Ribeye saves the day

4 days ago

I've been enjoying the post about spatch cocking turkeys and chickens. We've done several chickens but never Turkey. We both loved the results. Fast cooking and very tasty chicken. We may try that method on a turkey sometime too.

Our Thanksgiving this year was memorable. I prefer fresh turkey instead of frozen, so I bought a ten pound turkey about a week before the big day. A family member offered to deep fry it. We've used this method for the past several years. The cook called and said the turkey had a sulphur smell. We googled it and google said don't eat it. Turns out there was a small slit in the package wrapper and had allowed it to spoil and this is when we went into panic mode. I happened to remember that we had 3 ribeyes in the freezer and someone else came up with another one. We wound up with grilled ribeye steaks, riced potatoes, dressing, gravy, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie and pecan cream pie. No turkey but we did fine.

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LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
4 days ago
I'd take Ribeye over turkey any day of the year including Thanksgiving. I'm sure you had to eat the sides you already had planned but I'd have preferred a bake potato (or even better a twice baked potato) and asparagus or broccoli.

I can't wait to get the steer we are feeding out now to get processed in a couple months. I'm down to about 20 lbs. of beef in the freezer from our last steer and only a couple sirloin for steaks.
chloebud
4 days ago
Ugh, sorry about the turkey, but ribeyes would have made me happy, too!
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Sounds like a good save and an awesome Thanksgiving. I have never heard of a pecan cream pie but it sounds scrumptious.
Elmer J Fudd
4 days ago
I think "a week" is too long to keep a fresh, never frozen turkey in the fridge. That may have been the problem, not necessarily the slit in the packaging.

Looking around online, the most common advice for how long a fresh turkey can stay in a fridge is 2 to 3 days, tops.
notdancin
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3 days ago
Elmer J Fudd, but what's the difference in the fresh turkey being in Kroger's refrigerated case and in my refrigerator?

Lone Jack and Cloebud, we all agreed that the steaks were a nice change.

Lucille, the pecan cream pie was delicious, but too sweet. I think I'll pass next time.
Elmer J Fudd
3 days ago
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" Elmer J Fudd, but what's the difference in the fresh turkey being in Kroger's refrigerated case and in my refrigerator? "

There's an answer to your question but I don't know what it is. I spent a few moments looking around and credible site after site said 2-3 days in a home fridge, max. Butterball's advice is that the turkey is good until the Use Before date. Thinking about how much processing those turkeys get, I wouldn't be surprised if preserving chemicals to extend "shelf life" were added in the brew they inject. But I don't know for sure about them either.

The site foodsafety.gov says 1-2 days.

I'm sure sites that give advice to the public will tend to be conservative and round the number of days down rather than round up. No advice suggests even as much as 4 days, much less a week, so I think that is a likely cause of the spoiled turkey.
Sherry8aNorthAL
3 days ago
Notdancin, Nothing is different. 40* is 40*. It was spoiling before you brought it home. Next time buy frozen or check the package carefully at the store.

Ribeyes sound great!
Elmer J Fudd
3 days ago
Freezing never improves the quality of fresh food. At best, it preserves it and is neutral to the quality. Also possible and a not uncommon consequence is that it can diminish the quality of the item.

A fresh turkey, or fresh anything, is always better than frozen. I can't think of an example for which that's not the case. Some people are easy to please or don't notice or mind the difference. Fine, personal preferences do vary.
eld6161
2 days ago
I stopped doing turkey for Thanksgiving for a few years now. i do a cranberry chicken.

It’s not about the food as much as the people.
lat62
2 days ago
Way to go! Ribeye is a fair 'consolation' prize, almost as if it were meant to be :))

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