Just wondering who else was cooking the bird this year besides me. Deep fried? Smoked? Tasty lookin recipe you saw on TV?

 

Its in the oven right now

will be done in 1/2 hour.... Happy turkey day everyone!

Tx

 

Why would you go to the bother of cooking your own food, eating your own left-overs, cleaning your own dishes, rearranging your own house and putting all of your tables and chairs away for Thanksgiving when you could just go to somebody else's house?

Which reminds me that I have to be on my way now...

 

Just another work day, but i will get my turky fix with a hungry man tv dinner. there quite good really.

 

I smoke everything...well...not everything...but everything as far as food goes. I run the smoker up to 250-275 and put the bird on in a metal pan, breast up, with some oil on it. I let it brown then cover with foil twice. Let cook for 4 hours and wala! One big smoked bird. I use mosqite and pecan wood at the same time. I'll post a pic of the smoker here once it is approved. It is rather large. My inlaws put my smoked bird on the table in a different pan next to the oven cooked bird (since some don't like a smoked flavor) and there has not been once that mine wasn't completely gone and the oven pan was half full. You just can't beat it. And, it takes half the time.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

And remember, there is room for all of God's creatures........on my plate!

Here's the pic! The key to keeping them moist is wrap with foil twice, make sure the corners are real tight, and put a pan of water between the bird and the firebox.

 

I smoked a couple turkeys last year, used a combo of oak and hickory. Came out super tasty but a little dry, I think it was the birds I used. So much moisture cooked out of 'em that I never had to add water to the pan! Never had anything even close to that happen before, I'm pretty sure it was the turkeys rather than me mangling it for once.

 

James, you put this poll up and you didn't include deep fryin'?

I couldn't vote!

 

Bah, I knew I forgot one, couldn't think of it at the time though. Had turkey aroma wafting through the air, and was eyeing the loaf of fresh sourdough I'd just made thinking nobody would notice if I was to slice it and pilfer some early.

 

Yup, I couldn't vote either because I fried mine too. I even came up with a great new marinade recipe. Last year I smoked one for about 2-3 hours then I fried it..Yum...

 

I hear frying your turkey is pretty good.

But one thing... where do you put the stuffing?


You get flavor by grilling your turkey (all 18 pounds of it in my case) along with another 10 pounds of stuffing stuck in every orifice of that turkey

best stuffing i make comes from the turkeys insides

 

Deep fried!! The only way to have turkey!!

 

Me too!!
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26 pound free range baby!! And MMM MMMM GOOD!!! Lots of hickory wood chips for smoke and a 5:00am start time!

 

I volunteered to do the Christmas Turkey...and the gravy.
We are doing pot luck, everyone brings two dishes.

Having it at my uncle and aunts.

Scotty

 

Good luck with it Scotty, it's not all that hard. Just be sure and use the actual turkey drippings for the gravy, canned chicken broth is cheatin!