This recipe was a real turkey — even if it didn’t have any in it.
A one-pan Thanksgiving recipe video is turning stomachs, with revolted critics panning it “one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen” and warning others to “NOT try this at home.”
In the clip, which got over 7.5 million views so far, content creator Kate Heintzelman places a raw, unwashed chicken in an aluminum pan, and then proceeds to add all her raw side dishes — straight out of the can or box.
It was a recipe for disaster — and Instagrammers criticized her for the unsanitary food prep, with comments such as “What in the salmonella cross contamination raw chicken is going on here,” “How are y’all not dead from not washing y’all meat already?” and “How many people have you killed?”
Some, however, defended her, saying “It’s not cross contamination … have you never cooked meat with vegetables?”
Heintzelman, 32, told The Post that there’s nothing wrong with putting a raw chicken in a pan with raw veggies.
“So you can’t put chicken with anything then? You put a roast in a crockpot with potatoes. You’re telling me you cannot eat the potatoes because they at one point touched the raw meat? That doesn’t make any sense to me,” she said.
She also doesn’t understand all the chirping about her not washing the bird.
“You could have 100 people telling you you need to rinse off your chicken. Then, if you rinse off your chicken, people are like, ‘Why are you rinsing off your chicken?’” she said.
Heintzelman, a former Minnesota high school social studies teacher who launched her Instagram handle @katewilltryanything during the pandemic, used powdered mashed potatoes and boxed stuffing, along with corn, yams and green beans all poured straight from the can.
“Not even salt and pepper?!” one dismayed observer commented.
“I hope nobody cooks like that for their family,” another added. “Thanksgiving is about cooking with love and thankfulness.”
Heintzelman defended her decision to use quickie ingredients and not cook from scratch.
“I’m not my grandmother. And it’s really hard to remember how to make all these things homemade and it takes a lot of time,” she said.
“I want a whole Thanksgiving dinner and if it’s just going to be me and two or three other people, and it’s 100 pans to make of things … I was like, ‘What if we just throw it all in one pan?’”
Heintzelman did taste the finished product, and noted that “the potatoes were a little burnt, but everything else turned out great.”
Many Instagrammers joked she would be banned from cooking for their Thanksgiving celebrations.
“In our family, you would be asked to bring napkins,” one quipped.
“You can bring the rolls. Store bought,” another added.
“Hell naw, just bring the ice,” someone else said.
“Yeah, people don’t want me to be in charge of cooking,” she said, laughing.
Heintzelman is planning a one-pan ham for Christmas.
