Whoopi Goldberg Claps Back at Turkey Cooking Backlash

2023-11-24 19:28:13
The View host, 68, faced scrutiny following she uploaded a clip of herself cookingSome people felt her method was unsafe, while others said she was unsanitaryShe responded to the backlash by posting a sassy video addressing her haters

Whoopi Goldberg has clapped back at trolls who slammed her for the way that she prepared her Thanksgiving turkey.

The acclaimed talk show host, 68, faced severe scrutiny online following she uploaded a video of herself and a friend getting ready to cook her ‘mother’s famous turkey’ to Instagram on Wednesday evening.

It showed them stuffing the inside of the bird with various spices and ingredients, but when some people noticed that neither of them were wearing gloves, it sparked an onslaught of negative comments.

The TV legend also came under fire following revealing that she planned to cook the dish by ‘basting it’ for 12 hours in the oven at only 200 degrees – with many online users wondering if it’s safe to cook meat at such a low temperature.

Whoopi Goldberg has clapped back at trolls who slammed her for the way that she prepared her Thanksgiving turkey The talk show host, 68, faced severe scrutiny online following she uploaded a video of herself and a friend getting ready to cook her ‘mother’s famous turkey’ to Instagram on Wednesday evening The talk show host, 68, faced severe scrutiny online following she uploaded a video of herself and a friend getting ready to cook her ‘mother’s famous turkey’ to Instagram on Wednesday evening It showed them stuffing the bird with various ingredients, but when some people noticed that neither of them were wearing gloves, it sparked an onslaught of negative comments

‘It is Thanksgiving Eve and I’m making my mother’s famous turkey. We’re doing everything to get her ready to put her in the oven at 9 o’clock tonight,’ she shared.

‘We’re gonna baste her until 9 o’clock in the morning. You put the oven on 200 degrees.’

Basting is a method that involves cooking a piece of meat in liquid and continuously spooning the juices from the bottom of the dish onto the top to help it cook.

Whoopi, who spent the holiday in Italy, explained that she and her other family members were going to take turns basting the turkey all night long.

‘We keep [the heat] on low so she has a chance to absorb all this stuff,’ she added.

But the comment section of the video was quickly flooded with negative messages.

‘Cooking at 200 degrees? Wouldn’t that be too low of a temperature to cook a turkey at?’ one person wrote.

Someone else simply commented, ‘Gloves?’ while another user added, ‘Hope he washed his hands.’

The comment section of the video was quickly flooded with negative messages Whoopi seemed unamused with the backlash and posted a second video addressing her haters. She said, ‘Yes, he’s washed his hands. Everyone in the kitchen washed their hands’

Whoopi seemed unamused with the backlash and posted a second video addressing her haters.

‘I’ve taken a moment out of my cooking time to come and respond to some of you because you’re asking me all kinds of questions, some I kind of feel like you should know the answer to,’ The View alum stated.

‘Yes, he’s washed his hands. Everyone in the kitchen washed their hands. You know why? Because no one wants to touch anything with dirty hands. We’re just like that, we’re odd,’ she added sarcastically.

‘[As for] why he wasn’t wearing gloves, it’s ’cause we’re at home and I didn’t buy gloves. Sometimes non-glove events happen.’

Whoopi insisted that her process was safe since she was going to be cooking it for such a long amount of time.

‘When you do it at 200 degrees and you do it slowly and you’re basting it, you’re not gonna worry regarding things like salmonella,’ she continued.

‘If you’ve just stuffed it and you’re eating it two hours later, I probably wouldn’t do it, but if you’re going to do what I do, which is take all night, that’s how you do it. You will not be ill from this turkey.

‘And by the way, this is the way my mom did it when I was little. I would wake up to a house smelling like turkey.

‘It’s important that it takes the amount of time that it needs to so it smells up the house.’

Whoopi insisted that her process was safe since she was going to be cooking it for such a long amount of timeWhoopi insisted that her process was safe since she was going to be cooking it for such a long amount of time While many were critical of her, other online users were quick to come to her defense

In the end, the star said that while she’s certainly no expert in cooking, a Thanksgiving turkey is the one thing she knows how to make.

‘I don’t cook, that might be why I’m not married,’ she joked. ‘This is the only thing I can cook.

‘I can cook the turkey my mother cooked for me, and nothing makes me happier because it brings me close to my big brother Clyde and to my mom and grandma.

‘Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I hope you’re having as good a time as I am cooking the turkey that I know I can do. Everything else is questionable.’

Cooking a turkey at 200 degrees over night may not be the traditional way, but experts have not advised once morest it. In fact, William Sonoma lists it as one of its recommended ways.

And while many were critical of her, other online users were quick to come to her defense.

‘How regarding during this time of Thanksgiving we all stop making snarky comments and just be thankful for Whoopi?’ one supporter wrote.

‘Yes Whoopi keep those sacred traditions. I want to wake up to the smell of that turkey filling the house with love,’ read another comment.

A third user said, ‘Not y’all telling a 68-year-old woman how to cook. The disrespect.’

Whoopi, dressed in a red and black plaid sweater over a blue button-down top and dark jeans, shared some footage of herself trying out the finished product on Thursday The turkey looked golden-brown She took a spoonful of the stuffing and dipped it in the liquid that had built up at the bottom of the tray before putting it in her mouth and making a delighted faceShe took a spoonful of the stuffing and dipped it in the liquid that had built up at the bottom of the tray before putting it in her mouth and making a delighted face

Someone else commented, ‘People have to realize we never cooked with gloves back in the day.

‘That’s a new age thing. We just made sure we constantly washed our hands.’

Whoopi posted one final clip discussing the topic following that. She said, ‘Darlings, darlings, why are you hung up on this glove thing? There are no gloves in my kitchen.

‘We wash our hands, we are not dirty MoFos. I don’t know what kind of people y’all know, but we wash our hands in the house. Don’t worry regarding it, I swear to God it’s OK.’

She also shared some footage of herself trying out the finished product on Thursday.

Whoopi, dressed in a red and black plaid sweater over a blue button-down top and dark jeans, stood next to a golden-brown bird.

She took a spoonful of the stuffing and dipped it in the liquid that had built up at the bottom of the tray before putting it in her mouth and making a delighted face.

‘Yum,’ she said.

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