Turkey Deep Freeze! What a disaster! Pee-paw forgot to thaw the turkey (its at -4 C!!!

) and its the day before Thanksgiving! Since you understand thermodynamics, you suggest that Peepaw puts the turkey in a room temperature water bath (20 C). Pee-paw fills a 10 L pan with water and after a few hours the turkey and the water reach thermal equilibrium at 16 C. If the specific heat of frozen turkey is 1.41 J/g/C and the specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g/C, what is the mass of Pee-paws turkey?

Marshmallow Madness! The oven mesmerizes cousin Jenna. Whats up Jenna, you ask her as you take a look into the oven yourself. Jenna explains that the marshmallows on top of the sweet potatoes are puffing up like magic. Its not magic, you explain the Jenna, its simple physics. Write your explanation to cousin Jenna.

Mashed Potato Mash Up! Aunt Mimi is arguing with tree hugging uncle James. James is insisting that Mimi cut up the potatoes before cooking them, and Mimi wants to follow her famous family recipe, which means leaving the potatoes whole. Always interested in going green, James insists that cutting up the potatoes will require less energy to cook them. Help support uncle James and his love for mother earth by using an equation to support his point.

Grammy Gets Heated! Grammy Ann is getting ready to cook the turkey but her meat thermometer is broken. Oh no, Thanksgiving is ruined! In a bold move, you offer to calibrate Grammys thermometer. Grammys meat thermometer uses a bimetallic strip that relies on the expansion of copper bonded with steal. Copper has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion (17 x 10^-6 /C) so you know that copper will be the first metal to expand. You measure the length of the copper at room temperature (20 C) and it is 0.03 meters long. The turkey will be finished when the meat reaches 85 C. How much will the copper expand before the turkey is completely done?

Turkey in a Pickle! Once the turkey is in the oven, your niece Becca begins to whine I hate turkey, the white meat is always soooo dry and the dark meat is tough like rubber. You realize that Becca is right; it is really hard to make a good turkey. You try to reason with Becca, well, you see, you explain, breast meat is best cooked to 74 C whereas the darker meat on the legs and thighs should really be cooked to 85 C. Becca promises that she will try to help solve this problem using materials found in the kitchen. Propose a solution to this dual temperature turkey problem and draw a diagram to accompany your written description.

Sweet Victory Momma Ellen is known far and wide for her pies- the secret, she maintains, is in the crust. Momma Ellen begins preparing her famous pecan pie in the kitchen, but quickly becomes very upset. Momma Ellen will only use foil pans for her pies!! At first this seems strange, but after thinking about it for a minute, you completely understand! Write an explanation for why Ellen will only use foil pie pans.