Is your turkey refusing to defrost? Need to get a pound of lard out of your mother-in-law's stuffing recipe? Trying to cook for a crowd with two burners and a crockpot? Do you smell something burning? r/AskCulinary is here to answer all your Thanksgiving culinary questions and make your holiday a little less stressful!

Welcome to the eigth annual r/AskCulinary Thanksgiving help discussion and the eigth anniversary of our weekly discussion posts.

As always, our usual rules will be loosened for these posts where, along with the usual questions and expert answers, you are encouraged to trade recipes and personal anecdotes on the topic at hand. Obnoxiousness and misinformation will still be deleted, though.

Volunteers from the r/AskCulinary community will be checking in on this post in shifts throughout most of the day, but if you see an unanswered question that you know something about, please feel free to help.