Thanksgiving a Bust

The wife brings home a new digital thermometer, and insists that I program it for 161 degrees F - because she saw it on some show. So I do, and lo and behold, it actually tells us that a 12 pound bird is ready one hour and 20 minutes later. Yikes! Needless to say, it was a good thing that we had so many other side dishes and tons of dessert, otherwise, the few guests that we had, would have went home hungry. She also left the stuffing out because she heard that it harbors bacteria - she saw that on another show. Next year the stuffing stays in the bird, and we go back to the other time-honored tradition of leaving the bird in for 20 minutes a pound.