3kg Whole Turkey or 2kg Turkey Crown £8 at Morrisons

lucerysmum

3kg Whole Turkey or 2kg Turkey Crown £8 at Morrisons

Frozen - but fab deal at £8 !

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sazziecee

Sorry for daft question, but how many people do you think the crown would serve? my first year cooking my own xmas dinner, but there are only 4 of us (2 adults and 2 kids)

Lynsey

The crown should easily serve 8 (more if kids only have a small portion). It's a pity it's frozen, or I would have bought one and halved it (frozen half).

Lynsey

lucerysmum

we had this size last year for New Year and it did 4 adults & two kids - and we had it cold with crackers, bread etc at tea time - so should be plenty big enough.

Nice with bacon across the top when you cook it !

ALIBOBSY

A normal small to middle sized chicken is around 1 to 1.5 kgs and is usually plenty for our family (2 adults then 4 kids-but aged 12 (nearly 13 and eats like an adult), 7, 3 and a baby). Obviously the baby doesn't each much, but the others do ok. I would say that sized turkey, would be plenty for 2 adults and 2 kids-loads of leftovers to keep you going into new year lol.

The thing to remember with frozen turkeys is to read the defrosting instructions carefully well before xmas day. Some, especially large ones can take a long time to defrost, last year ours was a "48 hrs in the fridge to defrost" one so you need to work out when to move it from freezer to fridge to be ready to cook on xmas morning.

ali x

flea72

Lynsey wrote: »

The crown should easily serve 8 (more if kids only have a small portion). It's a pity it's frozen, or I would have bought one and halved it (frozen half).

Lynsey

cook it whole, then freeze what you dont need, once cooked

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lulugirl

But wouldnt you get ill refreezing it again?

jumpingjackd

lulugirl wrote: »

But wouldnt you get ill refreezing it again?

Not if you cook it first.

cornishlady

lulugirl wrote: »

But wouldnt you get ill refreezing it again?

not when you cooked it ,what you should never do is defrost frozen meat &refreeze before cooking it, but once cooked its fine to refreeze again .

flea72

you can defrost and eat any meat, from each state of freshness, once

so you can freeze fresh meat, defrost, cook and eat

then you can freeze cooked meat, defrost, cook and eat

you just have to check whether the 'fresh' meat has previously been frozen. alot of chicken and fish has previously been frozen and defrosted instore for sale. the packing should say, or ask the butcher/fishmonger

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sirbrainy

Don't believe all the rubbish advice you see printed.

The basic point is keeping food at a low enough temperature so that the multiplication of harmful bacteria is considerably slowed.

You could perfectly well thaw a turkey crown, chop it in half and refreeze the half you didn't need - virtually zero risk to health as the bacteria will not have had any chance to multiply.

Also, provided you reheat any food to 100C for 5 mins or more you will kill off nearly all bacteria.

Why do you think it is perfectly OK to eat semi-rotted meat such as certain game birds? Answer - because you heat it before eating.