Smoked Turkey

[Rich Parker]

My way of celebrating Veterans Day was smokin a turkey.

I forgot to tell my wife to pick up a natural turkey and she ended up with a small Butterball.

I planned on using this brine from http://www.cookshack.com/brining-101#_Toc528293334. But since it was already injected at the turkey farm I halved the salt, doubled the sugar and honey, and left out the Allspice and tenderquick.

I used Plowboys Yardbird (http://www.greatlakesbbqsupply.com/product.sc?productId=41&categoryId=2) as the rub and sprayed it with EVOO periodically.

The turkey came out nice and tender and juicy.

http://www.richardmparker.com/storage/11_11_09_turkey/Turkey1.JPG

http://www.richardmparker.com/storage/11_11_09_turkey/Turkey2.JPG

[tmogg]

looks great. its been alot of years since i smoked a turkey. had a customer ask for one 2 days ago, but i am not comfy selling one with no practice or experience lately. may need to get back up to speed with those fellers.....

[sfisch]

Rich,
Looks really good, never done one with an empty cavity, I usually throw apples and oranges in there, don't know why, guess because thats what was in the pictures I saw when I first did one.

Scott

[Rich Parker]

Rich,
Looks really good, never done one with an empty cavity, I usually throw apples and oranges in there, don't know why, guess because thats what was in the pictures I saw when I first did one.

Scott

I was thinking about stuffing it with apples and then I read an article that said it was a waste of time if you brine it plus it takes the bird longer to come up to temp with a filled cavity so i decided to skip it.

[sfisch]

Hey, whatever works is cool!, the end result is what its all about.

Scott