Call me a hypocrite: even though I toss and turn when I sleep, I hate when my sausage bigs in their bacon blankets wiggle out of their salty duvets as they cook.

I’m always left with tough, rubbery rashers and half-burnt, half-pale sausages, neither of which taste anything like as good as their combined selves.

But executive head chef Aaron Craig at The Milner York said I may be “making Christmas dinner harder than it needs to be” – preventing them from bursting is simpler than you might think.

How can I stop pigs in blankets from splitting open?

It’s down to one factor, Craig said: your oven settings.

“If your pigs in blankets burst,........

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