I ended up removing the entire breast bone. Question...

jls9595

I'm cooking my turkey tomorrow and after I spatched it I tried to break the breast bone so it would lay a little more flat. It broke to one side so it was pretty uneven. I just removed the whole sternum. How will this affect my cook? Should I use a rack under the breast to prop it up a bit? Thanks

Canugghead

That's interesting, I'm thinking may be propping with few whole potatoes and onions, instead of a rack?  Hopefully they'll help protect the sternum-less breast from cooking too fast?

jls9595

sounds good, just put them on the v-rack? I plan on going raised direct.

paqman

I would go indirect

Canugghead

paqman said:

I would go indirect

+1

You can also add a couple of lemons 

paqman

Canugghead said:

paqman said:

I would go indirect

+1

You can also add a couple of lemons 

Lol

SGH

In my experience and opinion it will cook the very same. The only thing that would affect how it cooks if some of the meat is actually folded over or over lapped. Short of this no problem. You can easily tell if any of the meat is tucked or folded by both looking and secondly feeling it. Now for presentation reasons I might would prop it up, but it will cook just fine. Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving.

jls9595

thanks everyone, I'm going to the store for a lemon in the morning 

Terrebandit

When spatching a turkey, don't you do it just like a chicken? I always remove the breast bone on a spatch chicken.

stemc33

Standing by for the results.
Spatching my turkey was a lot harder than doing a chicken. My shears just wouldn't cut through it. Once I got the backbone out, the breast just broke with a litte pressure. That part of the spatchcock was the easiest. Actually easier than most of the chickens.

Grillmagic

I have broke the breast bone more than once when spatching and removed it because I did, after doing it both ways I now leave the broke breast bone in it because I think there is a little flavor to be had from it, either way you will be fine and it will taste GREAT!

grege345

stemc33 said:

Standing by for the results.
Spatching my turkey was a lot harder than doing a chicken. My shears just wouldn't cut through it. Once I got the backbone out, the breast just broke with a litte pressure. That part of the spatchcock was the easiest. Actually easier than most of the chickens.

Swmbo said it looked like I was giving the turkey CPR when I was trying to break it down.

stemc33

grege345 said:

stemc33 said:

Standing by for the results.

Spatching my turkey was a lot harder than doing a chicken. My shears just wouldn't cut through it. Once I got the backbone out, the breast just broke with a litte pressure. That part of the spatchcock was the easiest. Actually easier than most of the chickens.

Swmbo said it looked like I was giving the turkey CPR when I was trying to break it down.

Too funny. )

Canugghead

jls9595 said:

thanks everyone, I'm going to the store for a lemon in the morning 

lemons are for chicken, you should get a small orange?