Turkey Practice Run

[dannypat21]

I am in charge of the turkey for Thanksgiving day so I wanted to do a test run. I brined a 16 pound bird for 24 hours, then dried the turkey and let sit in fridge for 6 hours. I then made a compund butter with fresh garlic, fresh sage, rosemary, and tyhme, and some salt and pepper. Rubbed it all under the skin and all over the bird. Smoked at 325 for 3 hours with hickory and cherry. Thanks to all the great info I got on this site it was the best turkey I have ever tasted. Super moist, tender and tasty.

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[stephan]

Nice bird, looks great

[heiny]

Looks good! Hope the real thing turns out the same (I am sure it will).

[Crazy Harry]

looks good

[Alan in Ga]

Good looking moist bird

[---k---]

Wow. Most impressive. :thumb:

What did you use for your brine?

[blackdog043]

Nice, hope mine turns out as good on the real day.

[chillcoolcold]

If that is what you consider practice MY Lord! what is your bird gonna look like when its for real! Never seen one that moist!

[bigabyte]

Looks mighty dang good!:cool:

[dannypat21]

Wow. Most impressive. :thumb:

What did you use for your brine?

Gallon water, 3/4 cups kosher salt, 3/4 cups brown sugar, some apple juice, wooster sauce, chopped apple, chopped onion, honey, fresh tyhme and rosemary, garlic, black pepper and some cinnmon sticks.

[big matt]

Looks good man!..Left Coast wishes the best to you and the family for the holidays..looking forward to meeting up at tom's!..we just got a new Mak 2 star to do our chicken on..we are trying to end the year with a bang!

[Soapm]

Show off!!!


Good job...