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    anybody else smoking a 'tumbled turkey'?

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     What is a tumbled turkey, you ask?

    It's from our local old timey butcher shop: Los Gatos Meats

    It's a pre-injected vacuum-packed marinated turkey. Here's a description from an article: The juicy, tender result of marinating a bird inside a tumbler from which all the air has been removed (which causes the turkey itself to expand a bit and accept more marinade). 
    Los Gatos, Ca (Bay Area, Northern California)
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      Yes, live shot.



      Happy Thanksgiving
      Looking forward to pics of your version.  :)
      Brandon
      Quad Cities
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      Looks horrible.  I'll have to see if I can find one...

      XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

      San Antonio, TX

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      edited November 2015
      Done deal
      Brandon
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      @Cindysue   welcome to the forum, and that turkey looks spectacular.  yours as well @Focker
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      My turkey went in at 10am. Pics to come. Thanks for the welcome!
      Los Gatos, Ca (Bay Area, Northern California)
      Lg. BGE
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      Brandon - that bird looks delish!
      Los Gatos, Ca (Bay Area, Northern California)
      Lg. BGE
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      Welcome @Cindysue, looking forward to the pics. I have not heard of a 'Tumbled Turkey"
      Lenoir, N.C.
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      @Cindysue Great looking grub sister.

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      Focker said:
      Yes, live shot.



      Happy Thanksgiving
      Looking forward to pics of your version.  :)
      Love it. Old school. You are a true master of the outdoor cook. I always enjoy seeing the variety you bring. 
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      Spectacular. 

      XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

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      edited November 2015
      @Cindysue  Delicious, I bet, but it looks like your turkey got into a c0ckfight, or whatever turkeys do in their spare time. 
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      yummmmmmmm Los Gatos Meats.......Yummmmmmmmm......
      Eggon neighbor!!!
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      edited November 2015
      North_Is_Up said:
      @Cindysue  Delicious, I bet, but it looks like your turkey got into a c0ckfight, or whatever turkeys do in their spare time. 
      LOL. Well thats the tumble in tumbled turkey.
      Los Gatos, Ca (Bay Area, Northern California)
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      Marinades work, but vacuum tumblers don't

      meat (flesh) does not have air holes. It is not a sponge. 

      Even if it did, remove the vacuum and the same atmospheric pressure that (hypothetically) allowed the marinade in would squeeze it back out

      can't buck science
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      =) Darby_Crenshaw said:
      Marinades work, but vacuum tumblers don't

      meat (flesh) does not have air holes. It is not a sponge. 

      Even if it did, remove the vacuum and the same atmospheric pressure that (hypothetically) allowed the marinade in would squeeze it back out

      can't buck science
      Ok. Good to know.
      In the end, All that matters is it tastes good  =)
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      Exactly

      i just get mental when they push pseudo science stuff

      marinade works. But fleah is simply not going to expand under vacuum. A marshmallow expands under vacuum because there's air entrained in it

      remove the vacuum though and they return to size. 

      Meat has no entrained air. And the cells are't separate. It's wishful thinking on their part. Approaching fraud actually


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      Yellow journalism  :s
      Los Gatos, Ca (Bay Area, Northern California)
      Lg. BGE
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      Nah

      just grumpy

      haha

      i'm sure on some level it works. just sounds a little "as sold on tv" :)
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      Darby_Crenshaw said:
      Nah

      just grumpy

      haha

      i'm sure on some level it works. just sounds a little "as sold on tv" :)

      You mean Wolfgang Puck's pressure oven doesn't work either? Nuther 500 bucks shot

      Steve 

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      Darby_Crenshaw said:
      Exactly

      i just get mental when they push pseudo science stuff

      marinade works. But fleah is simply not going to expand under vacuum. A marshmallow expands under vacuum because there's air entrained in it

      remove the vacuum though and they return to size. 

      Meat has no entrained air. And the cells are't separate. It's wishful thinking on their part. Approaching fraud actually


      Actually, I believe flesh does expand somewhat under a vacuum - see ebullism - but that really does nothing in allowing marinades to really more deeply "moisturize" a turkey.

      There have been folks who have done experiments with chicken breasts and they found that marinating in a vacuum only increased marinade absorption by about 1% and in the final cooked product made essentially no difference as compared to normally prepared chicken breasts.
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