Controlled Cooking

To follow this method successfully two things are essential: an oven thermometer and a digital meat thermometer. The first is needed so that you can keep a check on your oven’s true temperature, and the latter so that you can read the core temperature of large joints and birds and cook to your liking every time. Controlled cooking is a matter of knowing what core cooking temperature you need to give you rare, medium and well done meat after allowing for the residual cooking that will occur during resting. The amount of residual cooking will vary depending on the temperature at which you cooked the meat or poultry.