is this right...

CHRISTMAS EVE DAY
1. takeout the turkey from the bag and clean it thoroughly with water then clean with papertowels then put back into the freezer

CHRISTMAS DAY

1. clean turkey (remove giblets, neck etc)
2. add extras or whatever you want.
3. pour salt and pepper over with olive oil
4. tie the neck and the feet together so its nice and wrapped
5. set for 2.55hours (4.2kg)
6. let it relax for 20 mins
7. chuck in


ive gathered this from most recipes,
is there anything wrong guys?

as i dont want to mess this up

The washing bit is disputed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7140651.stm

And you need to thaw it for quite some time before cooking, depending on size.

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydie...ristmaseating/

Well as you haven't defrosted the bloody thing it doesn't really matter.

Agreed, bird will have gone though all that and been microbiologically swabbed during process. Cooking at the correct temps will kill all bacteria anyway

This should be in the new forum: http://digitalspy.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=188

do you defrost it after you cut the giblets and neck off or before?

Before, you'll find it very hard to remove giblets while it's still frozen.

My turkey is moving to the fridge just before bed tonight so it is fully thawed by Tuesday but it's a big bird and I prefer to fridge thaw rather than do it at room temp. If it's smaller and you do it at room temp it will take less time.

Just power up the chain saw.

Dont slow cook on a low temp as that can bring out maggots that live inside it .
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Aren't you glad you are not going to the OP's for Xmas dinner.

Tonight I will be dreaming of Beth in her jimjams staggering to the fridge with her large frozen turkey whispering we have ways of thawing you.

I tend to put it in the oven till it is cooked. However, we now just have a smallish turkey crown.

Here's how (i post this every year but i just cant resist it..it still makes me chuckle):

How to cook a turkey:

Step 1: Go buy a turkey

Step 2: Take a drink of whiskey (scotch)

Step 3: Put turkey in oven

Step 4: Take another 2 drinks of whiskey

Step 5: Set the degree at 375 ovens

Step 6: Take 3 more whiskeys of drink

Step 7: Turn oven the on

Step 8: Take 4 whisks of drinky

Step 9: Turk the bastey

Step 10: Whiskey another bottle of get

Step 11: Stick a turkey in the thermometer

Step 12: Glass yourself a pour of whiskey

Step 13: Bake the whiskey for 4 hours

Step 14: Take the oven out of the turkey

Step 15: Take the oven out of the turkey

Step 16: Floor the turkey up off of the pick

Step 17: Turk the carvey

Step 18: Get yourself another scottle of botch

Step 19: Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey

Step 20: Bless the saying, pass and eat out

I'd love to one Christmas or indeed anytime I have a turkey meal to try one cooked with roast pepper on it.

Of all the threads to dig up in August you pick this....

omg why dig out this thread ????????????

That poster is a PBU who was caught out on another forum saying he's going to bump really old threads just to 'get back' at DS for banning him. And he's going to keep re registering under different names and bumping everytime he gets banned. sad really.

I need to buy mine soon, before they run out. I'm also undecided whether or not to cut a cross shape in the bottom of my sprouts before I put them on the boil.

its August!

Oh i get it now some people have nothing better to do i guess
Last edited by Paulieboy : 03-08-2013 at 10:00