Are you going to to have a fresh or frozen turkey ?

I will have a frozen TBH they are just as good as fresh ,
Plus they are half the price ,have to watch the pennies frankley.

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Fresh I hope! But I must admit that I have never checked. My brother always does a big family Christmas so I haven't roasted a turkey for years because we always go there on the big day. If I were cooking a turkey I'd definitely buy fresh. It's a special day.

I do know that SiL's niece tried to Christmas dinner for her family a few years ago and didn't realise how long a frozen turkey takes to thaw. They ended up pretty hungry, so knowing how early to thaw is the only problem IMO.

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My dear wife cooks turkey thighs. Not for us. She reduces them down to get the juices to make turkey gravy - with a few added components of course! That's for Christmas lunch.

She takes the meat off the bones and that becomes little treats to add as a tasty topping to the dog food. The bones get binned.

Re: Are you going to to have a fresh or frozen turkey ?

WEll doing it as long as I have [not any more as the baton has been passed to DD] I know full well how long they take to defrost. lol

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I never buy a whole turkey as no-one likes the leg meat - so my butcher does me a fresh 'crown' - which reminds me - I had better put in an order!

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Neither, we don't like turkey, it's a big joint of beef for us.

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Same here Roxy. Daughter's partner cooks it too, at their place. I don't have to do a thing.

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Not trying to be gratuitously different but we don't usually have poultry at Christmas apart from some cold duck. Its a typical Australian Christmas usually. A huge Barramundi grilled on the BBQ with various other seafood - octopus, prawns, squid as side dishes: a big glazed pork or ham and more salads than you could wave a stick at. Usually everything is eaten cold. But if I was in the UK or North America I would love to have a traditional CHristmas dinner with the turkey and the rest. But here it's just too hot.

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Ours will be cooked before we eat it.

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Same here Roxy. Can't abide the stuff and the smell it makes when cooking is nauseating.