Gobbler meet the RT 590

SweetHeatBBQnSC · Nov 28, 2020

First time to try turkey on Fancy.Rubbed under the skin and on top with Dirty Bird and injected with Butter mixed with garlic and onion powder. Ran at 325-350* for 3 1/2 hours. Drizzled melted butter over the skin every 45 min. Rubbed the breasts with ice cubes before putting on. Bird cooked great, skin was fairly crispy. What was weird is the right breast cooked 20* cooler than the rest of the bird. Left breast was at 186* when the right breast hit 163*.
Thankfully the bird turned out very moist (both breasts), but the rub nor the injection give much added flavor. Also, didn't get any smoke so next time I will definitely run a little time on extreme smoke.
Any clue why one breast would cook so much slower?

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Stingerhook · Nov 28, 2020

Looks great to me Joedy.

Big George's BBQ · Nov 28, 2020

That looks great Check out the throw down

jzadski · Nov 28, 2020

Looks really good from here. Stinks it didn't meet all of your expectations. Breast temps, maybe one side wasn't totally thawed, was said breast up against a surface? I found brining either dry or wet does the most for flavor along with putting butter (seasoned or not) under and on top of the skin. For more smoke, I would add a smoking tube of some sort so you can keep the temp up. I have only smoked birds on my WSM and it can really impart smoke, cherry that is.

ronbrad62 · Nov 28, 2020

That is a great looking bird, and the only thing I can think of regarding the breasts cooking unevenly is placement in the cooker. Was one side of the breast farther away from the heat source or could the convection of heat been greater on one side than the other? Perhaps turning or repositioning the bird could have helped, like you would rotate food in a microwave if you don't have a turntable.

Whodat985 · Nov 28, 2020

Did you brine the turkey i find that makes a huge difference in final results of the cook. Think maybe one of you thermometer were pushed in either to far are one was touching the breast bone. I find that something throws off temp reading.

Tontotom · Nov 28, 2020

I had a couple of similar issues with temperature differences on my RT 340 cooking a duck. I put temperature probes around the cooker to get a profile of the hot spots. Very informative for sure. The side away from the hopper was up to 100 degrees hotter than the hopper side where the controller temperature probe is located. Front side was cooler by 20 degrees from the back side.

Position of the drip pan changed the front to rear temperature but only rotating the meat would solve the right to left difference.

mike243 · Nov 29, 2020

Try the Tony C's Creole Butter injecting next time, its very good, placement in smoker is the probable cause of a hotter breast, airflow is likely responsible, try flipping it around on the next cook 1/2 through, a 3 hour run at low temp high smoke is what I do, then into a cooking bag to finish in the oven. I could finish on the pit but after I get the smoke I want it don't matter where the BTU's come from

kevinstaggs · Nov 29, 2020

Looks like a great job on the bird. RE: your comments about flavor... it's jumbo yardbird, who cares. With the holidays gone you can get back to cooking real meats - the cow and the pig. :grin:

rwalters · Nov 29, 2020

Looks goooood!! Kinda frustrating when the parts of a turkey decide not to come up to temp together. Biggest reason I go spatchcock when doing birds. Much more even temps. As far as smoke, yeah... 325-350° won’t give you much smoke on a bird that big... but it will give you a moist bird. I am all about dry brining/injecting when it comes to big birds as most of my peeps don’t care for a heavy or even medium smoke profile on poultry. To each their own though

Shiz-Nit · Nov 30, 2020

Looking good brother

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