Rolled/stuffed turkey crown, sous vide or not?

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I'm picking up the turkey crown from my butchers tomorrow, it will be ready for stuffing. They offered it rolled and ready-stuffed but we fancied this sausage and apricot recipe from everyone's favourite fat-tongued Essex lad so we're going to do it ourselves.

Question, if doing that recipe (minus the bacon) would you get better results sous vide'ing and finishing in a pan, or roasting it as per his instructions? Gravy is not an issue as I'm getting chicken wings and bones from the butcher as well, to make that the day before.

For reference, I have a Thermapen so fairly confident I could roast it well (checking temps etc.). For secondary reference, pork needs to cook to 70c whilst turkey needs to go to 74c. I'd imagine sous vide'ing at 74c would be fine. I'm leaning towards that...

Thoughts?

 

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I'd sous vide if you have it, although you don't need to go to 74c.

I literally went to Serious Eats after posting this thread

I use my sous vide a bit but I'm not convinced it necessarily improves everything

On the flip side, I'm never interested in cooking (for example) chicken breasts because they're always just a bit dry and "meh". Thought I'd try sous vide'ing some a while ago and it was like a completely different food stuff. Lean meat is where sous vide really excels. I always sous vide my steaks too. The combination of salting them in the sous vide and obviously the accurate temp works wonders.

I know what you mean about losing the roasted sort of flavour/browning though. I would definitely brown it in a pan afterwards but that's probably still not the same..

Picking it up today so it might be decided upon whether or not it's too big to fit in any of my sous vide bags

 

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I guess you're not, finally, browning them ? I had thought everyone did. ...maillard.

Yes, definitely browning steaks after sous vide. With a bit of mayo to increase caramelisation. It works wonders!

I prefer a whole turkey at Christmas as the thigh and leg meat is so much nicer than the breast when roasted.

I'm always a dark meat (leg, in the bone etc) type of guy. I actively dislike chicken breast, I honestly don't see the appeal. However there's only two of us and the minimum weight turkey from our butchers was 4kg which might have been pushing it a bit