Remember to stock up on turkeys if your local grocery stores are doing doorbuster deals.My local store has $0.27/lbs turkeys with $40 purcahse and a limit of 2 turkeys per visit.So far I'm at $21.61 for ~80lbs of turkey.
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>>21709288Money is tight and turkey tastes good if you know how to prepare it.I also stock up on other shit when it goes on good sale like pork butts.
>>21709302>money is tight so I'm going to blow $40 for the opportunity to buy two of the lowest quality turkeys availableGee, I wonder why money's tight for you
>>21709307It's $40 at a grocery store, not $40 at Dunkin' Donuts. Do you not buy $40 or more worth of groceries in a week?I in no way had to "blow" $40 to get the turkeys I bought my normal groceries and ALSO got two turkeys.
enjoy all that dry ass bird
>>21709313>Do you not buy $40 or more worth of groceries in a week?I see more than two turkeys in your pic. Trying to slip by that you spent $80 and are planning to spend more? Very disingenuous, as I would expect from a financially illiterate poorfag retard.
>>21709317Anon, the sale has been up for several days already, and I live with my family, we easily spend $200/week on groceries, splitting that into 2 or even 3-4 $40 trips isn't a problem.Also just because I'm frugal with my meat purchases doesn't mean i'm a poorfag, I've got plenty of money but you're retarded if you haven't noticed the cost of food going up significantly over the past year, and this price per lbs is the best price it's going to be all year.>>21709315Just admit you don't know how to cook turkey.Dry brine for 24-36 hours, stuff under the breast with 1/4lbs to 1lbs of butter (depends on the size of the bird) with fresh (or dried) herbs. You can also substitute mayo instead of butter.I've literally made turkeys that have been in my freezer for over a year and had them come out moist, tender, and flavorful.
I would rather spend more money than have to eat turkey more than once a year. I'd rather eat rice and beans than eat turkey.
>>21709334I swear, you people just can't cook if that's how you feel.I'll take a roast turkey over a roast chicken if i'm going by pure flavor.Chicken is just faster and more convenient size/weight for an average meal.But right now whole chickens are $1.60-3.50/lbs for me depending on the brand. Why would I spend that much when a turkey is $0.27/lbs?I know how to cook it and the carcass makes for excellent stock that can be used in place of any poultry stock. Do you also avoid buying cheap pork butts and similar cuts when they're on sale because they require specific recipes to do right?
>>21709266God you're so poor and lonely.
>>21709348Do you really think i'm making a whole turkeys for myself alone?
>21709307>21709315>21709334>21709348These people are absolutely pathetic. >>21709345I'm not a big fan of turkey but definitely understand where you're coming from. Pork butts are a great bulk purchase
>>21709369People just be trolling. It was a good deal, anon.
>>21709324>Cooks year old turkeyThis is how I've done it for years. The week after Thanksgiving when it's always cheap we buy the bird for next year, never been a problem.
>>21709404USDA says frozen turkeys are safe to keep indefinitely, but should be used within 12-18 months for the best flavor.
>>21709404Not a bad idea. I should invest in a freezer
>>21709404My local store has the deal running the first two weeks of november, sometimes it'll get extended to/past the holiday itself, but it depends on how many turkeys they have available.They never get any cheaper than $0.27/lbs for me though, at least not in the last ~8-10 years.I've been doing this for about 15 years.
>>21709345desu you're right in some ways but it's mostly that I work 13 hours a day so convenience unfortunately takes priority in my life. like the other guy said pork butts are great but turkey is simply too much work. it's not even cooking the turkey it's just storing them and I don't even have the time to make stock. my freezers are already full of chicken and pork. I get like 3 turkeys for free every year from my employer and that's already too much for me.
Best way to defrost a frozen turkey? Leave it in a cooler in the garage for a day or two?
>>21709423I work from home so it's not really a problem for me.I only go into the office once a month.My go-tos are pork butts and turkeys but i've also stocked up on various other bulk meats on sale, the highest end was $18/lbs prime beef tenderloins when they were normally $25-35/lbs. Sometimes i'll grab a bunch of chuck roasts if they're doing a decent sale price and they look good, love doing a good beef stew.
>>21709431Depends on the size.I usually just use the bottom shelf of my fridge.24 hours per 4-5 lbs is my generally go-to. Most whole turkeys that I buy are between 12-30lbs. So anywhere from 2.5-7 days. I wouldn't personally recommend just leaving it in a cooler as you can't control the surface temp and while it'll likely stay above the "danger zone" you can't control that. I'd only recommend this if your garage is going to stay below 50f 24/7.
>>21709433I eat all of my meals at work on work days because I go to bed 90 minutes after I open my front door. Even crock pot cooking is annoying because then I have to come home and put it in storage and cook noodles or rice or something and then by the time I'm done showering, doing laundry, eating and doing dishes it's time to sleep.It's all so tiring.
>>21709468i'm sorry anon, i don't think I could do that personally.
>>21709266I'm pretty jealous, OP. Those look like good turkeys.>>21709468Same for me. I get off work at 7, and usually by 8:30 I'm falling asleep. I come home, shower, have some Cheerios or something, then try my best to stay awake until at least 10 but I usually fail.
Oh hey turkeybro. We spoke last year. I'm the other turkeybro. My usual store hasn't put up a sale yet but they put their entire freezer stock on 50% discount, presumably to make space for the turkeys. I'll know the price this week, tho.
>>21709560God speed fellow turkeybro, i hope they have a good price for you this year.
>>21709468>>21709480What do you guys do for work
>>21709307
>>21709726i work at a factory for procter and gamble. standard shift is 12 and a half hours not counting getting there early to get ready or leaving late
>>21709307you should die>can’t read>can’t appreciate the animals life>can’t see the value in having 10 pounds of meat for 5 bucksjust say you get factor delivered to your door
>>21709574They always do.The deal is $5 for any turkey, regardless of weight, if you spend $35 dollars, limit two turkeys per visit. I bought slippers for me, missus and kiddo last year and got a 22lb dinosaur and a nearly 21lb behemoth by showing up at opening and snagging my turkeys /then/ looking around for things we need that reach that minimum. 43lbs of meat for $10 IE 23¢/lb. Can't beat that shit.I honestly don't know how that store stays in business. It's an independent chain of shops and they're always right near a larger chain supermarket. The one we go to most often is directly across the street from a Safeway and the second one is a block away from an IGA. Their prices are the best on most things.I'm actually omw there now to buy, and I know this sounds gross, expired milk. We make paneer with it.
>>21710338Nice, so far this year I've got two 14lbers, a 24lber, and a massive 27.5lber.
>>21710339>27.5lber>24lberJesus Christ. I didn't even know they get that big. Fuck me.
>>21710354The 27.5er almost didn't fit on the freezer shelf.The largest I've EVER had was 32-33lbs, but it's been over a decade since I've seen one that large at my grocery store. My mom claims she got a 38-40lbs turkey back in the early 90s, but I was too young to remember.These days my local store's turkeys are generally 13-23lbs so 27.5lbs is probably the largest I'll get for this year.
Nice haul. My freezer space is reserved for beef though, because that's on sale much less frequently. Turkeys are cheap enough that they're always a good deal. Half off beef is more valuable than 80% off turkeys when they take up too much space. I'm thinking of getting a chest freezer so I don't have to choose or so I can just buy sides of beef.
>>21710377I do beef as well when it's on sale, it's just on sale a lot less often and when it does go on sale it's not as good of a sale compared to chicken/pork/turkey.
>>21710386>I do beef as well when it's on saleDamn turkeybro. You and I really are kindred. I got so many prime ribs last Christmas. At $4.66-$4.99/lb at various stores, they were basically giving them away.Prime rib is so fucking good. I don't even really like beef very much and my wife is literally Hindu yet we eat prime rib a fucktonne.
>>21710389And everyone's stupid who doesn't get that deal you get.
>>21709878>12 and a half hoursoh say can you seeeeeeeeee
>>21709266What like the smallest pound turkey I could reasonably get? I usually only cook for a very small group of people and I dont believe in the whole Thanksgiving leftover thing. Im tired of playing the game with guests where you offer to take food and they refuse or they only take enough for a single meal leaving me with more than I can eat.
>thread where one lonely faggot says retarded shit and seethes when people call him out, then proceeds to write a bunch of insipid blogs nobody asked forWhy is this so common on this shit board?
>>2171041510-12lbsYou can also look for a bone-in breast roast in the 5-10lbs range.
>>21710421We know you're the same faggot who has been shitting up the thread with your pathetic attempts to portray OP as lonely/poor.
>>21710408Yeah, it's like living in an "Italian" Catholic area and not stocking up on seafood on Ash Wednesday or the week before Christmas, when it's at its cheapest. King crab for $17/lb (normal price $40+), snow for $6 (normal price $11+). Shrimp for $4 (normal price $7). Live, organic mussels for $1.50/lb ($2.50). Scallops for a song (arm and a leg). Mackerel and pilchard for $1.49-$2/lb ($3.50). Salmon steaks for $7 ($11). Etc etc etcIt's precisely because people don't take advantage of sales and deals that they're stuck with higher prices. Yes, I'm the Safeway guy so here's yet another Safeway spiel:Because the algorithm notices that my wife and I are "price sensitive shoppers", they routinely send us coupons for ridiculously cheap shit or just $5 off coupons with no catch. I can go to Safeway right now and grab a sandwich ($5.40 personalized price) and just pay 40¢. We don't even spend much there, that's the point. We buy nothing that's not on sale or managers special and with digital or paper coupons and the algorithm rewards that with even more discounts and coupons to keep us loyal. Meanwhile, I read an article last month about a bitch complaining that loyalty prices are bad because she doesn't get special discounts at Starbucks like her friend does even though she's a loyal customer and her friend isn't.No shit, bitch. You're already loyal. That's why you're not getting coupons. They know you'll pay $7 for your coffee regardless. These discounts aren't to reward loyalty. They're to entice you to stay. Since they already know you're gonna buy that shit regardless of the price, they won't give you a discount. Now me? I could go, use that $5 Safeway coupon at the in-store Starbucks coupled with a Starbucks digital discount and pay less than a dollar for one of their abominations then just not go again. And they'll send me a coupon to reduce the price down to "earn me back."That's how these digital cunts work.
Turkeys are fuckin cheap here even without a sale, I got a 20 pounder from WalMart yesterday for less than $17
>>21710576That's a good price, but 27.5lbs for $7.42 is hard to beat.
>>21710576I will never understand why anyone would do at Walmart for things other than cleaning/hygienic supplies, paper goods or sloppa if they have literally any other options. For regular food, they're more expensive than regular supermarkets 80% of the time.
>>21709726>What do you guys do for workRetail, 10-7 every day.
>>21709975>the value in having 10 pounds of meat for 5 bucks*45 bucks
>>21711151Even if you want to pretend the $40 is wasted (and it's easily not wasted if you're spending that money on groceries anyway, which most people are), it's still around $1.25/lbs.OP says>My local store has $0.27/lbs turkeys with $40 purcahse and a limit of 2 turkeys per visit.>So far I'm at $21.61 for ~80lbs of turkey.That's $101.61 for 80lbs of turkey which comes to about $1.27/lbs.And that's assuming you get ZERO value from the $40 spent on other items.
>>21710604Where do you live?Definitely not the case here. Shopping sales and specials at grocery stores you can do better but regular shelf prices are almost always higher than grocery prices at Walmart.
To the 2 turkeybrosI do like turkey but the roasting has always intimidated me compared to chicken which I do regularlyBased on what you've said in thread the dry brine for a day or 2 is how I already prepare my birdsis there any particular way you tend to roast your turkeys. Whole and stuffed? Spatchcocked? in parts? Also is there any method to easily remove that wicked bone (fibula maybe) from the drumstick?
>>21711218I personally do my roasts whole, no stuffing. Low and slow (300-325°F) covered with aluminium foil for the first 2-3 hours of cooking, then remove the aluminium foil in the final hour or so to brown the skin. The dry brine and butter (or mayo) under the breast skin really helps keep things nice and moist.I also use a digital meat thermometer and pull my turkey out at around 150F, not 165F since the temp will keep rising internally for a few minutes and turkey only needs 1-3 minutes at those temps to be safe from salmonella. People who go all the way to 165F end up overcooking the breast.
>>21711218>spatchcock if you've got a big enough sheet pan, definitely the way to go for even cooking>stuffedWith stuffing/dressing? No, I put some onions, celery, herbs, and a lemon in there instead if I'm not spatchcocking it
>>21711239>Low and slow (300-325°F) covered with aluminium foil for the first 2-3 hours of cooking, then remove the aluminium foil in the final hour or so to brown the skin.I've done "brown it at high heat to start" and "brown it at the end" and the former always turned out better for me, but maybe it's an oven thing>>21711239>The dry brine and butter (or mayo) under the breast skinI do butter mixed with fresh herbs under the skin, always turns out good
>>21711246Yeah I tend to make an herb + shallot butter to usePic related, herb butter cut into slices and stuffed under the skin and then some thrown on top as well.
>>21711209Delamuhware but this was even more true when I lived in Philamuhdelphia. With very very very few exceptions, Walmart is consistently more expensive for fresh food for me. Great prices on canned fish, pantry staples and condiments but the prices on any fresh meat, produce or fish is easily beat by any supermarket in my area. >>21711218I'm the other turkeybro (not OP) I stopped brining my turkeys after noticing that it has no greatly measurable difference. I just cook it properly and it's moist. As for the format, whole is fine but I prefer to spatchcock it so that I can use the back (and wingtips) for a quick stock for gravy. I did it in parts last year and the year before (maybe even the one before that?) because it's just three of us, me, missus and kiddo, so the turkey titty was enough. We roasted the thighs at later points and my wife used the wings and drumsticks from last Thanksgiving in curries and the drumsticks two years ago went into soup while the wings were smoked then cooked with the greens. I don't know any way to remove that tendon-y thing from the drumstick and that's specifically why I smoke the wings for my greens rather than the legs. I wish I could just buy turkey wings. They're the perfect cut of turkey. Great in soup, great in curry, great roasted, great smoked just great overall (except for sandwiches).Now for the nitty gritty: 350° for me and I slather it under the skin with spiced mayonnaise. That's it. I use a programmable Bluetooth thermometer that screams at my phone when the turkey's done.I don't stuff turkey.
>>21711406You can't get turkey wings? Not even smoked?
So many brokies itt T_T
>>21711466Not reliably and fuck buying other people's smoked wings. They honestly don't taste as good as mine. I'm not sure what they do not half the time, they taste vaguely of tobacco. >>21711481I own my house and car outright and my wife and I are paying a mortgage on an apartment building but sure: I'm "broke.">to be fair, my parents bought me the house; they bought each of us, my brother, sister and I, our first houses.
in my shithole chicken is 7 dollars per pound
>>21709266I don't eat animal carcasses
>>21711669Chicken for me is ~$1.60-3.50/lbs unless I go for something higher end like a local farm chicken slaughtered fresh. Then it would be closer to $5-8/lbs.
>>21711624Not wanting someone else to smoke your stuff is reasonableThat being said, they work great if you're making green chili, they have to compete with some heavy hitters in that
>>21711250I don't know why, but that image makes me feel uncomfortable.
>>21711624>I'm not sure what they do not half the time, they taste vaguely of tobacco.Eep. I meant >I'm not sure what they do, BUT half the time, they taste vaguely of tobacco.>>21711782I make a smoked chicken carrot soup that's essentially a carrot-y chili. Smoked turkey pretty much goes exclusively into beans and greens for me.
Had to go to the store to grab some milk and bread, so another 2 turkeys added to the collectionAnother 29lbs for $7.86Brings our total haul this past week to $29.47 for 109lbs of turkey.
>>21713603Saw they were 25¢/lb, no minimum purchase, limit 2 turkeys, starting tomorrow at Lidl but I'm gonna wait until morning to check the GrossOut circular to see if they've got a better deal. Otherwise, we're getting Lidl turkeys this year.
>>21709266Gonna grab a free turkey from Winco and try to get another free/cheap one for the freezer. Don't have enough room for more than one but that's fine because I don't wanna cook and eat a big-ass turkey more than twice a year anyways.
>>21713674>don't wanna cook and eat a big-ass turkey more than twice a year anywaysFair, but turkey soup, stew, sandwiches, curries etc etc etcI even made Thanksgiving instant ramen when I was, like, 9 years old lmao
>>21713676Turkey tikka masala is fun for a change
>>21713674That's fair, but as I said earlier in the thread, I work from home and have no issues doing turkey roasts more regularly.It's fairly hands-off to be honest, you just need to be able to check on it every once in a while during the 2.5-6 hour cook time.
>>21713676I make a huge pot of stock every time also. Since I go for the free turkey offers I get the biggest one I can find which is usually 27+lb. Everything except the breast and thigh meat goes in, along with some extra necks if I can get them. Leftover meat usually gets made into gravy along with this stock to freeze since I don't like freezing cooked meat as-is, while a meaty gravy makes a great easy meal with some mashed potatoes.
>>21713693It's not the time investment so much that I'm so sick of turkey by the time I've eaten through most of it that it's a twice-a-year thing.
>>21709315Am I the only one who likes it dry?
>>21713708No, but you and people like you are wrong.
>>21713698>meaty gravy makes a great easy meal with some mashed potatoes.I mean… that's pretty much what pot roast is.>>21713708Only one i know of but different strokes. Nobody I've ever met IRL likes it dry but you do you, boo.
>>21713703I mean, i wouldn't want one every week, or even every month.But every 2 months is just about right for my personal tastes.
>>21713661And… it's morning, I checked GrossOut and they're $6 for any weight turkey with $60 purchase this year. Not a good deal. Going for Lidl. But first: going on my 5k then showering.Peace out, homies
>>21714548Yeah that Lidl deal sounds pretty good, enjoy the turkeys.
I'll be canning mine again I signed up for a free bird and they include a 15 dollar gift card. So I might get two again this year.
