Topic: TURKEY CROWNS....but what happens to the rest of the turkey????????

[Duke Ellington]

So many families buy turkey crowns these days. Does anyone know what the turkey industry does with the rest of the turkey meat?

[Chrispy]

Jamie Olivers favorate..... Turkey twizzlers, then there are turkey burgers, turkey dinasours, turkey ham, and other reconsituted meat products, well thats the obvious stuff.

Merry Christmas.

[tonybloke]

Bernard Mathews is just down the road from here, a huge proportion of the staff live in the town. Crispy has outlined most of the other uses for the leg / thigh meat.


just for info, less than 1% of the total weight of live turkeys taken into the factory leaves as 'waste'
go figure!!!  ;)

[tonybloke]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-16309062

[davejg]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-16309062

Which part of thisdaft old bird did they use then tony

[saddad]

It's often best not to ask these things if squeamish... or on a full stomache..  :-X

[dtw]

I guess they use the 'mechanical meat recovery' method as is used on chickens.
Look it up on youtube if you've already eaten your dinner.

[galina]

Bought a packet of turkey slices recently, which I turned into a curry.  They looked and tasted like a dark meat, so I guess it was all turkey leg meat.  The turkey crowns were right next in the freezer.  Made sense to me.

[Carol]

Our Nephew is a Micro biologist and for a number of years worked with the main supplier of turkeys for Marks and spencer and other major supermarkets.   His answer to this question is - the businesses sells the legs off to either be eaten as legs in Europe or Asia or they use the meat for turkey products  i.e.  turkey paste.

 ;D

[plainleaf]

in usa you can buy turkey parts of every kind where they sell turkey or at local super mart.  turkey can be bought here all year; either whole or as parts separately even separate gibbets.

as for the carcass there is always turkey both and turkey soup.
the wings there is turkey hot wings,fried turkey wings, flaming turkey wings,
etc.
there is always turkey jerky for dogs

Turkey is not just for Christmas or Thanksgiving.








  



 

[Melbourne12]

.... just for info, less than 1% of the total weight of live turkeys taken into the factory leaves as 'waste'
go figure!!!  ;)

The very low waste figures are something to be proud of, surely?  The feathers, bones, viscera and every drop or crumb of uneatable material goes for rendering and ends up in animal feedstuffs or various other applications.

Even the grease in the wastewater can be recovered and turned into biofuel.

[tonybloke]

yep, the gizzards are puréed and injected back into the meat ( fortified)

[plainleaf]

the gizzard are put in stuffing/dressings here not injected in the meat.

[lincsyokel2]

You mean Walking Birds........................

[ACE]

yep, the gizzards are puréed and injected back into the meat ( fortified)

Not to my tastes, but in other countries, people are not so picky in what they eat, If it is edible and not poisonous, they do not have a problem with it. I eat what is termed as offal, liver kidney etc, but draw the line at most of these processed frozen things. Saying that, I love tinned corned beef, please don't tell me what they do to it.

[Melbourne12]

Gizzards? Gesiers?  Delicious!  A salade tiede of gesiers is one of the joys of a summer holiday in France.

When I was a youngster, one of my favourite treats was Birds Eye Chicken Rissoles.  They were just the tastiest convenience food imaginable.  Unfortunately they must have changed poultry supplier at some point, and started to contain tooth-breaking fragments of grit.  It was at that point that people realised that the tasty chicken flavour was (ugh!) gizzards, and they disappeared from the frozen cabinets shortly thereafter.  True Brits just don't eat gizzards.

There's often a foundation of truth in bizarre food processing stories, but I find it difficult to construct a business model in which it's profitable to puree gizzards and inject the resulting slurry into chicken meat. 

[saddad]

Offal is often very tasty...
you could eat all of a pig except the grunt...  :-X

[galina]

Offal is often very tasty...
you could eat all of a pig except the grunt...  :-X

Quite! - most people love pate, not realising it is made with liver.  ;D

[lincsyokel2]

Gizzards? Gesiers?  Delicious!  A salade tiede of gesiers is one of the joys of a summer holiday in France.

When I was a youngster, one of my favourite treats was Birds Eye Chicken Rissoles.  They were just the tastiest convenience food imaginable.  Unfortunately they must have changed poultry supplier at some point, and started to contain tooth-breaking fragments of grit.  It was at that point that people realised that the tasty chicken flavour was (ugh!) gizzards, and they disappeared from the frozen cabinets shortly thereafter.  True Brits just don't eat gizzards.

There's often a foundation of truth in bizarre food processing stories, but I find it difficult to construct a business model in which it's profitable to puree gizzards and inject the resulting slurry into chicken meat.  

Absolutely not.

Boiled Lights (sheeps lungs) are the most disgusting part of the innards ever eaten, and were served up to he poor in in the workhouse  in Victorian times. Even the Edwardians couldnt put up with them,  and people stopped eating lights before world war two.

[artichoke]

I ordered a turkey crown for the first time in my life this year, from local excellent butcher - but what I got when I went to collect it was a boned and rolled turkey breast. It was rather disappointing, though far too late to complain.

Somehow it did not taste the same and there was not enough skin, and it did not crisp up. Too easy to carve, too......no drama

He still called it a turkey crown. so have I misunderstood what that means?