What is The Most Meals You Gotten From a Turkey ?

[Nyboy]

Thanksgiving is right around the comer. Lucky mention in a another thread how many meals she made from 1 chicken. made me wonder about turkey. Let say a meal can feed 2 people, how many meals can you squeeze out?

 

[majorcatfish]

have never really kept a record on far a bird goes, it will be interesting...
thursday will be putting on 2 13lbs whole birds on the smoker....for laughs and giggles will do the math this weekend when we debone, freeze and boil them down...

 

[seedcorn]

When I was single (& broke) I would cook a turkey-one of those cheap 22# ones. I'd eat until next Tday. Yes, I froze some.

 

[Smart Red]

I will never know because I always send most of the leftovers home with DS and his family.

Still, after the better part of a week with turkey something, it seems I am eating at least one turkey meal a week for most of January, and February. December is usually turkey-free due to overdosing that last week in November.

 

[Beekissed]

Don't know as we are never just feeding two people with a turkey. Family comes out, eats their fill, then we take the left over turkey and use all the bigger pieces for sandwiches(my favorite part of Thanksgiving meal), then the smaller pieces for salad. Don't know if you count the stuffing as part of the turkey, though it has giblets in it and all, but that too is part of the additional left over meals, as is the turkey gravy made from part of the drippings.

I'll boil down the carcass and add to it the drippings from the pan, pick the carcass and add that back to the stock, then freeze it for later soup. Even with all that family eating from it, we get approx. 5 meals~first with the crowd, then with just us two.

Ultimately, 6 meals when you figure in that the dogs eat the carcass and skin when I'm done making stock.

 

[baymule]

Good question, but I am not cooking the turkey. Our son in law is and I gladly bow out to give him all the glory.

 

[Nyboy]

LOL Bay I can honesty say, I have never in my life cooked a turkey

 

[bobm]

LOL Bay I can honesty say, I have never in my life cooked a turkey

Well NYboy... here you have the prefect opportunity to roast your first bird. NO PROCRASTINATION allowed !!! Thursday is the day, today go buy the bird. If frozen, thaw it in the refrigerator... but that takes 2-3 days depending on size of bird. So buy it fresh and keep it in your refrigerator. Wednesday, check with Martha for the best and easiest recipe for a perfectly roasted bird. NO ordering already roasted bird as you will not be able to brag on a well done job. Bright and early Thursday morning set your plan into action so that when dinner time rolls around, the Thanksgiving bird will be the centerpiece of the feast.

 

[digitS']

What IS the easiest way to cook a turkey?

I have always imagined that cooking them without stuffing is a recipe for a very dry bird! And yet, some people do that. (Those who don't think to take the giblets, neck, and gravy bags out - Toss The Bird, so what do they know?!) Do those who don't do the stuffing know something I don't?

Not that the dressing amounts to any actual work. Perhaps undercooked turkey would be less likely by not stuffing the bird.

Surely, some folks dismember the turkey. We have a NuWave oven and that should be able to handle a 5 pound chicken. I'd be willing to cut up the turkey first if it meant less carving, and carving mistakes with the roasted bird ... Maybe a complete deboning and going from there. Boiled? Yikes!

Steve

 

[bobm]

Steve, if you are handy with a boning knife... debone a fresh turkey then roll the meat up and tie it all up with a string, place into oven and roast. ( for instructions on how to debone a turkey... Google how to debone a turkey ( or chicken ) and/ or how to prepare a turduckhen ) . Stuffing cooked seperately. PS: If you cook the turkey in a electric roaster rather than the oven, put the turkey in,( no stuffing required ) cover the lid, check for cooking time and take it out when time is up . Result - a moist melt in your mouth bird.