[Closed] Cooking the best Christmas turkey ever - Help please

Who's got the best tips on cooking it so that it won't be a dry horrible thing?

Put an onion up it's bumhole, creates steam when cooking. Also, get $h1t loads of butter in between the skin and the flesh.

Also, does anyone have a great stuffing recipe that doesn't include sausage meat?

Such a thing does not exist 🙂

I cover the turkey in a delicious blanket of streaky bacon before cooking, then the bacon crisps up and dries but the turkey does not as all the bacon fat seeps into the turkey. You would still need to take it out and baste it but less frequently.

Then, once the turkey is cooked take it out of the oven and wrap it in foil and allow it to stand, it will sort of steam itself for a bit in there. I have had turkey roast dinners about once a month this year and that is how I have been doing it.

Edit - how hot should the oven be, I have found that like other meats there is a benefit to cooking low and slow. I tend to go gas mark 4 and cook for longer than the instructions that tell you to go GM-5

Place it breast side down in the pan so that the juices run into the breast rather than away from it.

You don't want it to go tits up.

Disclaimer: Never cooked a turkey in my life. Saw this on a Jamie Oliver show. Just wanted to make the tits up joke.

Keep it in the bag, obvz.

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Buy a goose.

Some cooking time upside down certainly helps. Rest for a good period too and finally carve the breasts off and cut them rather than take slices off.

does anyone have a great stuffing recipe that doesn't include sausage meat?

Deep fat fryer for the turkey, American style.