HELP with TURKEY, left it out all night to THAW on the counter

wash it inside and out, salt the cavity, and cook!! It is fine.

should be ok. what is the temp of the turkey?

Should be fine. However, wash inside and out with WINE and be sure to cook completely.

Cook that damn bitch of a turkey!!! Do it now!!!

Eat the bastard until it is nothing but bones!!!!!!!!!!!!

As long as it was cold water (never hot for poultry to thaw-can give one food poisoning that way), I would cook it, make sure you use a thermometer and that it is cooked through when finished cooking.

I don't have any food licenses, but if it were totally frozen through, I would imagine it would take over 4 hours to thaw and if you leave it out 4 hours is the max time for meat, that's 8plus hours. It was most likely still partially frozen at 4 hours, I would cook it now. That's just me, though.

Latest advice is DON'T wash your turkey (spreads more germs - over the turkey, over you, over the kitchen sink etc.).

Just cook it properly, OP. It'll be fine.

Enjoy!!

As long as you cook it all the way to where the center is above 140F then you will have no problem with disease.

Rot doesn't really set in to be a problem for 24 hours. If your house is set at 68F or lower through the night then you will have a lot less rot than at 72F or greater.

Turkey is 10 lbs.
The water I placed the turkey in last night was cold. It only halfway covered the turkey.
It probably set on a counter for about 10 hours tops.
This morning, it was soft, still cool to the touch. I did rinse it off in a sink, and tried to wash the inside, but inside was still kind of frozen. So it looks like th Turkey thawed off almost all the way through, but middle/middle is still somewhat hard.
I put some salt on the top, and put it in 350 degree oven, it's cooking now. I'll probably overcook it just in case.

I was so much hoping to have a nice turkey today (as I missed one on Christmas)....what an idiot!

your turkey will be fine OP.you don't need to overcook it.
enjoy

Actually you have defrosted the Turkey just right, and it is fit to eat. How big was Turkey, and why the hell are you eating it on Sunday instead of Christmas day???

I brined mine in sugar, salt and water overnight and then cooked as usual. It was tender, juicy and no problem at all! What did they do before fridges? Don't worry about it! :-))))))))