Resting the turkey.

Two small granddaughters were playing hide and seek one day and were totally 'unfindable'.

They had got into the hot trolley- one on the top shelf and one on the bottom and managed to pull the doors closed behind themselves.

My turkey isn’t tired. It comes out of the oven and we carve and eat.

It would not be wise for anybody to bend me over backwards on my hostess trolley ......my back would go! How did she come up with such wonderful lyrics....I’m sitting chucking remembering them.

Resting the turkey, send it to Barbados for a holiday!

Lucca

I’m a bit embarrassed to admit I still own a hostess trolley !! It is kept out of site in a very convenient cupboard but The turkey would go in their to rest for about 45 minutes if I were ever to cook one again

Me too!
I rarely use it now but bought it one Christmas when I was cooking for a crowd and used it a lot.
At the moment it's filled with DH's puzzles
I must remember not to turn it on.

Let's Do It by the wonderful Victoria Wood

Meat not blinking neat!!

I always rest neat, covered in foil.

I am a very proud owner of a well used hostess trolley but wouldn't put the turkey in there to rest - that's for everything else - plates, sprouts, stuffing, red cabbage, carrots, parsnips, roast potatoes, nut loaf, bread sauce, pigs in blankets.

Definitely rest but an hour for a 12lb bird is about right.
It means the bird is more tender and easier to carve.
I cover with foil and then put a clean towel over to keep the heat in.
The resting time is perfect for roasting the potatoes and cooking the veg.

I only recently learnt that you have to rest meat after roasting. Why did my Mum never tell me?

I am very interested to see how this thread pans out. Not that I'll be cooking any turkeys in the foreseeable.

I rest all my roasted meat. It relaxes it and will be more tender.

I cover the turkey in foil to keep it warm. It rests for about an hour during which I roast the spuds, parsnips, stuffing etc. Meanwhile, I either over cook the sprouts, or forget to turn the heat on under their pan. It's a tradition, started by my mother. She excelled and on more than one occasion, burnt not only the sprouts but the pan.

I’m a bit embarrassed to admit I still own a hostess trolley !! It is kept out of site in a very convenient cupboard but The turkey would go in their to rest for about 45 minutes if I were ever to cook one again

In my turkey cooking days, I never rested a bird for longer than 20 minutes. I have this "thing" about hot food and resting it for over two hours is too long and the bird would have cooled down.

I do the same as GrannyGravy13, Turkey is still plenty hot enough.

I rest mine covered in tin foil for at least an hour, frees up the oven for the roast potatoes, parsnips, stuffing etc.

I rest it but not for that long, probably long enough to turn up the oven temperature and finish off the roast potatoes ie 20 minutes.
I covered it with tinfoil.
It shouldn't dry out, it should let the juices go through it.

Well, I used to when I did cook one.

It would be only lukewarm by then! I just rest mine for half an hour (and we usually have a very big one!)