Turkey butchering

[pueawjapygrta]

I've found the trick to clean evisceration is carefully cutting everything free down both sides, and then around the vent, back into the back. then reach in, and find the gizzard, and it will all come out, more or less in one bunch. but the trick is to get everything loose that is attached to the lower back.

 

[Phelan]

To be honest, I haven't frozen a turkey yet. Last year was our first time, and I cooked the entire bird. I don't have anything large enough that would have held that turkey to allow it to soak, besides the trash bag.

 

[Anne]

We scalded our first batch of turkeys in a metal trash can full of boiling water before plucking them. I thought it was pretty easy.

In that batch we had one white tom turkey who was 45 lbs. live and 38 lbs. cleaned. We smoked him (he barely fit in the smoker). He fed a lot of people and was delicious, even though we had let him get far too old before butchering. We soaked him in a brine solution and injected him with apple cider before smoking.

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

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I agree the hot water works just fine for chickens, ducks and geese so I don't know why it wouldn't work for a turkey; we bleed our birds first thing by slicing the throat and bleeding it.