Tesco turkeys

Lol maryhoffman37 , I do wonder if going veggie is the way to go.
Got a Norfolk organic black from m&s, order with them every year and they never disappoint.

Snap! My Sainsbury’s nut roast was delicious.

I am so relieved to be a vegetarian!

Our local co op gets a few fresh turkeys about 5 days before Christmas which we managed to get by ringing and asking when they would be put out for sale. We kept it in the spare ‘fridge in the garage and it was lovely, better than previous years frozen ones from Sainsbury’s or Tesco!

No and it's very scary. I will touch no food items like that.

And now Sainsbury’s . Their extra special Angus burgers are being recalled because of ecoli. Twelve people affected.
I was shocked when online shopping for frozen canapés to find that all the Tesco Asian chicken flavours came from Thailand or Vietnam! How can that be right? As well as all those air miles, can we be sure the food safety regulations are being strictly adhered to.
Suffice to say, I didn’t buy them.

I prefer the frozen too. It was just the one particular type . You know the "extra special" range? It was the full fresh turkey. Had till boxing day too. One Lady said it tasted of bleach. One of acid and one of DHs feet .

We had a turkey crown from M&S (only because SiL ordered it; otherwise it would have been a frozen job from Morrison’s!) which was fine if you like white meat but I actually like the dark meat and I had to wait until Boxing Day, when DS cooked a frozen turkey - from Tesco’s! It was lovely. He has numerous qualifications in food safety and hygiene and if there had been the slightest “whiff” of suspicion about it I know for certain that he would have ditched it without hesitation.

Well, after years of thinking I needed to buy overpriced and to be honest fairly tasteless free range and supposedly award-winning turkeys from various high end outlets, I went with the results of one of this year's taste tests and bought a cheap large frozen ready-basted turkey crown from Tesco. It was delicious, and for the first time ever our guests actually commented on the quality!

Where does the tradition of eating turkey at Christmas come from?

I've never eaten turkey - those giant drumsticks I see on the supermarket shelves make me shudder. Yuk.

Aldi have also been in the mire for selling rotten turkeys, probably not intentionally. We had a small turkey crown from Sainsbury’s, lovely, no pong at all. (Smug emoji).

Apparently it was the extra large extra special Turkeys that were off . Some cost 59.99 and because they used the juices to make gravy, the whole dinner was ruined. They all had to order a take away . Some didn't get Christmas dinner until 8pm. GC had fell asleep waiting.

We had the Aldi ham joint with orange and bay and it was so tender, juicy and succulent. Never had any meat from Aldi that wasn't excellent.

We had an Aldi turkey crown bought frozen. Delicious when cooked the Mary Berry way. We find all Aldi meat to be excellent value.

Well we had a Tesco turkey crown and it wasn't off at all, but it was rather dry. Glad we had plenty of gammon, to be honest, and lots of other stuff to fill the plate with! Don't think I'll be buying from Tesco next year. Time was when I only ever bought a free range turkey from a local farm, or from an excellent butcher in town - they were always so delicious, so tasty and succulent. Sadly they are way beyond our budget these days.

Aldi turkey crown for us and it was excellent the best we have had in a long time,some reports said the Tesco turkeys smelt of bleach when opened I have read that washing in a bleach solution prior to packing will hide any smell once the packaging is opened,they must have been very off when packaged for the smell to be so bad.Disgraceful Tesco.
I never shop there as the veg etc are always well past their best I have thrown fresher produce in the waste bin.

10 million turkeys killed for Christmas. How sad that some of them died and weren’t even eaten. Imagine the outcry if 10 million dogs were being killed in a matter of a few weeks. I guess turkeys just aren’t cute.

and I'll try the Phil Vickery method.

oh dear!
Well at least I'm not cooking it tomorrow when we have guests.

We had a turkey crown from Tesco and it was very disappointing, dry with a strange texture and little taste.
For the first time ever, I went to our local store this afternoon and told the Customer Service staff. They have given me a phone number to ring.
Went to DD1 on Boxing day and her Aldi turkey breast that we ate cold, was so much better.

Sometimes meat does smell a bit odd when taken out of the packaging.
If it does, I do what you're not supposed to - wash it under a cold running tap. The slightly off smell goes then. If not - take it back!

I know what you mean about that smell , however the Tesco ones were rancid apparently. There was no getting away from it .

Thank heavens I got mine from Aldi. Not shopped in Tesco for years.

When I opened my Asda turkey on Christmas eve, after they had closed, I was unsure about the smell. However, after a while exposed to the air it seemed ok. I had nightmares overnight but decided to use my meat thermometer to make sure it cooked to over the recommended 74 degrees. It was very succulent and nobody was ill. Phew!

As long as it doesn't say not to .