Here we go again, run up to Christmas and the food pages are full of useful hints and tips on how to roast the perfect turkey, giving people a timing of mins per 450g/lb. Not very useful when pack weights are in kg only! [article contributed by Roz Denny]
Working on this illogical logic, the ‘useful’ hint should start:
- Get out your calculator.
- Work out how many 450g there are in your pre-weighed (in kg) bird dividing by 0.450g
- Multiply by the 450g units by time in mins.
Compare this to a useful timing of mins per kg:
- Multiply the time in mins by the kg weight.
(However, if you are following an old recipe from a favourite cookbook for other birds e.g. goose or duck or a joint of beef/ham/pork, simply multiply the mins per 450g/ lb by 2.2 to get the kg weight timings).
- More information on cooking in metric is given on UKMA’s main website https://ukma.org.uk/practical-help/cooking/.
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