Stop your Christmas turkey from drying out this year with expert's simple bacon hack
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If you're in charge of the Christmas feast this year, you'll definitely want to serve a succulent turkey that will impress your guests. Keeping the turkey moist can be quite the challenge while you're busy with other dishes, but fear not - there are a few reliable tricks for that.
One unexpected technique involves an item often found in your breakfast spread: bacon. Not only fantastic for creating delicious pigs in blankets, bacon can also save your turkey from drying out. READ MORE: Hating Brussels sprouts at Christmas could mean you have 'super' genetic power.
Ditching the usual suggestion of keeping the turkey in a muslin cloth, bacon has been hailed as an equally effective alternative, reports the Daily Record. Suzanne Mulholland, famed as The Batch Lady and known for her savvy cooking on a budget advice, revealed her insights on ensuring a moist turkey.
She suggested: "Cover your whole turkey in streaky bacon. That bacon you can eat it, it's like the bacon around your chipolata what it does is it acts like a second skin, and the fat from the bacon helps keep the top of your turkey beautifully moist with the butter.".
For those who prefer more traditional methods, the muslin cloth technique is still a solid choice, as highlighted by none other than Great British Bake-Off's own Prue Leith. She explained: "[Get] a J cloth or a piece of muslin, dip it in boiling water don't use a red J cloth because then the dye comes out of them, but the blue ones don't.
"I usually dip them in boiling water first, wring them out, dip them into melted butter and drape it over the turkey. You're actually cooking the turkey under a melting butter muslin thing, and the cloth prevents the turkey from browning too quickly.".
