Smoked Turkey

Skeet Man

Greetings egg heads:   I cooked a 12 lb. turkey on the egg following a recipe in the egg cookbook.  As per the recipe I had the egg preheated to 400

with a good fire going, I then put the plate setter in legs up (per recipe) and added the turkey on a V rack.  The temp. dropped to 200 and even with the vents wide open I couldn,t get her over 200   As we had company I was in a fix so I flipped the plate setter ( legs down)  the temp. started rising immediately the turkey was excellent but a little behind schedule (actually a lot)

It seemed as soon as I added the plate setter (legs up) it smothered the fire   Is cooking with the plate setter legs up a good idea??????????

 

Skeet

 

 

 

 

 

fishlessman

next time  stabilize the fire with the platesetter in the egg. look for the madmax turkey recipe, its on the naked whiz charcoal site, everything is really spelled out well

ChokeOnSmoke

Yup, as soon as the fire is going, put in the plate setter, close the lid and then stabilize to the temp.  Then add everything else.