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[On It]

I forgot the buttermilk for my cornbread dressing, so yesterday I did a quick order and added some more things for curbside pickup. They had no pickup times available for yesterday, so I scheduled this morning (Tuesday) at 9:00 am. We parked beside the exit to the waiting area, and we could see everyone's order in the baskets.

Most of the orders were small, but two were quite large, and I saw they each had a frozen turkey. I guess they will have to defrost their bird in cold water. I don't know how they could get one thawed in two days in the refrigerator.

[SilleeMee]

Maybe that person will be eating their turkey at some later date after TG Day.

[fthunt]

First time cooks - newly weds?

Buying now for Christmas?

My niece with her first turkey - a bride - put "T" in the pan breast side down.

Still laughs about it but probably not the first time it's been done.

[Kachina624]

@On It    Buttermilk or sour cream substitute for cooking = 3 Tbsp. of vinegar in 1 cup milk. Let it sit 5 min.  Saves a trip to the store.

[On It]

@fthunt I cook my turkey breast side down to avoid the breast being dry. One of the meteorologists on a San Antonio TV station said to cook it that way. I tried it, and it is much more moist.

We do essentially bake our turkey rather than roast it.

[RollTide2008]

I don’t have enough room in fridge to defrost a turkey. I defrost it in the sink like my mother did before me. No one has died yet.

[Carmie]

How can you tell the turkeys were frozen?  I was at Costco today and they had turkeys and I said to my DH that it is too late to buy a frozen Turkey.

When I looked again, and read the wrapper, they were fresh turkeys.  They are packaged the same way as the frozen ones.  

[Kachina624]

@Carmie     Fresh turkeys have never been frozen.  They were just slaughtered.  My mom liked them, said they tasted better.  They were all the same to me. 

[Carmie]

@Kachina624   I know that fresh turkeys have never been frozen.  I normally get them at the farmers market and they are sold in a plastic bag and they do taste  better to me, but I prefer chicken.

The ones from Costco were in the same type of shrink wrap as frozen turkeys.  It was impossible to tell if they were frozen solid, fresh or pre-thawed.

There is no way anyone should know if a Turkey was frozen solid or fresh from looking at it in a shopping basket.  You would need to be close enough to read the print.

[Lucky Charm]

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@On It wrote:

I forgot the buttermilk for my cornbread dressing, so yesterday I did a quick order and added some more things for curbside pickup. They had no pickup times available for yesterday, so I scheduled this morning (Tuesday) at 9:00 am. We parked beside the exit to the waiting area, and we could see everyone's order in the baskets.

Most of the orders were small, but two were quite large, and I saw they each had a frozen turkey. I guess they will have to defrost their bird in cold water. I don't know how they could get one thawed in two days in the refrigerator.

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Sometimes, people don't cook them on Thanksgiving Thursday, but perhaps Saturday or even Sunday.  That's actually going to be the case for us.