[Preps?] Frozen Turkey vs. Fresh Turkey - A Question

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While I don't think Columbus is going to get nuked anytime soon, I am worried about disruptions and/or tampering with our food supply. I have enough of the "basics" to avoid shopping for quite a while, but I was reminded of my offer to cook a turkey for approximately four guests.

Having said all that, here's my question: I normally pick up a fresh bird a day or so before from a farmer, but he's not selling birds this year, so that means if I want to get a bird tomorrow, my choices are a fresh, never-frozen one that I'll have to freeze or a frozen one.

Which one, cooks, will probably taste better, or won't it make that much of a difference because I'm dealing with a frozen bird?

Lastly, yes, it has to be turkey. Two of the guests have some sort of food allergies. Were I dining alone, I'd grill a steak, topped with a few of those "jet fresh" shrimp that I was whinning about in another thread.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001

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-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001

All meats have a "freezer life". Poultry and pork are good for about six months--then they start to taste kinda funky. If you don't know how long the bird has been frozen (and you usually don't), I'd go for the fresh bird and freeze it. That way you know for sure.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001

Steak and shrimp...sigh...

They have these giant prawns at the grocery store I've been dying to try, but I've never had any luck cooking shrimp. I always manage to over-cook them.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001


BK, try steaming them. I get a good boil going, drop in the steamer, and sample a shrimp after three minutes.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001

If your two choices are fresh, never frozen that you will have to freeze and an already frozen one, I would go for the frozen one because they fast freeze them and in our home freezers it takes so much longer. If I were going to do it for that small a party, I would purchase a nice big turkey breast. We stuff them and find they are quite wonderful. :>)

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001


Okay, one vote for fresh-frozen; one for frozen-frozen. (:

Diane, that's a good idea. I'll give your suggestion some thought, too. The only downside is that I like to toss the turkey carcass into the stock pot for turkey soup, and the breast meat is just meat, right?

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001


yeah, just meat, no nipple.

ROTFLMAO

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001


You have a breast bone etc. with the turkey breast as sold in the stores and I have used it for soup. (nipples removed at processing ;>)

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001

Buy a frozen one. The others are often frozen ones that have been thawed.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001

Lots of the good hotels have wonderful buffets at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. . . Great for those with allergies and people like us (I only eat fish, no meat; and Sweetie has his peculiarities :)

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2001


Thanks! I will keep all of these suggestions in mind.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2001

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