Storage of turkey

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Dh has bought a turkey crown off his mate.

It’s in the fridge with a use by date of after Xmas.

I say it needs to be in freezer. How long can you store poultry?

I’m refusing to eat it.

I'd probably freeze it as its still quite a while until Christmas

If it's been stored in a fridge then It will be good in the fridge till the use by date.

Why wouldn't it be?

If it was frozen and you've defrosted it then that's different but if it's a standard refrigerated turkey crown then there's no issue.

It’s shrink wrapped. But l thought it only lasted a few days in the fridge.

do the instructions say about defrosting? could it have been a frozen product originally and his friend has let it defrost and had it as fresh

How can Turkey stay fresh that long?

Because it’s shrink wrapped? I don’t know😭we keep arguing about it

There is no way I would eat turkey that has been sitting in the fridge since at least 13 days before Christmas. Are you sure its not one that was frozen when bought?

Not sure

Does it have defrost instructions or just cooking ones?

If shrink wrapped = cryovacced then it can lady for weeks in the fridge. All the oxygen will have been pulled out which means that deterioration slows markedly. Unless you are amine sensitive in which case you wouldn’t want to eat turkey anyway.

Lots of travellers heading to the outback will cryovac meat for long trrm storage and Chinese/Japanese will often buy cryovacced beef to fly home with after visiting Australia.

Bugger. Last, last for weeks.

If it’s vacuum packed it will stay fresh for much longer than normally packaged meat.

But if you’re worried just go ahead and freeze it (unless it’s been previously frozen in which case you shouldn’t freeze it again).

I think it may be cryovacced? Whatever that is. It’s had the air sucked out of the packaging, but it’s fresh.

Honestly!
Do you think that they rear all the turkeys in the world to be prime a week before Christmas!!
almost all the "fresh" been frozen for months and defrosted in the couple of weeks before christmas.
It'll be fine