Tesco turkeys

What's a turkey crown - just the breast?

Just heard this on the car radio.

Yes, Fennel, it's the turkey breast, without any bones. Ideal for the fussy eaters in my family!

Someone on a weightwatchers Facebook group I follow said she had gorged on pigs in blankets because their tesco turkey was off.

How disappointing!
I was delighted with the Morrison turkey crown cooked using Phil Vickery's method.
We all voted it best ever!

I haven't liked turkey ever since we had one a few years ago from Sainsbury's that tasted of fish. Someone at the time told me that turkeys were sometimes fed on fish meal.

We were at DS's for Christmas and had a wonderful piece of rolled sirloin. Much prefer that to turkey!

Yes it's rife. In our large Tesco up the motorway. The queue was out the door with Turkey holding furious people .

There were no turkeys available to pre-order for my online Tesco delivery so I went to Sainsburys and got mine. When I did my order I was annoyed Tesco had turkeys and other things unavailable. Now it seems I was lucky.

Ours was lovely. From Aldi .

It's funny but on one of our early Christmases, so me being desperate to make it spectacular, DOH bought a turkey from the Christmas turkey auction .... anyone who lived in the country especially Norfolk, would remember those.... It had been plucked (and I think drawn) but still with head etc. DOH hung it in the garage for about 5 days (too long ago for me to actually recall) but it was one of those mild Christmases and when he brought it in for me to prepare for the oven on Christmas Eve it stank.
I kid you not, I actually spent a sleepless night worrying about the darned thing...... said nothing to anyone else of course. Cooked it, still worrying, only for everyone to say it was without doubt the most tasty, succulent bird they had eaten for years! I confessed DOH later,and we often recalled it whenever faced with other Christmas dinner hiccups... like the time I didn't realise our new oven was to small for the flippin' thing. Had to cook it with the a chair against the oven door in an attempt to keep it closed

Oh dear; I bought a Tesco turkey crown as a 'just in case' and froze it. We haven't used it yet so perhaps I ought to take it out of the freezer, defrost and sniff.
Would they believe me if I tell them it has been frozen I wonder?

We've never bought one before either.

Yes Jalimal they will believe you . Try it out and hope for the best eeek!

I was going to use it tomorrow but decided to cook something else instead (before reading this thread btw).

It doesn't say it can be frozen on the packet

I know but you can freeze any meat once.

As long as it doesn't say not to .

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!

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

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

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!

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.

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

and I'll try the Phil Vickery method.

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.

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.