Is there any other brands of turkey that are a good alternative to Butterball?

A fully frozen turkey (Zero or lower) can be kept indefinitely. Taste and texture start to decline after 1 year. So generally, they are not kept. And remember they want to make way for other more seasonal items in their freezers. Most stores will sell out their Thanksgiving extras by Christmas and be back to normal supply amounts in January.
Note that if you have a freezer that can maintain zero, you can buy one dirt cheep at thanksgiving and have it in the spring.

We like to stock up on them around this time of year and have turkey throughout the yearly. I think the picture below is 2014 or 2015. Turkeys dropped to $0.24/lb and we still had our massive chest freezer back then. We have a smaller freezer now, but still aim for 4-5 if prices and sizes are good.
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I bought a Butterball over the weekend, 20 lb bird. My sport of choice used to be getting the best price/free turkey but this year I just said screw it, and bought one without paying attention to any sales or $ off offers - I just wanted to get the turkey and be done with it!

That being said, we've had no name turkeys, heirloom turkeys, organic farm raised turkeys, butterballs - frozen & fresh, and even wild turkeys that one of the kids got hunting....honestly I think it comes down to brining it and not overcooking it vs the brand.
 
And that’s why this year, I fully expect the turkey to be dry, but the company wonderful. We bounce around from one side to the other just depending on what’s going on with the family. For the past 4-5 years, we’ve been going to my side of the family for Thanksgiving. My mom is a really good cook. And everything has always been delicious. This year, we’ll be heading back my in-law’s and while my SIL is also a fabulous cook, she’s afraid we’ll all get salmonella. So she purposely puts the turkey back in the oven even after the thermometer says it’s done. She doesn’t trust it. 🤦‍♀️They’re also fans of canned beef gravy no matter what type of meat, so I volunteer to make homemade gravy to help it along. 😂
Funny story, my dd didn’t know she liked turkey so much until she had my mom’s for the first time. She’s happy to be visiting the other side, but did say she’ll probably just eat extra mashed potatoes this year. 🤣
 
What do you think of BucherBox. I don’t know anyone who has tried it. Thank you!
We joined in March. It's pricey, but it's just DH and me, and they have pretty good deals for add-ons. The meat is amazing -- I'm not one to really care (I'm usually more about quantity than quality). We haven't had a bad steak or meat yet, and they offer recipes for each of the cuts. Fish is wild caught.
 
We joined in March. It's pricey, but it's just DH and me, and they have pretty good deals for add-ons. The meat is amazing -- I'm not one to really care (I'm usually more about quantity than quality). We haven't had a bad steak or meat yet, and they offer recipes for each of the cuts. Fish is wild caught.
Thank you! I don’t eat much meat but DH does and we both eat seafood. Looking for some new options. Grocery store meat has been poor quality to me lately, i do have a butcher in town but I don’t always get there as their weekend hours are limited.
 
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Just curious what kind of turkey prices others are seeing. They've started dropping in price here. Lowest I've seen so far is $0.88/lb. While I think Butterball is overrated, they aren't much more at $0.99/lb.
 
I love turkey; it's the only thing at all I like about Thanksgiving other than the football games.

I just buy whatever frozen bird I can get the best price on. If I'm roasting it instead of frying I brine it iced in a light brine for 2 days while it defrosts in an ice chest, prep it with cooking oil and a "massage" and roast it stuffed in an open pan with a rack. Always comes out perfectly fine. I've never really understood why people are so wary of roasting turkeys.

My prep is this: having defrosted it in brine for 2 days (I buy one of those really huge ziplocs and put the frozen turkey inside with the brine ingredients, but I always cut way down on the salt that the recipe calls for.) I press the air out and seal the bag, then sink the entire thing in a cooler full of icewater that we keep chilled to just above freezing.) Once the giblets have had time to soften up I pull them out to precook for the stuffing slurry and the gravy, then let the bird finish thawing. When it's time to cook I pull it out, towel it dry inside and out, stuff it, then truss it up; folding the excess skin over the ends of the legs and pinning it down, and folding the wing tips back behind where the neck was. Then I put the whole thing in a scrubbed sink, scrub my hands and arms, then pour cooking oil generously on my hands and take 10 minutes to thoroughly rub the oil into the skin all over the bird. Then I put it face up in a heavy roasting pan, cover it with foil, and put it in the oven. When it has 45 minutes to go I take the foil off to let the breast brown.
 
We ordered a fresh turkey from the dartagnan website this year. It’s supposed to be humane raised on an Amish farm. It should be delivered overnight the Tuesday before thanksgiving.
 
I heard that Omaha Steaks is offering turkeys and I am curious to know if Omaha Steaks turkeys are worthy of buying because the other Omaha Steaks turkey my mom got Dad for Father's Day she wasn't impressed with at all
 
Publix has turkeys for $.49/LB.

Man...I may have struck too early. We don't have Publix, but Kroger dropped theirs to $0.69/lb yesterday. I had already bought one from Walmart for $0.88/lb, but I'm not sure if we're going to see any additional price drops. They may also only have the small ones by that point if they do another price drop. Last year, I waited, and while they dropped to something like $0.42/lb, they were all 16lb range and under. I went to five separate stores and I think 16.75 lbs was the largest I could get. The trio in my freezer right now are all around 22lbs.
 
Ellington Farms.
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Just curious what kind of turkey prices others are seeing. They've started dropping in price here. Lowest I've seen so far is $0.88/lb. While I think Butterball is overrated, they aren't much more at $0.99/lb.

I'd never heard of Honeysuckle. It was mentioned by @ClaraOswald earlier in the thread.

Went into Aldi for some bread and veggies and they had Butterball ($1.07 a pound) and Honeysuckle ($0.77 a pound)

I hope to eat turkey but I'm not cooking myself this year. In the past I've made Butterball, Shadybrook Farms and various farm raised fresh turkey.

My opinion is it's easy to ruin a turkey by overcooking and drying it out, and dangerous not to cook it until it's 'done'. So it's a crapshoot every year but practice helps and good luck! For those with odd taste, I don't know.
 
I'd never heard of Honeysuckle. It was mentioned by @ClaraOswald earlier in the thread.

Went into Aldi for some bread and veggies and they had Butterball ($1.07 a pound) and Honeysuckle ($0.77 a pound)

I hope to eat turkey but I'm not cooking myself this year. In the past I've made Butterball, Shadybrook Farms and various farm raised fresh turkey.

My opinion is it's easy to ruin a turkey by overcooking and drying it out, and dangerous not to cook it until it's 'done'. So it's a crapshoot every year but practice helps and good luck! For those with odd taste, I don't know.

I think it's the "cheap" brand being carried in a number of stores. I think it's what Kroger had as well. I grabbed two yesterday at $0.69/lb.

I don't think we've ever had an issue with a dry turkey and we don't do anything special. No brining. No deliberate basting...but the roaster supposedly does it. The only year we had a cook time problem with it being underdone was our first year in our current house. I think we ate 2 hours late that year. This house has a convection oven and nothing cooks quite the same. The roaster we bought solved that...at least for turkey.
 
I honestly buy a fresh turkey a day or 2 after Thanksgiving or Christmas to roast within a day or so of that date. The fresh ones are always then marked down and often less than $10 (gotten $5-7 many times) for a fresh turkey. We go out both holidays but will do the full meal within a few days of the holiday at home.
 
Just curious what kind of turkey prices others are seeing. They've started dropping in price here. Lowest I've seen so far is $0.88/lb. While I think Butterball is overrated, they aren't much more at $0.99/lb
.33/pound for the store brand, limit 1 with purchase
 














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