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In the Brine...




In the sink after a quick rinse...






Seasoned up and ready to go...







Smoker getting ready...







Still sober, so we'll see how the quality of this thread progresses!

Fire's ready with some Pecan wood...





And in goes the Turkey...

Are you eating that tonight? How long does it smoke for?

Great start HH. Keep it going...

This is for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night. I smoke for about 2 hours per pound right around 200-220. I was wrong about the size of this turkey, this is just under 14 LBS.


Still going strong, and starting to look good....






There a cinder softball in that pic for anyone who's willing to go there.


I'm also going to do a Fried Turkey, So I'll PET that one as well.

Do you use smoke the whole time or do you ever switch to just coals?

Do you ever wrap it in foil?

I only smoke for the first few hours. Essentially 2 loads of wood, and then just coals. With a barrel smoker like this that is above direct heat and smoke, the smoke flavor gets pretty intense after awhile. The skin on this bad boy is inedible, but it locks in all the moisture. At this point, it is its own foil.

Let's go to the tape...


At this point, I figured the Turkey was getting lonely, and needed some friends.




Some brats, onion and beer...




Ready to join their buddy...





One big happy family...





Some last minute charring...






Game on...






5:00AM... booze wears off, dedication kicks in...
























Here's the cinder reset you fucks were to lazy to go out and get...

^^^

Rack the PET so far.

This is the first year I am not stepping FOOT in the kitchen for Thanksgiving except to make a plate. Kinda nice. Kinda sucks. That's the downside to moving next to the in-laws. I have to do all their family shit.

Indy, enjoy pacing around the kitchen feeling like a eunuch. I've done a couple of those in my time, and I usually push my way in to do something. Usually peel potatoes or something, but I can never just relax and let someone else handle everything.

Oh, HH, it gets worse. My in-laws "cater". Dis-fucking-gusting. Trust me, I won't be near the kitchen when they open the plastic containers to dump food onto $500 serving trays.

2 years ago, I offered to do the meat. They obliged. I fried a turkey, smoked a turkey and smoked a ham. They also brought in a roasted dried out turkey. The vast majority ate that shit. I said never again. Those who did eat my birds and ham were appreciative, but having 25 lbs of turkey and 3/4 of a ham left over after 40+ people ate was more than I could take.

Seriously, midwesterners have no taste for anything but bland dried out crap. I can't make that.

Plastic? on Thanksgiving? That's what you wrap your shit up with when you're done eating.

I don't know what to say.

trev wrote:

I don't know what to say.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Hot off the grill...




Peel back that nasty black skin (s'up MVSCAL?) to reveal the real treat...





Fall off the bone tender...





Fuckin A! I think I'll go make a sammich that looks so good...









That'll wrap it up folks. Hope you enjoyed.

Nice....


Let's see the sammich.

Sammich is long gone. We also had a fried turkey, ans a turducken. I'll be eating Turkey until Tuesday. That's alright with me.

Headhunter wrote:Here's the cinder reset you fucks were to lazy to go out and get...

rotflmao