Today we cook a whole turkey directly over live fire for bold American BBQ flavor. No oven, no complicated setup, just real charcoal heat and proper technique. I walk you through how to manage the ...

Understanding the Context

Roasting a whole turkey can be difficult to do well, as evidenced by the large number of people who claim to dislike the bird because it’s dry and bland. It is not the poultry’s fault, though. Turkey ... perfect, whole, entire, intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular.

Key Insights

perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. Whole is a determiner. We use whole before nouns and after other determiners (my, the, a/an, their) to talk about quantity. We use it to describe the completeness of something: … The seeds can be eaten whole or ground in a coffee grinder. Now he's arrived, it's a whole different situation.

Final Thoughts

Whole, total mean the entire or complete sum or amount. The whole is all there is; every part, member, aspect; the complete sum, amount, quantity of anything, not divided; the entirety: the whole of one's property, family. Entire; complete; without omission, reduction, diminution, etc.: as, a whole apple; the whole duty of man; to serve the Lord with one's whole heart; three whole days; the whole body. Something that exists in its entirety is whole. If there are eight slices of pizza and you eat half, you've eaten four of them. If you eat the whole pizza, you've somehow managed to eat all eight slices.