[Sca-cooks] Frozen turkey

[Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur]

> >I know we had this conversation about old frozen turkeys.  So what
> >was the comments about a turkey been frozen for over a year, eatible
> >or garbage.  Aurore
>
> There's generally a diminution of quality, but it's not necessarily
> garbage. It largely depends on how well it's wrapped, the frozen
> temperature, and how stable that temperature was in storage. Mostly
> the one-year limit is probably processor/packer-devised to limit
> their own potential liability.

I'm a fan of brining turkeys anyway... but certainly one that had been in
cold storage that long, as long as it's not obviously freezer-burnt or
anything like that, would probably do well to be brined before cooking.

Avraham

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