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Smoked Turkey Help

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CoachWiggs
CoachWiggs Posts: 29
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so our turkey is going to be done before everything else ready.  Any recommendations to prevent from drying out?
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  • jabam
    jabam Posts: 1,829
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    Spritz with apple juice or slather butter on it and wrap in foil. If you cooked it in a roasting pan leave it in there and cover with foil. Should be good to go. 
    Central Valley CA     One large egg One chocolate lab "Halle" two chiuahuas "Skittles and PeeWee"
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  • BBQbutler
    BBQbutler Posts: 82
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    You can hold it for hours in a cooler.   Wrap in foil.   Might in currently in a cooler ( with out beer
    LBGE , 22.5 & 18 WSM, 26.25 Kettle, Jennair Gasser, & a plethora of mobile Webers 
    Avid Cubs - Jaguars - Seminole fan. 
    Jacksonville, FL
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  • jstewart12a
    jstewart12a Posts: 144
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    FTC. Wrap it in foil, cover it in a towel and put it in a cooler. 
    1 LBGE. Winder, GA
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 32,337
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    How much of a head start does it have?  I ask because any of the serious foil and cooler wraps will cost you the skin.  You can effectively hold it loosely covered/tented  with foil and a towel for around 45 minutes and keep the skin while maintaining the temperature.  Beyond that process, you will sacrifice the skin but the flavor will still be there.  FWIW-
    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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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
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    You can easily rest it for an hour.  When you slice it make thicker slices.  Put the meat on a warmed platter and pour a little hot turkey/chicken stock over the meat.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • onesaxplayer
    onesaxplayer Posts: 79
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    I boiled water and warmed cooler knowing I'd be done early.  Cooler has a sign on it warning passersby not to open under penalty of having to eat oven turkey.
    When you get to a fork in the road, pick it up, spear something with it and throw it on the grill!!!
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 22,961
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    lousubcap said:
    How much of a head start does it have?  I ask because any of the serious foil and cooler wraps will cost you the skin.  You can effectively hold it loosely covered/tented  with foil and a towel for around 45 minutes and keep the skin while maintaining the temperature.  Beyond that process, you will sacrifice the skin but the flavor will still be there.  FWIW-
    This. Too late for me to chime in to have any impact but id rather eat cold turkey than have rubbery skin. 
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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