This article provides tips on cooking a juicy and perfectly cooked turkey and ham for your Christmas dinner.
It’s not Christmas Day if you aren’t sitting down with a juicy turkey and ham for dinner. Everyone loves the yearly tradition, unless you’re the person that is in charge of cooking it and having it ready in time. It can sometimes feel like quantum mechanics trying to calculate the right time that everything needs to be cooked, for how long and when it’s ready to go.
However, there are giveaway signs that your Christmas turkey and ham can be taken out of the oven in time before they start drying out. Turkey It’s very easy to dry out a turkey by cooking it for too long. The ideal temperature to cook to is 75°C and you don’t want to go under 66°C. You can pinpoint it exactly using a temperature probe. The cooking time for a turkey can differ depending on what type you chose and the size of it. Safefood has a handy turkey cooking time calculator on their website here. To check your turkey is safely cooked, take it out of the oven and pop a meat thermometer in the thickest part of the meat between the breast and the leg; when it reads 75°C, it’s safely cooked. If you don’t own a meat thermometer, pierce the thickest part with a clean skewer or fork and check that it is piping hot, with no pink meat left and the juices run clear. The giveaway sign is that the juices are no longer pink or reddish. The thickest part of the turkey is normally the thigh as it takes the longest to cook. However, this can depend on if your turkey is boned & rolled or comes in a larger cut. Therefore, you should check several different spots to make sure, especially if you find that your oven is cooking food unevenly. Ham A Christmas ham can be cooked in so many different ways, from boiling to baking. It also depends if it has been deboned or not. One of the most popular options is a honey roast ha
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