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Thanksgiving Dinner: Your Turkey Cooking Guide
Plan your Thanksgiving meal program with our complete cooking guide to preparing sides and main courses in your Alto-Shaam commercial kitchen equipment. From take home meal kits to traditional sit down gatherings, we have you covered!
Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Whether you are serving up take home meal kits or offering a traditional sit-down experience, it’s easy to add a Thanksgiving dinner to your menu using your Alto-Shaam equipment.
Turkeys can be made in the combi oven, Vector® F Series Multi-Cook Oven, or Cook & Hold Oven – cooked to perfection in a few short hours or slowly roasted overnight and held at a precise temperature until the next morning.
Combi Ovens
Prodigi™ Pro Combi Oven with Probe
- Preheat the oven to 300° Fahrenheit.
- Cook in convection mode for 10 minutes at 250° Fahrenheit.
- Cook in combi mode at 250° Fahrenheit using the probe to cook the meat to an internal temperature at 165° Fahrenheit at 100% humidity and 60% fan.
Combi Oven Manually
- Preheat the oven to 300° Fahrenheit.
- Cook in combi mode at 250° Fahrenheit at 100% humidity and 60% fan.
- Cook for 10 minutes per pound of turkey.
- For the last 15 minutes, raise the temperature to 400° Fahrenheit to improve the color of the birds.
Vector® F Series Multi-Cook Ovens
- Preheat the oven to 300° Fahrenheit.
- Set the probe to cook until the turkey reaches an internal temperature of 165° Fahrenheit, setting the fan speed at 30% with an oven temperature of 250° Fahrenheit.
- Cook time will last approximately 1 hour.
Cook & Hold Ovens
Deluxe Control
- Set the cook temperature to 250° Fahrenheit. Set the probe to have an internal temperature of 150° Fahrenheit.
- Set the hold temperature to 160° Fahrenheit.
- Hold a minimum of two hours.
Simple Control
- Set your cooking temperature to 250° Fahrenheit.
- Cook 10 minutes for every pound of turkey. If you are cooking more than one turkey, add 30 minutes for each additional turkey. So if you are cooking two 17-pound turkeys, you will need to set the cook time for 200 minutes (three hours and 30 minutes).
- Set the hold temperature to 160° Fahrenheit. Hold the Thanksgiving turkeys for a minimum of two hours.
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