gotta figure out turkey
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chhotiiIt has been decided, Thanksgiving dinner is going to be at my place and it will be turkey. This will be the first year ever that I cook the main dish at Thanksgiving, and it's not just a small chicken, and I don't have Rich to help.
There will be probably just the three of us, me, Vic, and my mom. Maybe we will find another single person to invite but it probably won't pan out. (I have a dining table that seats 4, and a kitchen table that seats 4, so it would be extremely awkward to have more than 4, unless the structure of the group is such that a few would want to sit separately-- a teen table vs. the grownup table, for example.) Let's assume only 3.
What size turkey for only 3 people? We don't mind leftovers and coming months will see soups, turkey pot pies, etc. with chunks of turkey pulled out of the freezer, but it shouldn't be absurd. I don't have a lot of freezer space.
Do I get a fresh turkey or frozen? Do they all come frozen? I haven't been paying attention. If I buy a frozen turkey, I think I need to buy it the day that it starts defrosting, because, not a lot of freezer space. (It's a awkward freezer-- below-fridge, one big basket that I pile things into; but not too high because if I fill it with packages, they bump into the ice cube tray basket drawers when I try to close the freezer.) So, what date does the turkey have to come out of the freezer? I recall that tamidon used to post about it being "national take your turkey out of the freezer day" so I know that's a thing, days before T-day. But how does this not depend on the size of the turkey? Surely a turkey that feeds 20 has a lot more thermal mass than a turkey that feeds 3.
There will be probably just the three of us, me, Vic, and my mom. Maybe we will find another single person to invite but it probably won't pan out. (I have a dining table that seats 4, and a kitchen table that seats 4, so it would be extremely awkward to have more than 4, unless the structure of the group is such that a few would want to sit separately-- a teen table vs. the grownup table, for example.) Let's assume only 3.
What size turkey for only 3 people? We don't mind leftovers and coming months will see soups, turkey pot pies, etc. with chunks of turkey pulled out of the freezer, but it shouldn't be absurd. I don't have a lot of freezer space.
Do I get a fresh turkey or frozen? Do they all come frozen? I haven't been paying attention. If I buy a frozen turkey, I think I need to buy it the day that it starts defrosting, because, not a lot of freezer space. (It's a awkward freezer-- below-fridge, one big basket that I pile things into; but not too high because if I fill it with packages, they bump into the ice cube tray basket drawers when I try to close the freezer.) So, what date does the turkey have to come out of the freezer? I recall that tamidon used to post about it being "national take your turkey out of the freezer day" so I know that's a thing, days before T-day. But how does this not depend on the size of the turkey? Surely a turkey that feeds 20 has a lot more thermal mass than a turkey that feeds 3.
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