MAKRO Precooked Frozen Turkeys

[arick]

I am here in Jomethien and saw some brown looking frozen things here it was Precooked Turkeys. They proably are 450 a kilo or 450 each. 

Would you try one?  Proably what they are serving at Xmas lunch at the local restaurants. 

 

[tonray]

25 minutes ago, arick said:

Would you try one?

No....sounds absolutely disgusting. I guess you have to what defrost it (4 hours ?) and then cook it again as a large turley would take a long time to come up to reasonable temp internally anyway ? Doesn't sound like much of a time saver. 

[worgeordie]

The USA can only send pre-cooked Turkeys here,

something to do with Bird Flu or some other bird

diseases over there. not 450 THB each ,per Kilo.

regards Worgeordie     

[zzaa09]

Oh dear......

[tonray]

3 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

The USA can only send pre-cooked Turkeys here,

something to do with Bird Flu or some other bird

diseases over there. not 450 THB each ,per Kilo.

regards Worgeordie     

I'll stick with Gai Yang and cranberry sauce

[walt1]

I ordered a pre cooked butterball last year and it was OK but not as good as a fresh cooked one. The rules may be changing I have seen frozen raw butterball turkey this year. I will make do with a Hungry  man TV dinner. Gotta like Villa deliveries.   

[arick]

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

The USA can only send pre-cooked Turkeys here,

something to do with Bird Flu or some other bird

diseases over there. not 450 THB each ,per Kilo.

regards Worgeordie     

I doubt even if there from the states looks like a Thai Turkey Company.  Your better off have new Zealand lamb or Sirlion roast. 

[arick]

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

The USA can only send pre-cooked Turkeys here,

something to do with Bird Flu or some other bird

diseases over there. not 450 THB each ,per Kilo.

regards Worgeordie     

No they had uncooked Americian Turkeys in Tops last year for 3000 baht and up 

Edited December 5, 2021 by arick

[worgeordie]

1 hour ago, arick said:

No they had uncooked Americian Turkeys in Tops last year for 3000 baht and up 

Last year.... This year have only seen pre cooked Butterball Turkeys.

Thai turkeys are not cooked, but only look to be skin and bones.

regards Worgeordie

[bert bloggs]

10 hours ago, arick said:

I doubt even if there from the states looks like a Thai Turkey Company.  Your better off have new Zealand lamb or Sirlion roast. 

We are having  new zealand lamb,the wife loves it almost as much as welsh lamb that is brought up on salt plains in s wales( can only get it there it is fantastic ) still tried one of those pre cooked turkeys one year ,not all that nice. So lamb it iz with roast parsnips ,sent by angels from heaven????

[fangless]

10 hours ago, arick said:

No they had uncooked Americian Turkeys in Tops last year for 3000 baht and up 

Did you check the dates on those turkeys and/or their country of import, not origin?

[richard_smith237]

Had some remarkably strange looking skinny but also very fatty local Turkey a few years ago at a friends house - it was awful....

 

Also had a Turkey delivered by Sunrise taco’s (in BKK) a couple of years ago... obviously fully cooked along with pots and vet, stuffing etc....  a

 

It surprised the heck out of me that a fast food mex restaurant did turkey... t’was impressive. 

[tonray]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

It surprised the heck out of me that a fast food mex restaurant did turkey... t’was impressive. 

Guacamole stuffing ?

[Tropposurfer]

Turkey ... no thanks. Have eaten it in so-called excellent eateries all over the globe and it aint' my idea of good game bird.

Much prefer juicy, sweet fleshed, free-range fresh chickens roasted in a good oven (by me & must use a thermometer to judge cook time!) in the French style (rubbed with garlic, slits in skin with fingers of butter inserted, rubbed over with olive oil and salt, pricked with a sharp knife. 

Then stuffed with my own lightly blitzed stuffing of apple, left over brown bread crusts, onion, garlic, shallots, coriander, English parsley, eggs salt & pepper, red capsicum, sweet sun-dried tomatoes. No comparison or competition from turkey any day of the week.

Frozen or store cooked birds of any description aren't a patch on well prepared and home cooked birds i.e. dry flavourless, mass produced barn bred hormone bags - most of them. 

I love to enjoy and share an Aussie styled Xmas fair; home cooked chickens as above (cold or hot as preferred) beautiful (double smoked) ham cut straight off the bone (Central Food Halls sell nice hams), (the Swiss butcher in Rawai sells great hams too), home made potato salad, fresh sea prawns (peel em' yourself as they lay pink juicy n languid on a bed of ice waiting to be devoured) ????????????, green fresh garden salad (I/we grow ????????) homemade coleslaw, homemade hummus and tabouli, French baguettes, pavlova or trifle with home made ice cream for desert????????????????????.

Of course nice chilled French Provence Rose and a few nice icy golden coldies to choose from (I like Moretti, and Asahi Black label beers these days as a Xmas treat), and of course French Champagne (Perrier (white & pink), or Bollinger Vintage for me please).

For evening dinner a combination of Aussie grass fed steaks and fresh seafood BBQ'ed (repeat the salads). 

Hmmm .... I'm hungry already and its weeks away till family descends !

[MrJ2U]

On 12/5/2021 at 7:17 AM, arick said:

Would you try one?

Definitely.

 

Unfortunately the Issan branch in Sakon Nakhon is so limited.

 

Ketchup and Mustard is the only thing resembling foreign food here.

[scorecard]

11 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

We are having  new zealand lamb,the wife loves it almost as much as welsh lamb that is brought up on salt plains in s wales( can only get it there it is fantastic ) still tried one of those pre cooked turkeys one year ,not all that nice. So lamb it iz with roast parsnips ,sent by angels from heaven????

Don't forget the mint jelly.  

[scorecard]

10 hours ago, tonray said:

Guacamole stuffing ?

Mexican restaurant!

 

Any restaurants recommendation for good Mexican food in Chiang Mai?

[walt1]

36 minutes ago, MrJ2U said:

Definitely.

 

Unfortunately the Issan branch in Sakon Nakhon is so limited.

 

Ketchup and Mustard is the only thing resembling foreign food here.

 you get mustard lucky guy

[ray richards]

Frozen pre cooked turkey needing to be re heated sounds like a perfect recipe for big salmonella food poisoning, make sure people buy a good insurance policy at the checkout along with the turkey.

[monty1412]

11 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Had some remarkably strange looking skinny but also very fatty local Turkey a few years ago at a friends house - it was awful....

 

Also had a Turkey delivered by Sunrise taco’s (in BKK) a couple of years ago... obviously fully cooked along with pots and vet, stuffing etc....  a

 

It surprised the heck out of me that a fast food mex restaurant did turkey... t’was impressive. 

yeah I got the same from Sunrise and it was the best TurkeyIve had in a long while.. generous servings of side dishes and their cherry and blueberry pies are to die for 

 

[Guderian]

On 12/5/2021 at 7:17 AM, arick said:

and saw some brown looking frozen things here it was Precooked Turkeys

And what colour exactly would you expect a cooked turkey to be, lol?

[pest]

Tops in Phuket have Ingams cooked turkeys from Au or butterball from US

See attached

[chilli42]

Don’t do it.  They are hideous.  Tried last year and spoiled Christmas dinner..  subsequently tried Thai raised fresh Turkey and that was a major disappointment as well.  I am going to try goose or ham this year.

[jaideedave]

22 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Last year.... This year have only seen pre cooked Butterball Turkeys.

Thai turkeys are not cooked, but only look to be skin and bones.

regards Worgeordie

Had some Thai turkey a few years agto in Samui. Dark meat that looked and tasted like duck..the <deleted>s.

 

[jaideedave]

18 minutes ago, chilli42 said:

Don’t do it.  They are hideous.  Tried last year and spoiled Christmas dinner..  subsequently tried Thai raised fresh Turkey and that was a major disappointment as well.  I am going to try goose or ham this year.

Here's what I do. Get a pre cooked chicked from Makro, Make or buy stuffing/dressing, mashed spuds,gravy and cranberry sauce. You should be able to get 2 meals from that for under 500 baht. It works for me. I've been to local places that sell Thanksgiving turkey dinners and they shredded the meat?? yuk

[Iron Tongue]

Gave up on turkey over two decades ago, even after trying turducken (too time consuming) and deep fried in peanut oil (one trick pony).  Holidays at Iron Tongue's household revolves around prime rib roast.  Easiest thing to make and no drying out like turkey.  5-minutes per pound @ 500°F, then turn off oven and wait 2-hours without opening oven.  Perfect med-rare prime rib every time!

[worgeordie]

Its been a while since We have had Turkey at Xmas, they are just too big, 

you have Xmas dinner, then your eating it for next 2 weeks , sandwiches,

with chips , in white sauce , curry,  stir fry ,it never ends.

regards worgeordie

 

[AhFarangJa]

More meat on a butcher's pencil, and at 450 Baht plus per kilo, a complete rip off. 

[toofarnorth]

3 hours ago, walt1 said:

 you get mustard lucky guy

I have here a squeezy thing of French's American bland.  What makes it so much better is a dollop of McGarrett wasabi powder in it. Damn nearly as good as Coleman's.

[Randy99]

Can't have turkey dinner without home made gravy from the drippings.  Therefore no pre cooked bird in my house.