectable book that can take them through step-by-step.

But our KSL TV Facebook poll shows more people turn to family for tried and true Thanksgiving recipes, rather than the Internet.

"It's very simple," Edmunds said. "Even for the cook who is scared to death."

Her motto: if you can read, you can cook. "It'll tell you right on the package exactly what to do," she said.

But Edmunds also said if you don't have that frozen turkey in your fridge by Monday night, you're a little behind schedule because it takes such a long time to thaw.

Otherwise, she said you might be able to buy a fresh turkey from the store if they still have some available to roast on Thursday.

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