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Can I smoke a turkey using a V-Rack?

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Duganboy
Duganboy Posts: 1,118
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Most of the the posts that I have seen about smoking turkey have shown the pictures of birds on the pedestal upright roasters.  I would think it would be fine to use a V-rack, but would like for someone who has done a turkey that way to reinforce my thinking.

Also what is the heat range that most of you shoot for with a turkey.

TIA
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  • SMITTYtheSMOKER
    SMITTYtheSMOKER Posts: 2,668
    edited November 2012
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    Yes, we use the v-rack along with the BGE drip pan in the large.  It can handle a 15lb bird comfortably.  We cook at 325/350 indirect.   We pull when we get a 160/165 IT in the thigh meat. We have been cooking the 13/15lb birds in under 3 hours.

     

    -SMITTY     

    from SANTA CLARA, CA

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  • calracefan
    calracefan Posts: 606
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    Yep , been there done that , turned out great!
    Ova B.
    Fulton MO
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  • SmokinDAWG82
    SmokinDAWG82 Posts: 1,705
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    Yes you can, did it last weekend
    LBGE
    Go Dawgs! - Marietta, GA
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    Here is a popular method using a more standard setup. 


    Note in the pics MM is using a trivet so you can't really see it, but a V-Rack over the pan would work just fine as well.  

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Duganboy
    Duganboy Posts: 1,118
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    Thanks to all for the good answers.  Going to do one this weekend.
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 22,961
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    i'm all rib rack every year for at least 7-8 years. works great
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 32,336
    edited November 2012
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    I'm "All In" like a newly released book :)) with trailers.  Been slow roasting/smoking turkeys on various equipment for 30+ years-only screwed it up once-and it was the Indian not the arrow!  You've got all the toys to hit the home-run. 
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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  • Duganboy
    Duganboy Posts: 1,118
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    lousubcap said:
    I'm "All In" like a newly released book :)) with trailers.  Been slow roasting/smoking turkeys on various equipment for 30+ years-only screwed it up once-and it was the Indian not the arrow!  You've got all the toys to hit the home-run. 
    and it was the Indian not the arrow! 

    lou, that's what I tell my boys about their golf clubs!!!!
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  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,829
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    Duganboy said:
    lousubcap said:
    I'm "All In" like a newly released book :)) with trailers.  Been slow roasting/smoking turkeys on various equipment for 30+ years-only screwed it up once-and it was the Indian not the arrow!  You've got all the toys to hit the home-run. 
    and it was the Indian not the arrow! 

    lou, that's what I tell my boys about their golf clubs!!!!
    "Oh, come on Dad! If these clubs were bent to my lie, and the shafts were spine aligned I could hit them better!"
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio
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