Tips and tools for carving turkeys

CHICOPEE, Mass. (Mass Appeal) - Personal chef Bill Collins is here to show the ins and outs of turkey carving. He tells us the best way to thaw a turkey, how to know when the turkey is done, how long to wait before you carve it, what type of knife to use, and the best techniques of carving the turkey. You won't have to stress when the time comes to carve your turkey this year!

CHEF BILL COLLINS

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Since graduating from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, Bill Collins, aka Chef Bill, has cooked at a few nifty places, including the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston. He later went on to work at what he calls “the greatest candy factory in America.” At Harbor Sweets in historic Salem, Massachusetts, he was in charge of new product development, which included developing a whole new line of garden-themed chocolates playfully called “perennial sweets.”

Those experiences, as well as recipe testing for a seafood cookbook, led him to start Chef Bill, Inc. in 2001. Chef Bill was launched in the Boston area, where Bill served as a personal chef for many professionals (some famous, some not) including New York Times bestselling author Michael Palmer.

In 2006 Bill and his wife and business partner, Karen Dzendolet,relocated to the beautiful Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. They moved into the house where his wife had lived while growing up.