A recipe for cooking a turkey states to allow 15 minutes for each pound of turkey and to add 5 minutes per pound if the turkey is stuffed. Our turkey weights 18 pounds and will be stuffed. It takes half an hour for the turkey to cool. What time should the turkey go in the oven if we want to have dinner at 2:00pm?

(20 * 18) + 30 = 390 minutes = 6.5 hours

What time do you think the turkey should go in the oven?

To calculate the cooking time for the turkey, we need to use the given information from the recipe.

For an unstuffed turkey, the recipe states to allow 15 minutes for each pound of turkey. Since your turkey weighs 18 pounds, the cooking time for an unstuffed turkey would be 15 minutes x 18 pounds = 270 minutes.

However, in your case, the turkey will be stuffed, so we need to add an additional 5 minutes per pound. Therefore, for a stuffed turkey, the cooking time would be 15 minutes + 5 minutes = 20 minutes per pound.

So, for an 18-pound stuffed turkey, the cooking time would be 20 minutes x 18 pounds = 360 minutes.

Now, we need to account for the additional 30 minutes for the turkey to cool after cooking. Therefore, the total time needed for cooking and cooling the turkey would be 360 minutes + 30 minutes = 390 minutes.

To determine when the turkey should go in the oven, we need to work backwards from the desired dinner time of 2:00pm.

As there are 60 minutes in an hour, we can calculate how many hours before 2:00pm the turkey needs to be ready by dividing 390 minutes by 60 minutes/hour. This gives us 6.5 hours.

If we subtract 6.5 hours from 2:00pm, we get 7:30am. Therefore, the turkey should go in the oven at 7:30am in order to be ready by 2:00pm.