In the past years the most I could manage to keep the taste for is 2 full birds.
I usually let up on the killing at two and just call or film for other folks but this year the buddies might be taking a back seat..
My buddy built an old school cold smoker and has gone in to the sugar curing and salt curing as well. I am already done eating bird 2 and looking forward to another.. Finished off the last of the smoked turkey salad tonight.
How many can you handle before getting sick of eating Turkey?
I don' know about turkey, as the only turkey I had to eat was overcooked by me and didn't taste good.
I am a big deer hunter and every year I think I have to stock the freezer with a minimum of three deer. Well, we usually start out eating a good bit of deer meat (maybe once every two weeks) towards the end of the season and right after it. After about a month or two of eating deer meat every other week, we get tired of it. Needless to say. we always have a freezer full of deer meat, some of it being three years old.
I imagine it is different with turkey since there isn't as much meat.
Never get sick of turkey....I always slice it into strips and deep fry it in house autry....also deep fry sliced potatoes and fresh cheese curd for a meal.....never had to freeze a turkey ...it doesn't last 2 days.....I only harvest 2-5 birds a year....always seem to have company when we fry turkey for some reason;)
I'll eat a couple but its nexer baked or fryed. I make turkey popets, fajitas, or something exotic.
For me the more the better. We can only shoot two here. I have four kids and they have been raised on deer, pheasant, and the occasional turkey. I know people who hunt then throw away the meat because it goes old. For us its just life and all we eat if we are successful enough. A few years ago I butchered eight deer that i shot and were given to me. We ran out. Any more beef gives me troubles. I love my venison. We had turkey burgers for dinner tonight!!
I never get tired of any meat.
One bird lasts me 2 meals. Each breast is a meal of fried turkey strips. I killed 5 deer this year. Those deer are almost gone. Will be out before summer gets in full swing.
Eat every one I can get. Unfortunately, I don't have much success, so that ain't many of them.
We never get tired of it. Whether it's turkey nuggets, bourbon honey glazed, poppers, grilled bacon wraps, southwestern egg rolls, etc. Plenty of delicious things you can do with that valuable wild turkey breast!
I have never determined what is enough, we eat all I kill. I killed 9 last year and we have one half breast left in the freezer, because I was saving it for someone who has never eat wild turkey and wanted to try it.
Turkey BBQ is always a hit, I vacuum pack mine so it keeps well in the freezer. we'll eat as many as we shoot each year. Deer I keep around 4-5 a year and give the rest away.
We get two tags a year here, but that's not close to enough.
I marinate mine in a ginger teriyaki marinade, then grill it and add some grilled fresh pineapple spears. I've never found anybody who didn't like it or want more.
Jim
I eat everything I kill. The more, the better.
I can eat wild turkey daily if available. My favorite is to make finger foods out of it. I marinate it and then stir fry and have some dipping sauces available for guests. I learned this method from a good friend and it seems to be a hit everytime.
I can eat em a couple times a month. Have tons of recipes. Some really easy ones are cut em thim and brush red wine vinegrette or Rays barbecue sauce in it each time it's turned. Cut it very thin it'll cook fast n be juicy.
I must be missing something... Perhaps what I'm missing is that Yall are crappy at cooking? LOL just kidding now, but I haven't seen, but may have missed someone mention Italian dressing as a marinade? Man, 24 hours in Italian dressing and cook on your lowest grill setting. It takes as much patience as it does to kill the darn thing but man is it good...
I will not only eat the ones I kill instantly but am open to anyone who likes to share. Good Lord, it's the best game meat out there in my opinion.
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Quote from: Cut N Run on April 08, 2015, 12:04:21 AM
We get two tags a year here, but that's not close to enough.
I marinate mine in a ginger teriyaki marinade, then grill it and add some grilled fresh pineapple spears. I've never found anybody who didn't like it or want more.
Jim
dang that sounds good
2 is the most I'll eat in a month or so.
Last year we did some strips batter fried and smothered in buffalo sauce and made poorboy style sandwiches with them, way good.
I guess if you have a good woman who knows how to lay out some wild game and a buddy with a smoker the sky is the limit. I'm great at the killing and cleaning part , but leave the cooking to someone else. I should have been on number three today but old boy just wouldn't break past 70 daggumit that was fun.
I never get tired of it!! I usually kill 2 or 3 turkeys each season, sometimes more. As well as 4 to 6 deer a season. I finish off all of them prior to the next season starting.
:drool: Love it, never get tired of it. I even got my girls eating it. BBQ, on the grill or in my rotisserie wrapped with bacon in the basket, wooo baby.
I can't imagine two birds being too much spread out over a year.??? You don't have to eat them all in April and May.
They keep in a freezer for a while if wrapped and bagged.
We can eat as many as we can kill.
I can't imagine two birds being too much spread out over a year.??? You don't have to eat them all in April and May.
They keep in a freezer for a while if wrapped and bagged.
We can eat as many as we can kill.
My family loves it. I usually cube the breast and make speidies (PA and NY folks know what I'm talking about). There's nothing better on the grill. Turkeys I kill won't last much past July.
I eat them back to back until gone, there is never room in my freezer for them this time of year. They don't make the cut to occupy room over venison, wild hog, redfish, cobia, dolphin, sheephead, spades, lobster and shrimp all local to my area.
So its kill and eat immediately.
Deep fried,chunked and battered for the first one,then boneless in a ham net then pickled in a brine then smoked and sliced like cold meat :happy0167:
You gotta be kidding. We eat everyone I kill and if we're lucky someone will give us some, too. Breast goes for fried strips, which everyone loves. We usually eat one half the day of the kill and then the other not long after. Legs and thighs go for pot pie or enchiladas. I can't recall having any left in the freezer past the end of Spring season, ever.
Eat the deer faster or buy a bigger freezer. ;D We are a family of five and have eaten 80% or more of a cow and calf elk since November and one whitetail killed in October. I can always find space to wedge the filleted breast and the legs wings and thighs.
15 to 20. They are not big animals. How much do you eat? This post is silly.
I could eat wild turkey all year. My favorite is to fry some up with some morals and some crappie. Doesnt get much better!
Yep. Italian dressing as marinade. Any brand, even cheap house brand. Just cut in strips, soak for at least a few hrs, then grill while consuming carbonated adult beverage and watch sun set. Yessiree
We baked the first wild turkey I got some years ago, just like it was a Butter Ball. While the breast was okay, you could have driven nails with the legs! So...with Monday's 23# gobbler, the legs and dark meat are currently in the crock pot along with veggies making turkey leg stew. Just got to remember to be sure to get all of those little leg bones out. My wife makes a mean turkey pot pie, my favorite way to have the breast. I often give half the breast away to the land owner which helps secure permission for the next season, sometimes including deer hunting.
Cook the dark meat in a crock pot until tender (or a pressure cooker) with chicken broth, then debone chop and make noodles with it. It makes a real rich broth and outstanding noodles.....yippeee
Quote from: eggshell on April 10, 2015, 04:47:53 PM
Cook the dark meat in a crock pot until tender (or a pressure cooker) with chicken broth, then debone chop and make noodles with it. It makes a real rich broth and outstanding noodles.....yippeee
I try to put one bird aside until the weather turns cold specifically for turkey and noodles. It's my favorite...but sometimes all the birds get fried up by Labor Day. ;)
5 of us here in the house. We all love deer and turkey. Can't imagine having too much or too many.
I cant shoot enough to get sick of it. We can only take 2 here in NY so no getting sick of it that way.
I have a camp were I hunt so we spend the first 9 days of the season there. Usually 4 or 5 of us. We like to cook some up as soon as we get him. Any extras come home. My wife finally came around and realized the game I get is better then store bought food. My 2 boys 2 and 5 even like to do the prep work with me now that there getting a little bigger. Tons of fun.
Eat everything I harvest. 5 toms on my blessed years. I like them fried in strips like chicken or fish. Also I will cook them in the crock pot and make turkey salad just like you would chicken salad. Good luck to all this season !