What’s on the Resting Meat poster
A 6-row table: Cut · Rest · Carryover.
Rest uncovered or loosely tented; wrapping tightly softens any crust.
- Steak — 5–10 min — +2–3°C
- Chicken breast — 5–10 min — +2–3°C
- Whole chicken — 15–20 min — +3–5°C
- Roast joint — 20–30 min — +5–8°C
- Large roast / turkey — 30–45 min — +5–10°C
- Fish — 2–3 min — Minimal
Carryover cooking is real: pull large roasts 5–8°C below target, because they keep cooking while they rest.
Questions about the Resting Meat poster
- What’s on the Resting Meat poster?
- A 6-row table: Cut · Rest · Carryover. Rest uncovered or loosely tented; wrapping tightly softens any crust. Steak — 5–10 min — +2–3°C; Chicken breast — 5–10 min — +2–3°C; Whole chicken — 15–20 min — +3–5°C; Roast joint — 20–30 min — +5–8°C; Large roast / turkey — 30–45 min — +5–10°C; Fish — 2–3 min — Minimal. Carryover cooking is real: pull large roasts 5–8°C below target, because they keep cooking while they rest.
- Who is the Resting Meat poster for?
- Resting Meat belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning technique can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Resting Meat poster?
- Carve immediately and the juice ends up on the board instead of in the meat. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Resting Meat belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Resting Meat?
- Batch Cooking, Blanching and Braising sit alongside Resting Meat in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Batch CookingBlanchingBraising
- Is the Resting Meat poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Resting Meat downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Resting Meat poster print at?
- Resting Meat is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Resting Meat loses nothing.Printing guide
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