<p>I always cook the turkey necks along with the gizzards, livers and hearts with celery, onion and carrots as a basis for the gravy. My kids though argue over who gets to eat it all. I can buy chicken livers, hearts and gizzards in the grocery store but not necks. Does anybody else actually use these parts. And does anybody know where I can buy turkey necks? Makes great soup stock too.</p>
<p>Oh, I thought this was going to be about Nora Ephrons book.
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.”
And
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
I suppose you could ask at the butcher.
I save chicken carcasses for stock, but don’t make turkey.</p>
<p>Turkey stock is the BEST - better than chicken - but I do use the entire carcass to make it. </p>
<p>Great question. What happens to all the turkey necks?</p>
<p>They are easily found at my grocery store around thanksgiving and Christmas. I use both and roast them with vegs before they go in the stockpot. I use the stock to make CI’s make ahead turkey gravy.
Maybe it’s too early? Ask at the meat counter/butcher</p>
<p>Turkey necks are probably ground up and tossed in with other junk to make bologna and turkey bacon and stuff like that.</p>
<p>There is a poultry standholder at our weekly local food market that sells them. I believe they have a shop somewhere that is open more days of the week also. Perhaps do a search for a local poultry shop in your area?</p>
<p>Try one of the ethnic markets. They often have more things than the local Safeway.</p>
<p>My husband buys extra turkey necks–he gets them at a meat market/butcher shop type of place. He uses them to make turkey stock, which is really flavorful and delicious. We always make turkey vegetable soup after Thanksgiving and it’s incredibly tasty.</p>
<p>Turkey necks were always part of the basis for gravy at our house. But we kids enjoyed snagging them for a tasty chew, too.</p>
<p>I don’t use livers–nor eat them in any form. The liver processes everything going through the body and absorbs a lot of toxins.</p>
<p>You can eat organic. It also tastes better, imo.</p>
<p>Organic yes. Organs, no.</p>
<p>Seriously this is about turkey necks, from turkeys? </p>
<p>I would never guessed it was about this ;)</p>
<p>I thought this was going to be about old women’s necks!</p>
<p>I thought this thread was about that loss of elasticity of skin that I am beginning to worry about </p>
<p>I will call around to see if I can buy them. Thanks for the suggestions.</p>
<p>Geez, I thought this was going to be about my old lady turkey waddle.</p>
<p>Lol, I also expected this to be similar to the pantyhose thread about sagging knees & varicose veins.</p>
<p>I throw away the turkey neck at Thanksgiving and would like to throw away mine too (there all year…)</p>