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Favorite way to cook a whole turkey?

Shurdaddy
Shurdaddy Posts: 25
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Fellas,
I’ve got a 14 lb turkey brining that I want to make for dinner tonight. What is your favorite way to cook a turkey on the egg?
Lewiston, MN  LBGE
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,800
    edited January 2018
    Given your time-frame, grab the hatchet and spatchcock it.  Then run raised direct for around 100+/- minutes at 350-375 *F.  Legs to the back and have at it when finished.  
    Here's a link to the spatch chix process/recipe-just scale it up for turkey (the hatchet for the larger rib bones):
    http://www.nakedwhiz.com/spatch.htm  FWIW-
    Edit: go with the temperature for the finish-line.  160*F or so in the breast;  180+*F in the legs.  

    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • Paul B.
    Paul B. Posts: 57
    Hope you got it done.  Turkey is the bomb on the egg.
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  • Shurdaddy
    Shurdaddy Posts: 25
    Busted a scissors trying to spatch the beast. I decided to go indirect at 325-350. Breasts hit 165 around 3 hours into the cook. I could not be happier with the results!

    Lewiston, MN  LBGE
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,800
    Great outcome.
    Never doubt the hatchet with spatching a turkey.  ;)
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • StillH2OEgger
    StillH2OEgger Posts: 3,896
    Spatchcock all the way for us.
    Stillwater, MN
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,532
    Looks great!
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • 2beast
    2beast Posts: 50
    Beer can turkey turns out great.
    I have never tried to spatchcock one.........yet :|
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    I've never spatch'd a turkey, but I use a good serrated knife to do chickens. Might be worth trying on a turkey. Haven't tried a hatchet either.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    I prefer MadMax because you can make gravy, but spatching is hard to not appreciate!
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