Butterball Turkey Hotline Offers Help Via Alexa, Text, Chat, Call

If this is your first time cooking a turkey, the centerpiece of the quintessential Thanksgiving feast, there are experts to turn to for advice on how to marinate, brine, defrost, bake or fry your bird. The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line is staffed, open and ready to answer your questions.

For more than 30 years, the Turkey Talk-Line has responded to tens of thousands of questions during the holiday season. Its experts help with everything from cooking — the Butterball website has gluten-free dinner recipes, as well as tips on how to grill, air fry or deep fry a turkey — to serving and more. Butterball's helpers are on the job now through Christmas Eve.

And while it's been around for decades to talk worried or novice cooks through their looming kitchen ordeals, the hotline keeps up with changing technology. It has added social media and Amazon Alexa to the ways you can reach out for help on what to do with giblets or keep your bird from drying out.

You can text your question to the Butterball turkey experts through 7 p.m. Eastern on Thanksgiving Day; send your text to: 844-877-3456.

You can find an expert on Butterball's website, Facebook and Twitter, via email, or just give them a call at 1-800-BUTTERBALL (1-800-288-8372) if you need to talk one-on-one.

The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line began in 1981 with six home economists working the phones that holiday season answering 11,000 questions about cooking a turkey. Since then, the line has grown in both the number of calls and the number of experts on hand to help.

Today, Butterball has more than 50 experts and fields more than 100,000 questions from thousands of households across the United States and Canada. From phone calls to texts, nearly a million people have used the Talk-Line's guidance.