AIBU to think that after 40 minutes’ rest the Turkey will be cold?

[MaggieFS]

Not really AIBU, but a plea for advice. Even covered loosely in foil, won’t it get cold? Any advice? I don’t want it to keep cooking in a warming oven, but I’ve no idea how to navigate this.

I cover mine in a few layers of tin foil and loads of towels and leave it for over an hour.
Still hot when carving up.
It'll be fine and if it's not, just cover with hot gravy.

Back in my turkey days, I used to cover mine with foil, then wrap the whole thing in a towel and leave it in a corner of the kitchen for an hour or so. It will be fine and it makes a difference to the meat if you rest it.

I've kept some of the insulating fabric from our hellofresh delivery to wrap this year's turkey in. Foil, teatowel, insulated blanket, let it sit for at least an hour, perfect!

Thank you so much much, it had never occurred to me to do this and I’m probably older than the lot of you! It has to “ rest” because we don’t have a double oven and there’s a lot of things which need to go in that oven!

Foil first, then a good few tea towels over the top.

It’ll retain heat for a couple of hours and all the juices will sink back into the meat and stop it from going dry

It is so much more comforting to hear from a flotilla of people that they do it and it works, than rely on anonymous Google/AI

That is why Mumsnet is what is called a ‘community’

No. A turkey takes forever to go cold. And in any case, if your gravy is hot it doesn’t matter.

Yes tuck it up in tea towels and even an extra thick blanket over the top. It will be groovy, baby!

We wrap it in several layers of foil and then put a tea towel or two over it. A good 1 5 hours later it was still steaming!

Piping hot gravy ;) saviour of any large roast meal that cools as all the bits come together. That and hot plates ;)

My mum was watrching a Jamie Oliver thing about Christmas cooking and he said 2 hours resting which seemed v excessive at the time! 30-45 minutes is fine.

Angela Harnett said on Dish to leave it two hours that seems excessive to me.

Yes.

Left ours for 90 mins, it was delicious and moist. And still hot!

Agree that piping hot gravy does help though.

Just came back to say thanks for the replies, and I definitely wanted to hear from a range of lovely people rather than a bot which can’t 100% be trusted.

I left it for about 30 mins under foil and two tea towels. It was warm rather than hot, but ok with hot plates and gravy. It certainly made life easier having a free oven to reheat veg, stuffing and Yorkshire’s.

I watched a Jamie program earlier this week and he used a meat thermometer to demonstrate that the internal temperature actually rises when you take the turkey out of the oven. It started at 67 and 10-15 minutes later it had gone up to 71. I'm not quite sure I would have rested it for more than an hour though.

We take it out twenty min before serving cover it on foil and tea towels. It’s good to let it rest. We make yorkies day before and re heat them

watched a Jamie program earlier this week and he used a meat thermometer to demonstrate that the internal temperature actually rises when you take the turkey out of the oven. It started at 67 and 10-15 minutes later it had gone up to 71.

This is what confuses me as the turkey continues to cook once out of the oven.
So should one deduct the resting time from the suggested cooking time?

Mine was fine and rested at least an hour

i do use a meat thermometer to check it’s cooked to start with

No, the cooking times should have been calculated to include the effect of the resting time. So the rest shouldn’t be omitted.

@ErrolTheDragon thank you so much for clearing this up, it's long puzzled me.

Ours was fine, covered with foil and a tea towel