Butterball Frozen Stuffed Turkey
Greetings all!
We bought one of these birds at Atlantic Superstore a couple of weeks ago on sale for $1.39 a pound on a three day sale. Then there was a $3 coupon in the flyer on them, so it was a fairly good deal. Our 6 kg turkey ended up costing about $12.
I generally don't buy Butterballs, almost entirely because they're expensive, generally more than the other frozen turkeys,. I don't think I've ever cooked one actually, certainly not a prestuffed one. But the price was right and worth a try!
I went into Superstore around 8 a.m. on the Saturday, this sale started on Friday. I saw none of the sale turkeys, so asked at the meat deparment. They had ONE behind the counter, only because it was buried at the bottom of a bin of different ones when they came in. It was small they warned, but I only wanted a small bird, so I took it. We cooked it today.
You cook it from frozen, so it's convenient that way. But being frozen and stuffed, it will take a long time. We cooked ours for over four hours, and it was under 6 kg, so allow some time.
Flavour- the meat itself, for me, it was juicy and flavourful, but just a bit too salty for me. We don't use a lot of salt in our household, not really for health reasons, but just because we're not keen on it, we're not used to it. For some folks the salt level might be OK, we might be just weird. ;)
Stuffing - in addition to the stuffing in the turkey, we also purchased two boxes of Stovetop turkey stuffing. My DH is BIG on stuffing, so we made extra. Sometimes we make our own from scratch, sometimes we use Stovetop and dress it up. To the Stovetop we added onions, mushrooms, several colours of peppers, mixed nuts and summer savory. Understandably, our stuffing was better than what the turkey came with. The included stuffing really wasn't bad, fairly decent actually, but again, more salty than I would have preferred.
Overall, about a 7 out of 10, but that is for the juicy turkey and the value at the price we paid, the convenience is worth something too. We probably won't buy one again, but mostly because of the salt level, plus we're unlikely to find it for this price again.
Merry Christmas!
Z