![]() Eventually, hours later, I started cooking it and several more hours later, it came out of the oven and was duly carved. What ensued was a full day of tending carefully to an icy mass of multiple stuffed birds in the laundry sink, the only place I could fit the thing to continuously run water over the giant frozen orb in hope of defrosting it enough to put into the oven (food safety police look away now). I showed up to the fancy butcher on the morning of our big Christmas party to collect the pre-ordered roast, only to discover it was not fresh as expected, but frozen solid. It was the worst experience of my cooking life. *In the spirit of enjoying glorious whole roasted turkeys, let me tell you about the time in my early twenties when I attempted a five-bird roast (like a turducken on steroids, with a quail and a spatchcock put in for good measure). I do enjoy the spectacle of a whole gloriously roasted bird* on the table, though, and I know for many of you in the Northern hemisphere it’s a true Thanksgiving and Christmas staple. Some years it’s a perfectly roasted chicken, others it’s a stuffed and rolled turkey breast roast, both of which take far less time to cook than a big turkey (if you like the idea of a stuffed turkey breast in your steam oven, you can find a recipe in my Christmas steam oven cookbook). Commonly, we have a mostly cold meal with festive salads, glazed and chilled ham, seafood and just one or two hot centrepiece dishes. We’ve celebrated many Christmases in 40☌/104☏ or more heat, so the idea of a huge bird sitting in the oven and further heating the already-steamy house all day long is too much. There are a few reasons for this, but mostly it’s because the weather here during the festive season is hot. To finish things off perfectly, my turkey has a deep brown maple-glazed skin, which lends a little sweetness and depth to the meat that you won’t get with butter alone.īefore we start out today, I have to confess: I don’t actually roast a whole turkey very often. I’ve rounded up some of the many ways to cook turkey in a steam oven below, but what I really want to share is my favourite method for roasting turkey using my steam oven, so every part of the bird is incredibly juicy and tender. ![]() ![]() Find out more about affiliate links and how they help this site.Įvery year, around this time, I start to get an avalanche of emails and Facebook messages from people asking how they should cook their Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey in a steam oven.
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