How do I get my turkey

[LollipopsBestie]

To not be dry?!!

Butter under the skin. Loads of fatty bacon on top. Roast in a tin foil pillow. Baste and baste it!

www.deliaonline.com/how-to-cook/chicken-and-other-birds/how-to-roast-turkey

Under the skin? That would've been my first error 😂

Thanks!

Slow cooker

If you are doing it in the oven, tinfoil is your best friend and it is very important to keep basting it every half hour or so with juices that drip out of the turkey breast.

Have a lovely Christmas!

Thank you @WhenLifeGivesYouLemonsx, same to you!

2 things.

First is butter (and any flavourings you want) under the skin.

Second, and most importantly, put your bird on top of some carrots / onions / whatever to raise it off the bottom of your roasting tray and pour cider into the tray. Cover with foil and roast. The cider streams it while it roasts and it's bloody awesome. Remove the foil for the last 30 mins to crisp it up.

I guess you could use other liquid. But use cider.

And good luck and merry Christmas. 😊

Amazing. I would never have considered raising it!

I don't have any cider 😩😩😩😩. I have beer?!

Merry Christmas to you too and thank you for the tip x

Start cooking it upside down, then half way through, turn it right side up.
You get extra points if you 1) manage to get less than three excruciatingly painful fat burns on your hands/arms. And 2) Don’t drop it on the floor.
It’s the most exciting and unmissable part of cooking the Christmas dinner along with setting the pudding alight with an over generous amount of flaming brandy.

Bit late for this now but for future reference if anybody is searching.

Get a meat thermometer, 7 quid from Amazon - I got one this year as I'm convinced that the cooking guidelines on the packaging give you an over cooked turkey so they have no comebacks.

I did butter under the skin etc and then just checked the temperature until it reached 74c - it was just right and not dry at all.

Keep basting it every half hour, or pop it in the slow cooker then whack it in the oven on high eat for the last 15 min to crisp it up.