Thanksgiving Turkey on the Egg

colt84

first time doing my turkey on the egg.  Came out great!  325F, only a 12 pounder, for around 3.25 hours indirect with hickory chips. Mixed butter, garlic, rosemary, salt, and pepper together for rub that I also put on the inside of the breast skin. Did the bag of ice on the breasts before eggtime and came out perfectly cooked on inside and crispy on the outside.  Gotta love the BGE baby!    

Woodchunk

Congrats

colt84

Here’s the pics

JohnnyTarheel

Great job there!!!

HogManDan

Looks awesome!

DonWW

Good looking bird!   How much smoke flavor did you get?

onedbguru

my son did a spatchcock turkey on his XL that turned out really good and juicy.  indirect at ~500 and took right around 1:10. 

flexfusion

Did you cook the turkey in the foil pan or the turkey on the grill?  Thanks!

colt84

I ended up cooking it in the pan on the egg.  I wanted to make sure I didn’t loose any of the dripping for gravy.  I would have liked to raised the turkey over the pan but didn’t have the right equipment and am not much of a mcgiever like some of this board!  Still came out great though.

JMCXL

colt84 said:

“ Did the bag of ice on the breasts before eggtime and came out perfectly cooked on inside and crispy on the outside. “

What was the benefit/purpose of the bag of ice on the breast before cooking. Have not heard that one before. 

I did my turkey on the grate with a drip pan before with foil separating it from the stone. Best turkey ever. Did a brine and was very tasty 

lousubcap

@JMCXL - the thought behind the ice deal is to cool the breasts prior to the cook since that meat finishes at a lower temp than the legs/thighs.  It works.  However, I find that running with the legs to the back of the LBGE also helps as mine runs hotter back there.  FWIW-

JMCXL

Interesting, will try on my next turkey