Satisfy your burger cravings with this top turkey version. 🍔
Humanely raised, certified organic, non-GMO, Whole30-approved, and vegetarian-fed, this salt-, gluten-, and casein-free turkey burger had a lot of fancy claims on the box. Plus, it had the least amount of calories per four-ounce serving. All of that added up to the most expensive per patty of the bunch.
Cooked, the hue went from mauve to dark gray like imposter meat. It also became intensely tough to cut through."This is a rubbery pancake," remarked one tester of the dense patty, an impression that wasn't helped by its bland flavor and a weird, artificial aftertaste that followed every chew. With toppings, a turkey-er flavor emerged, but a very gamey rendition that felt uncomfortable.
Butterball is the brand leader in retail sales, and after testing this burger, we don't begrudge this ranking one bit. The white meat-only lean turkey patties boast no nitrates, nitrites, gluten, or artificial ingredients. All they're made of is ground turkey, sea salt, and some other natural flavors, which we're suspecting may include celery—a common preservative in"cleaner" processed meat products—based on the little peek-a-boo of flavor we got from our first bite.
Aside from weight, adding to their heftier feel is the fact that they're very dense—not overly so, like the Applegate, but enough that it feels substantial, necessitating more chew. The burgers do start off juicy when right off the grill but get drier faster than expected, which was good in that it forced us to slow down.