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Thanksgiving is only a day away, but do you know how you’re making your turkey? The culinary world is full of tips to help make your Thanksgiving feast stand out. One of the best ways to learn a new recipe or technique is to go onto YouTube. The video site is full of clips featuring culinary masters and passionate amateurs offering up their expertise. In fact, there are so many tips that at times it can feel overwhelming. Sure, there are a lot of videos that say they’ll teach you how to roast, brine, or deep fry your turkey, but which ones are actually being honest?

We watched a bunch of these “Turkey Tip” videos — and we mean a bunch — and narrowed the field down to the five best clips out there. These are the videos that will teach you the basics, up your brine game, and help you conquer the ever-important gravy. Here are the best turkey tips on YouTube.

How To Roast A Turkey - Gordon Ramsay Style

Ignore the fact that the video is for a “Christmas turkey.” After all, Gordon Ramsay is a Brit and our friends across the pond don’t know the glory of Thanksgiving. Their big November holiday is all about burning straw men who tried to blow up Parliament. How boorish!

Anyway, Gordon Ramsay is all about keeping your bird buttered up. He takes you through seasoning the bird and teaches you how to make a fantastic flavored butter that will keep your turkey moist and delicious. Oh, and there’s a part where he adds BACON to the turkey to help with the gravy. If you’re going to watch *one* video recipe, this is the one we’d suggest.

How To Brine A Turkey

So you’ve heard that you might want to brine your turkey. Do you know anything about that? The world of brines is vast and overwhelming, despite the fact that it’s a pretty simple technique.

Now ignoring the fact that this is a corporate-sponsored video designed to help shill Williams-Sonoma’s own trademark brines, this is great and concise overview of how to brine a turkey. We’re serious! In less than five minutes, you get a simple step-by-step process to either wet or dry brine your turkey. Everything is straight-forward and easy to follow (or adapt). Happy brining!

How To Deep Fry A Turkey (SAFELY)

Martha Stewart has a pretty decent video on deep frying a turkey, but her approach completely overlooks some of the biggest safety concerns. Hence why we’d recommend The Art of Manliness’s video on this topic. This video takes you step by step from unwrapping your turkey to deep frying it safely. Again: SAFETY FIRST WHEN DEEP FRYING A TURKEY.

Chef Karl Engel offers great tips on how to keep your bird moist — he injects butter into the bird with a needle — while also not burning your house down. He also teaches you the best way to measure and handle oil.

How To Roast A Turkey - For Newbies

You’ve seen those Tasty videos, right? They’re all over the internet and your Facebook feed and they give you a chef’s eye view of how to make just about anything. They also make things super simple for newbies.

Luckily for you, Tasty made a “How To Roast A Turkey” video for this year’s Thanksgiving. It’s a comprehensive “how to” guide that perfect for people who may be nervous about making a turkey for the very first time.

How To Make Gravy

Does gravy terrify you? It terrifies me. It seems complicated, but is it? Let superstar chef Jamie Oliver make it simple for you. This five-minute long clip will teach you how to make amazing gravy from your turkey pan droppings and offer you a rubric to make gravy out of any roasted meat dish. And we mean any meat dish.