cooking tips

Thanksgiving Feast

Meal Preparation Tips

Preparing an entire feast in one day is overwhelming, so do as much preparation the day before as you

can. If you are baking any pies or desserts they are best done earlier in the day or the day before and

with two Convection ovens you can get a lot of baking done at one time.

To maximize the oven capacity, begin by roasting the turkey in the multi-function oven, allow

approximately 2 hours to cook a 20lb turkey and 40 minutes for the resting, carving and gravy making

process, you can even cook a turkey in both ovens at the same time. Once the turkey is cooked you can

cook several side dishes at one time in the Convection oven and use the Multi-Function oven to cook

the biscuits and everything will be ready at the same time.

The major dierence when cooking a turkey in Convection is that we don’t use a deep roasting pan.

Because the turkey is roasted on a rack in a shallow pan the juices stay in the turkey so making gravy

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Remove the turkey from the wrapping, remove the giblets from both cavities wash the bird inside

and out with cold water and pat dry with paper towels.

Season the turkey as per the recipe, place on a shallow pan and cover with plastic wrap and return to

Make the giblet stock that will be the base for the gravy, as per the recipe.

Prep the vegetables for the vegetable medley and for any other side dishes you plan to serve.

Make the cranberry sauce.

Cooking time – a 15-20lb un-stued turkey will take approximately 2 hours to cook in Convection as

per our recipe.

Resting time – allow at least 20 minutes for the turkey to rest before carving.

Carving time – allow at least 10-15 minutes for carving the turkey.

During the 40 minutes of resting and carving time –

2. Make the gravy.