This fresh and fruity Christmas tree pavlova recipe is the perfect centrepiece for your festive celebrations. It’s...
Christmas
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Christmas Tree Pavlova
This fresh and fruity Christmas tree pavlova recipe is the perfect centrepiece for your festive celebrations. It’s the light but flavourful dessert everyone needs to cleanse their palettes after a rich meal, but its striking Christmas tree shape keeps it looking suitably festive and celebratory.
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How Long to Rest a Turkey
To find out the scientific secrets behind cooking the perfect turkey, we carried out the ultimate temperature experiment. Here we’ve summarised our findings on the resting front, but you can read the experiment blog to learn more about the full process. Read on to find out how long to rest a turkey for the best results.
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A Temperature Guide to Cooking & Resting Turkey
Christmas dinner is, for many, the most important meal of the year. But cooking a whole turkey is no mean feat — it’s difficult to ensure such a large and lean meat is safely cooked and juicy all the way through. Especially when packet instructions and recipe timings commonly overestimate how long it takes for meat to reach a safe temperature, resulting in an overcooked centrepiece.
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Mike Tomkins’ 11 Christmas Dinner Tips for Turkey Perfection
Described by John Torode as a ‘meat maestro’, MasterChef 2021 runner-up Mike Tomkins is a pro at making the traditional turkey feast one to remember. Follow his top 11 Christmas dinner tips to make yours a succulent and stress-free experience.
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Quick & Easy Christmas Pudding
A quick and easy Christmas pudding recipe for making on Christmas Eve. Steam for 3-4 hours on Christmas Day and ensure the temperature doesn't go over 71 °C for the perfect pudding.
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Best Cooking Christmas Gifts for Bakers, BBQ Lovers & More
Call us biased, but we think thermometers make great presents. We're always gifting our friends and family Thermapens, and the response is invariably "I use it all the time!". Furthermore, believe it or not, food thermometers are pretty cool.
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The Ultimate Turkey Cooking Guide
Cooking a turkey can send fear rippling through the hearts of even the best home cooks. Will it defrost in time? Do I brine it? What even is brining? Is it cooked? Why is it dry? How do I rest it? Can I reheat it? We've all asked ourselves these questions.
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The Best Three-Cheese Fondue
Cheese fondue makes a fabulous meal for sharing, especially over Christmas. We used three different kinds of cheese in this cheese fondue recipe. We also added some brandy and nutmeg to create an irresistible flavour that guests will love.
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Mike Tomkins’ Simple Salmon En Croute with Spinach
This simple salmon en croute with spinach is the perfect centrepiece for fish lovers. Mike Tomkins kept this salmon en croute recipe classic but high quality and full of flavour. Cooking it to temperature with Thermapen is the easiest way to know when your salmon is safely cooked but perfectly soft inside.
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Kenny Tutt's Roast Goose with Mulled Plums
Rich, perfectly cooked roast goose and sweet, festive mulled plums make the perfect pairing in this Christmas recipe by Kenny Tutt. To make your bird one to remember, cook to 65-70°C using your Thermapen. The meat will rise to a safe temperature of 74°C as it rests.
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Mike Tomkins' KellyBronze Turkey Recipe
KellyBronze turkeys are a unique breed of slow grown, free range birds. There’s no better way to make your Christmas the one than by investing in the best of the best for the ultimate Christmas meal.
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The Smokin' Elk's BBQ Turkey Crown with Roasties
This Christmas is about going all out and making your Christmas dinner extra special. What better way to do that than by cooking yours on the BBQ? The Smokin’ Elk wouldn’t have his any other way, so he showed us how to do this simple but delicious juicy BBQ turkey crown that’s guaranteed to make anyone’s Christmas the one.