Does it matter where you buy your turkey?
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Anonymous
| If you enjoy roasted turkey -- which I, for one, definitely do -- does it matter to you where you purchase it? Grocery store, fancier grocery store, really special butcher/farm shop? |
Anonymous
| We always get the regular grocery store Butterball turkey and it turns out great. My sister gets a fancy heritage turkey when she hosts and that’s really good too. How you cook it is more important. |
Anonymous
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In 46 years of Thanksgiving, I've had exactly one turkey that stood out and it was a heritage from a poultry farm. All other times the turkey tasted the same and always on the drier side, whether fancy or butterball.
Agree that how you cook and baste makes more of a difference. |
Anonymous
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They mostly come from the same places.
Raise your own if you want something different. Or get a wild one. |
Anonymous
| Cook your turkey breast side down and you’ll have a moist breast. Forget about the crunchy top shouldn’t need the skin anyway. |
Anonymous
| Popeye's |
Anonymous
| We order one from the poultry place at our Farmer’s Market. That is worthwhile. Otherwise, any grocery store turkey is largely interchangeable. |
Anonymous
Nooooo!!!! Just don’t overcook it and it will be lovely, but the skin is amazing! |
Anonymous
| I have had amazing frozen butter balls and bleh farm raised. |