Pluck, skin or breast?

DaveH · 03-14-2006, 02:44 AM

What do you do with your gobbler after harvesting it? It seems that breasting is fairly common, but wastes some of the turkey. Whichmethod do you use? If theres's another preparation method I missed, tell us about it.

huntnma · 03-14-2006, 03:50 AM

one is breasted out and i save the legs for soup and the wings for JW, the other is plucked........for frying whole

JLmoore1956 · 03-14-2006, 04:14 AM

Do the skin and breast, got to try the plucking next spring! [8D]

Rob/PA Bowyer · 03-14-2006, 06:05 AM

I've plucked but mostly skin.....ya got to watch em when ya cook them to keep them moist.

acurtis · 03-14-2006, 07:12 AM

I either pluck or skin

Tree climber · 03-14-2006, 07:17 AM

I always skin, slice and fry the breast.the rest goes into the crock pot to cook and use for dressning.waste nothing except the guts.save a lot of the feathers for other things.

JLmoore1956 · 03-14-2006, 07:35 AM

forgot, I also take thigh, legs and wings, boil down, cool it off, pull the meat off and then make bbq, or chilli or soup! [8D]

dvdegeorge · 03-14-2006, 07:45 AM

Breast,then take the legs and the rest of the carcus for home made turkey soup.

Campo · 03-14-2006, 08:25 AM

Plucking is for the birds......
I skin and breast, then save the remain after the breasting for whatever i feel like cooking, mostly chili...

mlo3135127 · 03-14-2006, 01:50 PM

I find the best way to pluck a turkey is, the second you shoot the bird, start plucking as fast as you can right there on the spot. The feathers come out easy and the messstays in the woods. Song birds can use the feathers for nesting. It makes for one ugly bird to carry out of the woods. It works good for me.