What do I do with this turkey now that Christmas is postponed?

[Anonymous]

Got an expensive organic free range feel good turkey Friday to cook for a family Christmas Eve gathering but now have a household with covid. Christmas with extended family is postponed at least a week.

What do I do with the turkey? Only two people here eat turkey and no one really has an appetite anyway. Family lives far away so they can't pick it up and I feel weird offering neighbors a sick-house turkey. There's probably not enough room for the whole bird in the freezer.

[Anonymous]

Do you have the energy to cook it, pick it, and freeze?

[Anonymous]

soup?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have the energy to cook it, pick it, and freeze?

That’s what I would do if you feel up to it. Just roast it with whatever you have around— an union, garlic, lemon, thyme in the cavity if you have any, salt pepper, and butter or olive oil on the skin. When it has roasted, cut the breast as ne big piece, the legs as whole pieces if you can, and freeze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have the energy to cook it, pick it, and freeze?

That’s what I would do if you feel up to it. Just roast it with whatever you have around— an union, garlic, lemon, thyme in the cavity if you have any, salt pepper, and butter or olive oil on the skin. When it has roasted, cut the breast as ne big piece, the legs as whole pieces if you can, and freeze.

Maybe enough energy to do that, after a nap. But would I risk freezing a virus that could reactivate? I can mask while packing it up I guess and hand wash as usual

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have the energy to cook it, pick it, and freeze?

That’s what I would do if you feel up to it. Just roast it with whatever you have around— an union, garlic, lemon, thyme in the cavity if you have any, salt pepper, and butter or olive oil on the skin. When it has roasted, cut the breast as ne big piece, the legs as whole pieces if you can, and freeze.

Maybe enough energy to do that, after a nap. But would I risk freezing a virus that could reactivate? I can mask while packing it up I guess and hand wash as usual

I'd just wash my hands and do it.

But here is the science: https://asm.org/press-releases/2022/july/sars-cov-2-may-survive-long-term-on-frozen-meat,-s#:~:text=Meat%2C%20Study%20Shows-,SARS%2DCoV%2D2%20May%20Survive%20Long%2Dterm,on%20Frozen%20Meat%2C%20Study%20Shows&text=Washington%2C%20D.C.%20%E2%80%93%20SARS%2DCoV,the%20American%20Society%20for%20Microbiology.

[Anonymous]

Just freeze it.