December 13, 2007 · Uncategorized

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Your Christmas present from safefood: a safe and tasty stuffed turkey
At Christmas time we previously recommended that it was safest to cook your stuffing outside the turkey.
But we know Christmas isn’t the same without stuffing, so this year we set out to develop some new advice on how to cook a stuffed bird safely. For the last few months we have been testing different cooking times in a specialist laboratory kitchen, with professional tasters on hand to score the results.
Now we can give you some new cooking times, which guarantee that this Christmas your family will enjoy turkey at its very best – and complete with all the trimmings.
How to cook your turkey
For the safest, tastiest stuffed turkey this Christmas, follow these steps:
* The amount of stuffing you use should weigh no more than 10% of the weight of the bird
* When stuffing the cavity, pack it as loosely as [...]


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