a seven-minute per pound turkey????!!!!

imb

Does anybody understand how this happened? 18 pound bird, 325F, convEGGtor legs up, drip pan on that, with six cups of water/wine and vegetables. The bird reached 160F after two hours....I was expecting four hours, when my guests arrived! (love the presentation; Thanksgiving isn't Thanksgiving without showing off how beautiful the bird looks coming out of the Egg, right?...). Curious how many minutes per pound y'all have experienced. In my files, I have two BGE Turkey cheat sheets: one of them says cook time for an 18lb bird is SIX hours...the other says 3.5 hours. I actually thought the bird was too cold going in, but then that should take longer to get hot, right?

Matt86m

My 17lb spatchcock turket 2.5 hours yesterday. Was expecting 3.5 hours. 

12 min per lb = 3.4 hours. Good thing I checked it at 2.5! 

Had my xl set up the same but I was running 375-400

cookingdude555

It happens. I overshot on accident with mine. 

wardo

Wow, y'alls cooked quick.