Poll
Question:
How did your Thanksgiving bird turn out?
Option 1: Best I've ever eaten
Option 2: It was good
Option 3: edible
Option 4: it was terrible
Option 5: non-edible
Assuming you smoked a turkey for (US) Thanksgiving.
Best ever, but didn't smoke it so I didn't vote.
Brined, loaded with an herb-butter mix between the skin and the meat and rubbed the outside with the same, then roasted. It was perfect!
I changed directions 3 times.
Ended up doing an non-enhanced 18lb'er.
No injection, just a Chachere's More Spice Rub.
Put it on at 3 in morn.
Took it out of the Bradley at 8:30 with a breast IT of 161*
Heavy FTC. and we all went for a 3 hour ride (use to take me 4 hrs ;D )
Unwrapped to carve and Breast was 167* and still hot!
Very juicy. 85% of it was gone.
Didn't cook, and it wasn't smoked so I didn't vote, but it was about average.
Did a breast on the Bradley and a full bird on my Lynx rotisserie. Both were good, but the Bradley breast was much more moist. And of course, the smoke.... loved it ;D
Had the element in mine go out two hours into the process so I had to finish the bird in the oven
Still had some decent smoke flavor, I used the Pepper, Tyme and Rosemary bisquettes turned out pretty good.
Don
I didn't smoke either and so I won't vote. I've already had a couple of compliments saying ti was the best turkey tyeh ever had.
It came lightly brined/injected so I left it alone. It went into the Big Easy (about 13.5 pounds) and came out golden and juicy. I did kinda miss having some smoke on it.
I have not smoked it yet doing it sunday but i will let you know its my first one