can you cook a small full sized turkey in a grill part of a cooker?

Is the upper compartment a combination grill/oven (some types are)?

If you have a bog enough air fryer that would be an option.

If it is a grill/oven combi use the main oven for the turkey and the upper one for the rest. Do a test run to check temperatures and timings.

ETA - it’s just a grill.

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FFS why even think you could grill a turkey? Use the main oven. Or, safer again, have somebody who knows what they're doing look after it.

OP - How in the name of Baby Jebus did you think that a turkey would fit in that?! It's barely big enough for thin rashers.

Well, at least you know now that it is not a goer. Turkey needs to go in an oven - not under a grill.

I'm calling bullshit on this :-)

Nice try

In fairness, you've got form for such shenanigans. Myself and others have given you the benefit of doubt and provided relevant comment and advice.

Good luck with cooking your Christmas Dinner.

What are you putting in the main oven? Roast potatoes and a few other things I imagine. Roast your turkey first, wrap it up in tinfoil, put it into a cardboard box tin and all and surround it with towels/old duvet/whatever, you need to rest the meat anyway and it would still be toasty hot and nicely rested after an hour tucked up like that. It won't do you any harm, all chefs agree you must rest the meat before cutting. You can then use the oven for all the other stuff, hour and a half say is plenty of time to roast potatoes. Better still have some of the other stuff ready earlier too and just heat up.

I used to transport christmas dinner to my dad's house for many years, not enough room to cook it there so cooked at home and brought the lot, I had one of those big insulated boxes for the turkey plus lots of wrapping etc, still boiling hot when opened after at least an hour and sometimes longer.

Another alternative cook turkey day before, cool, slice it up, into fridge and reheat next day in bit of gravy, even nicer than cooked fresh I think.

You rest the meat for 10 mins not an hour.

The poster if serious needs to invest in an airfryer.

Apart from it getting cold.

Yeah ok.

It is mate. More than enough.

Id say ten to fifteen mins is more than enough. Otherwise get the microwave ready.

On a serious note, has anyone tried a slow cooker. Mine seems to dry out a lot in a conventional oven

Its poultry in motion.

If your turkey is dry it's overcooked.

There is a myriad of tricks and tips for moist turkey, from basting, injecting, deep frying, slow cooking, cooking upside down, etc. But the simple reality is that an overcooked turkey is a dry turkey.

I poach the turkey crown, which works great and frees up the oven, but if I overcook it, it will be dry, no question.

I rest my turkey for the hour that I roast my veg. Wrapped in foil and covered in a couple of tea towels - still grand and warm when it comes to serving.

Why can't you just boil your ham and cook the turkey and other bits in the main oven? It has more than one shelf presumably.