To say my turkey looks so fricking good!

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Its had an onion and garlic up his arse and drowned in butter the giblets have been cooked with onion carrot celery and made the most amazing gravy........ share your turkeys

It looks fantastic.

My dad has always cooked our turkey the day before. It’s always a splendid meal. Moist and tasty and just wonderful.

Enjoy your meal.

Hope your shift goes well Glitter DBro is working tonight too then coming here to DMs to eat and fall asleep on the sofa.

That turkey looks fab.

For anyone saying reheated meat is yuck, after xmas day I reheat turkey in a steamer and it's lovely, so moist.

Um...I wasn’t being horrible. I said it looked lovely. Just giving opinion that it’s nicer and not any more stressful cooking fresh. To be honest, warming it up would really stress me out with food poisoning fears (I know it’s not dangerous - it’s my issue, but its what I would worry about)

I don't understand people cooking their food today and reheating in some way tomorrow. Do you do this with many of your meals?

Speaking for myself only, I cook it on Xmas eve because I have a small oven and I am cooking for 10 people. I can't fit everything in so it is much easier to have the turkey done. If you cook it well and warm it up in gravy it is absolutely no different.

It's really not that difficult to understand why some people might cook theirs today is it?

It looks amazing OP. Happy Christmas.

Your working a full night shift tonight, up all day tomorrow, spent today cooking (your first!) amazing looking Turkey and the rest of your meal sounds fab!
Kudos OP! Happy Christmas!

Rubbish photos I'm afraid but I cooked a turkey on Sunday after brining Nigella style. Thought I'd try to get thread back on track .

Um...I wasn’t being horrible. I said it looked lovely. Just giving opinion that it’s nicer and not any more stressful cooking fresh.

In your opinion it isn't any more stressful. I have been cooking Xmas dinner for years and I find it much easier cooking it today.

Honestly cardibach stop! Now you’re adding to the list of naysaying with food poisoning.

I know it’s a confusing time of year but some people eat Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve
Mad, I know.

Don't forget to tent it with foil and baste

Speaking for myself only, I cook it on Xmas eve because I have a small oven and I am cooking for 10 people. I can't fit everything in so it is much easier to have the turkey done. If you cook it well and warm it up in gravy it is absolutely no different.

It's really not that difficult to understand why some people might cook theirs today is it?

But if you rest the turkey for long enough, your oven is then free for everything else to cook in the same way as you do now (and it's already warm, so you save electricity too). So I still don't see the need, no.

And I also said it looked lovely. It's not horrible pointing out that with adequate resting, you don't need to cook it the day before. Some people might not know about the resting time and it actually may make life easier so they're not spreading cooking over two days!

@TSSDNCOP I specifically didn’t do that. I said it was my issue and not dangerous.
Are we not allowed an opinion/anxieties of our own any more?

I know it’s a confusing time of year but some people eat Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve

Which nobody here has said they are. We aren't the confused ones!

I'd actively avoid going to dinner where reheated food was being served!

Well good job OP hasn’t invited you then.

No need to @ me Cardibach I’m right here. Of course we are. But just because we can didn’t mean we always should.

I work in a nursing home

Well think of me tomorrow am-

ordered our turkey from a farm and DH collected yesterday-

I ordered a 9kilo one (you can't order precisely-just within a range) and DH came home with an 11.2kilo one. He said everyone was getting bigger than they ordered. I am seriously worried about it fitting in the oven and how long it will take to cook.

But I'm still going to the pub at lunchtime-who knows when we will eat

looks yummy.
I wanted to cook it overnight but hubby said there's no need because he's getting up at 5 to start the turkey

I suspect some of you should expect visits from three ghosts tonight

Looks blooming lovely, OP! Merry Christmas!

But if you rest the turkey for long enough, your oven is then free for everything else to cook in the same way as you do now (and it's already warm, so you save electricity too). So I still don't see the need, no.

It's not about need, it just makes it easier for us. My oven is not the best, things take a long while to cook. I have to constantly juggle shit around in my oven to fit everything in. It is one less thing to think about on the day.

It works for us, I find it less stressful, it's still moist and no one has ever got food poisoning.

We're having ham. And yes it's been cooked today ready to eat tomorrow

Thatsmysanta - my message was directed at someone else so wind your neck in

Looks lovely! I hope you and your family enjoy it.

Ours is in the oven and its feeling christmassy at last