Exclusive | Haters eat up viral, one-pan Thanksgiving recipe: How many people have you killed?

This recipe was a real turkey — even if it didn’t have any in it.A one-pan Thanksgiving recipe video is turning stomachs, with revolted critics panning it “one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen” and warning others to “NOT try this at home.”In the clip, which got over 7.5 million views so far, content creator Kate Heintzelman places a raw, unwashed chicken in an aluminum pan, and then proceeds to add all her raw side dishes — straight out of the can or box.

It was a recipe for disaster — and Instagrammers criticized her for the unsanitary food prep, with comments such as “What in the salmonella cross contamination raw chicken is going on here,” “How are y’all not dead from not washing y’all meat already?” and “How many people have you killed?” Some, however, defended her, saying “It’s not cross contamination … have you never cooked meat with vegetables?”Heintzelman, 32, told The Post that there’s nothing wrong with putting a raw chicken in a pan with raw veggies.“So you can’t put chicken with anything then? You put a roast in a crockpot with potatoes.You’re telling me you cannot eat the potatoes because they at one point touched the raw meat? That doesn’t make any sense to me,” she said.She also doesn’t understand all the chirping about her not washing the bird.

“You could have 100 people telling you you need to rinse off your chicken.Then, if you rinse off your chicken, people are like, ‘Why are you rinsing off your chicken?'” she said.Heintzelman, a former Minnesota high school social studies teacher who launched her Instagram handle @katewilltryanything during the pandemic, used powdered mashed potatoes and boxed stuffing, along with corn, yams and green beans all poured straight from the can.“Not even salt and pepper?!” one dismayed observer commented.“I hope nobody cooks like that for their family,” another added.

“Thanksgiving is about cooking with love and thankfulness.”...