Yesterday's Spatchcock Turkey

Fornia

As my wife always works the big day, we normally do a Turkey on Friday...post the craziness of Black Friday shopping.

We left the house yesterday at 3amEST...I'm not a shopper, especially the malls, so I'm pretty much the designated driver. I do however go inside at the Lehigh Valley Mall in Allentown, PA. They've got a very cool German bar/restaurant named Dunderbak's. Awesome brew selection and great food as well. Not the norm for 'malls' here in our neck of the woods. My 10am I'd had a few Spatens and ended up back out in the car for a power nap. The girls always question why I don't mind waking up to drive them...well; Dunderbak's isn't hurting their cause. I highly recommend it if you're in the area and somehow in the Mall.

I wanted to try a Spatchcock Turkey, after seeing it at Fred's TurkeyFest a few weeks back. We love Max's method, but I figured I'd try something new.

Sat the spatched bird in a Cranberry/Southern Comfort Brine. Then patted dry, rubbed with olive oil and rubbed with Tasty Licks Traditional Turkey (another great one from Fred and Tasty Licks!).

Indirect at 375 for just under 2 hours. The breast/thighs cooked very uniformly to their respective proper temps.

Also really enjoyed some of the underside meat 'chunks', which had a nice bark. Very tasty.

Overall, nice charcoal flavor throughout the bird. We liked the brine and the meat was very moist. (but I've been putting everything from turkey to chicken wings in brine the last few months, so who knows).

Will be doing this again soon!

Grandpas Grub

 
Very nice looking bird. Fowl sure comes out great on the egg. What temperature did you cook the bird to.

I want to make some deli turkey and it looks like spatchcock just might to the trick. I will usually cook the bird to 165° when making deli meat then up to 190° - 200°.

GG

2Fategghead

That looks good Jason. You have a lot of turkey to eat now. :P Tim

Egg Master 3000

That is some beautiful color!

thechief96

That is one nice looking bird Jason.

Mickey

I like the spatchcocked bird. Very nice...

Firetruck

Nice lookin byrd

Fornia

Grandpas Grub wrote:

 
What temperature did you cook the bird to.

I want to make some deli turkey and it looks like spatchcock just might to the trick. I will usually cook the bird to 165° when making deli meat then up to 190° - 200°.

GG

Funny you should ask... Got caught on the phone with DirecTV (whole other story! ), and went out to check bird. It was 190 in thigh and 167 in breast.

Still real, real juciy...credit to the Egg and brine?

cookn biker

Looks great Jason. What flavor wood did you use, if any.

Fornia

Thanks Molly!

Didn't actually add any wood....just lump mix of RO and Restaurant Blend (blue bag).

Had a great taste really...and you can't beat the time (less than 2 hr.)!