Kelly Bronzes - are they really that much better?

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Yes they are. Ive only ever cooked one myself - and have over the years cooked frozen ones, fresh from the supermarket ones, fresh ones from a butchers, but noone compare in flavor to the kelly bronze. We have got one ordered for this year and we are all really looking forward to it. I should also say that even my dh, - who will eat anything and is not really a foodie can taste the difference, and it was him this year that decided we should go for a kelly bronze.

Yes, makes Christmas Day the nicest meal ever. Lovely deep flavour - hung for 2 weeks - turkeys had a really good life foraging.

And a weeks worth of meat and pints and pints of stock to make soup in the new year.

It's not good value if you don't cook. If you cook and use all the bird it's good value.

I want one now! I'm not actually doing Xmas dinner this year but am intrigued to try.
Is there a difference between bronze and Kelly Bronze?

Kelly bronze, is just one from a paticular farmer - i think, but am not sure that he started the bronze, kind of introduced it, as until then people just ate white turkeys? not sure.
Anyway, any bronze will be better, they are slower growing, therefore the muscles will have worked more and the meat will naturally had more chance to gain more flavour, and i think a better texture. You can also tell a good one by where and how good the pockets of fat are, and what the bones on the leg joints look like. You can now buy bronze in the supermarket, but best bet is a local butcher ( if you are ordering i would do this asap) or local farm shop, ( which may be cheaper than the butcher).
As Laurie says, if you cook, it is sooo worth it, The leftovers have the best flavor, then the soups and stocks you can make from the carcas are wonderful. I normally get one quite a lot bigger than i need, one because if you buy from a farm shop the price per kilo tends to come down, secondly that i want to have lots of left overs, and ill fill the freezer with a years supply of turkey soup.

Sorry for waffling - hope it helps