--Turkey--

Well someone had to bring it up, it is Thanksgiving. For around 12 hours tomorrow I will be smoking a TURKEY. Charcoal, some apple wood and a bunch of hickory. My young guy and myself (for one day) will choose turkey over sex. Any of you dudes mess around with this ???

Turkey or the sex ?
Or both at the same time ?

Ya got me in a corner... For one day (not the night) its the Turkey. Look , got to take care of my fat gut on occasion. OOO don't forget the left overs. We do enjoy this fare....

Sounds great. If I make the trip to Owego, NY, I'll get deep fried turkey and roasted turkey. Speaking of sex, everybody up there has like four kids at least, my nephew's wife just had her fourth kid, my other nephew's son just had a kid, my neice is pregnant. Tight knit family up there. Man , do I feel like an outsider, old uncle Dan that never had any kids.

Yo Guy make the trip, Ya hear.. Thought about a deep fryer but still use the old cheap Brinkman charcoal smoker. Don't know anyone who deep fries, got me thinkin...

A buddy of mine gave me a smoker that he wasn't using anymore. Two weekends ago I hickory smoked a Salmon filet and 4 trout. So, for Thanksgiving I will be hickory smoking a ham; my wife doesn't like turkey even though I do. The package says 15 minutes per pound, its 9 pounds so I'm thinking 2-3 hours?

I'm getting ready to clean my equipment for 21 pounds of brined, deep fried goodness.

Smoked turkey, NO THANKS, I'll buy a ham before that. As for the deep fried method, where is the gravy for on the fillin'. Don't forget the dried corn. Try to eat as much as ya can and feel like sh*t for the rest of the day

Dried corn?! Isn't that animal feed?

jpete wrote:Dried corn?! Isn't that animal feed?

WHY, YES IT IS :pepsi:

Damn I thought I tried everything in the 60's and 70' but I never smoked any turkey.

Hi Guys,

We aren't having turkey this year. My husband is BBQing Boneless Babyback Ribs in the back yard. That, collard greens, Cajun potatoes and black eye peas, will round out the meal.

When we do have turkey, my husband pan fries it. He cuts the meat off the bones, slices it thin like a cutlet and covers it with a specially seasoned bread crumb mix (he won't tell us what it is) and fries it like fried chicken. It's quite tasty and that's coming from someone who doesn't particularly love turkey. The part I like best is that it doesn't take forever to do and the clean up is easy.

I hope everyone has a great holiday, Lisa

Done!
(last Christmas )
Charcoal, 3 fist sized chunks of apple wood, no water in the pan of a Webber Smokey Mountain cooker. Vents full open gets it to and holds it at 350*. 3 1/2 hrs start to finish for a 14 Lb pre marinated turkey. Not a dry piece to be found.
MMmmmm

I've done a few Turkeys. Secret is to get tit to room temp while you ice the breasts down, this way you can bring the other parts up to correct temp at exact same time as the breast.