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SAFEFOOD HAS ISSUED advice again this year to help people to avoid spreading bacteria or making their dinner guests ill this Christmas
Turkey can carry food poisoning bacteria, just like chicken, but proper cooking will kill that bacteria.
Safefood has reminded Christmas cooks that proper preparation of the turkey is important too, if they want to avoid spreading the bacteria around their home or onto other food.
When preparing the turkey:
If you are stuffing the turkey, remember to:
This only applies to birds cooked in electric, fan assisted ovens. For other oven types, cook your stuffing in a separate oven-proof dish.
When cooking the turkey, Safefood recommends you:
Once you think it is cooked, piece the thickest party of the breast meat with a clean fork or skewer. If the juices run clear, there is no pink meat and the turkey is piping hot all the way though, your bird is done.
First timers
Safefood said for 25% of people, this will be their first time cooking Christmas dinner and their research shows about 22% of Christmas cooks are nervous about the task ahead.
Over four in 10 of those cooking the dinner will wash the turkey before cooking and only half will check the colour of juices.
In 2018, more than 103,000 people visited the food safety website just between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to find Christmas cooking advice.
Chef and restaurateur JP McMahon has offered this advice to novices:
“Christmas is the best time of the year, but the pressure to make equally the best meal of the year is very high. Being prepared is the key, so if you have a clear idea of what you are doing and follow proper food hygiene practices, you’re off to a great start!
“The most important thing is that you enjoy the day, so don’t put yourself under too much pressure to cook overly complicated recipes. Plan everything out beforehand and stick to that plan.”
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No, really? FFS, when are they going to crack down on bookies. Not only giving free range to every criminal to explain their strange excess of money is all “from a good day on the horses”. Betting isn’t a right and has serious negative social consequences as it is, nevermind how open it is to abuse from criminality. Regulate so accounts are linked to a pps number. Make gamblers pay tax on their annual profits (not all winnings) and have all payouts accounted for. Make the lads at the tracks scan a card. They’re making more than enough money, they can well afford the overheads
@*The* Brendan Gordon: stop..
@*The* Brendan Gordon: Ah, give it a rest. What about my pal from Drumcondra who is a wizz at picking the ponies and he doesn’t have a bank account. Crack down on the bookies and he’ll be only coming to me for another dig out.
Legalise drugs.
The taxpayer is funding irish racing by 64 million this year. why isin’t the bookies funding it.
So it’s not just Bertie who doesn’t have a bank account?
C.A.B :so where did you accumulate this money?
Shytebag:good day at race’s paaal
@Gavin Murphy: ah dont talk about Bertie like that. He’s lovely
Either way…..
The bookies still win.
BREAKING NEWS: Criminals launder money
@Peter W: hope they don’t mix the €100 with the €50 bills!!!!! the colors could run!!!
This has been going on since Gilligan at least. According to the books. I know nothing about this kinda thing and I knew this.
@Eoin Scanlon: wow that was some oxymoron right there!!!
What happen if they lose the bet ?
@Dominic Leleu: this won’t change, bookies have too much influence in this country. The US, for its many other ills, has addressed this and has gambling controls that would never be accepted by the lobbyists here.
Hardly surprising. Drug dealers, Bookies etc. They’re from the same group of bloodsuckers that prey on the vulnerable, the addicts, the youth and the less well off. It’s sold as fun.
For well over ten years this is going on and there is so many choices to hide the money with, PP, Bet365, William Hill, Betdak etc.
Used to work in a bookmakers myself, and one or two of our “customers” who were obviously drug dealers or involved in crime would have us keep their money in our safe overnight, sometimes maybe 2 grand in cash, nobody ever said a word, so it’s hardly surprising this goes on. And they would always bet big on races often 200/300 a go. You would want to be Mr Bean to not be able to work out what they are doing
It’s all old hat, everybody knows that Paddy Power and Boyles were allowed to grow their shop chain on drug money.
I see the Helen Lovejoy brigade are out in force this morning.
@Weldoninhio: Answers on a postcard please to Paddy Powers Pr division and the Dept of Sureweloveannaulrogue
Morally reprehensible, and the drug dealers are even worse.
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