How A Hair Dryer Could Help Elevate Your Thanksgiving Turkey

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We know what you're thinking — this sounds a little crazy. But hey, everything was once considered out-of-the-box until it became normalized and accepted. According to Reader's Digest, if you want perfectly crisped turkey skin, you should consider using a hairdryer instead of wasting half a roll of paper towels. While paper towels are only able to soak up the moisture on the outside surface of the turkey, blowing hot air from a hairdryer onto the turkey's skin can get inside and remove a deeper layer of moisture.

Using a hairdryer on your Thanksgiving turkey is actually pretty easy (via YouTube). First, start with your thawed turkey and remove any excess from its cavity, like organs. You can still pat down the turkey with paper towels to get most of the outer-surface moisture off of the skin and then break out the hairdryer. Using the maximum heat setting, you can "blow dry" the turkey for anywhere between 10 to 15 minutes or whenever there is no moisture or dampness left (via The Hot Mess Press). With this method, you can achieve your best browned and crispy turkey skin, with the browning starting as soon as 20 minutes once in the oven.

Try it out and let us know the results it produced for you!