Christmas turkey cooked in the converted Rayburn

As it is the first Christmas we have had the converted Rayburn, I wanted to try cooking the Christmas dinner in it, to see how it performed.

We had an 11lb turkey with stuffing, pigs in blankets, and roast potatoes cooked in the oven, and sprouts, carrots and peas boiled on the hob.

I set the oven dial to 6 1/3, which corresponds to just over 200 deg C on my oven thermometer. For the first hour, the turkey was uncovered, after which I put foil over the top to stop it burning. Pigs in blankets were added to the turkey after about 1 hour too. The potatoes were roasted at the top of the top oven. And all the vegetables were boiled on the hob, at a setting of about 6.

It took about 3 hours, and turned out succulent and very tasty. I was doing it to test the Rayburn, to see if it was capable of cooking a large meal, and I am delighted to say it coped extremely well.

As you can see from the second picture, we were taking no chances…