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Thanksgiving Blunders

PoppasGrill
PoppasGrill Posts: 375
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Went out this morning 07:00 and got the Egg fired up, then went in to prep my ham. Mixed up a glaze, delicately placed the pineapple rings, poured some glaze over the ham, looked pretty darn good if I do say myself.
Check to make sure the temp was stablized at 325*, then foiled and carried the ham out and put it on. 
Checked a few times over the next hour to make sure temp was staying where I wanted it.
At the end of the second hour I opened the Egg to pour some more glaze on. That’s when I noticed that the outside of the ham looked like a big piece of lump.
All the juices had boiled away, the pineapple slices and ham skin was charred and I was completely disgusted.
I was able to cut the char off and slice the ham, so wasn’t a total loss .
Didnt get pictures of it , since I was prepared to toss the whole thing and just make burgers, until my wife talked me from the ledge.
everything else is looking good so far though.
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  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    I've been on that ledge and luckily have the same kind of wife. 
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,317
    I'm sorry it didn't work out how you planned.  It sounds like a good time to remember that it is about the people and not the food.   :)

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, 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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  • Theophan
    Theophan Posts: 2,656
    If it helps, my son-in-law in NYC bought a super exotic, organic, free range, heritage, all the wonderful stuff you-name-it, that he had bought the year before and was spectacular that year, and followed the directions same way he did before, which included brining the bird in a bag in a box in the fridge overnight.  At 2:00 AM he discovered the bag leaked and he had brine with raw poultry juice all over his kitchen floor...

    So he cleaned it all up, did all of it AGAIN in a different bag...  And when they got up this AM, THAT bag had leaked and AGAIN they had brine and raw poultry juice all over their kitchen floor (in a NYC apartment).  He was so upset about it all that he didn't want anything to do with that turkey, anymore, threw it out, bought a new organic one at the Whole Foods nearby, and cooked that one instead.

    Holy Moly.  I think I may write to him and say two words:  "Dry Brine."
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