Turkey 8 lbs.

RaySMS

My wife would like me to smoke a turkey on the egg and it is an albs, she doesn't really care about the smoke as she 
wants me to cook it and try to keep it moist.

So any suggestions?  I think Indirect for starters, what should the temp be and how long.....what are your thoughts?


Asking the experts 

SoCalTim

My suggestion is to brine it, hit up the search box, lotsa good info. As far as temp, 350 sounds like a good round number, cook to 165. 

bhedges1987

never done turkey on the egg.... but I have purchased a briner and am anxiously awaiting thanksgiving.  My family rotates who cooks them, and this is the first year in the last 5 that it is my turn..... Not sure why I need to wait for thanksgiving.... It just never crosses my mind to cook a turkey until then

Elijah

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/good-eats-roast-turkey-recipe.html


I follow this, but cook on the egg. I generally add some smoke wood but only a little. I also follow the naked whiz method of icing the breast before cooking. Highly recommended. 

Elijah

After looking at the recipe I should add that I think I followed the mad max cooking technique, Alton Brown everything else.

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/madmaxturkey.htm

BizGreenEgg

+1 on Alton Brown's recipe.  I usually smoke with a little pecan.

jak7028

I cook it like I would a chicken, spatchcock it and cook raised indirect at 350-400 until the breast are 160-165.  If you add any wood chunks, uses a milder wood, and not to much.  Birds dont need a lot of smoke flavor.

If you dont have room to flatten it out, I have kept turkeys whole and cooked them on a roasting rack, but same temperature range.  It just takes longer cooking like that to get to 160-165 in the breast.  

Overall, I have found turkeys to be pretty easy to cook on the BGE.  My wife always hated turkey because all she ever had was dry, oven roasted thanksgiving turkeys people served.  She loves smoked turkey on the BGE.