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Favorite way to cook a whole turkey?
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Shurdaddy
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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?
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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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. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. -
Hope you got it done. Turkey is the bomb on the egg.
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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 -
Great outcome.
Never doubt the hatchet with spatching a turkey.Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. -
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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 -
Beer can turkey turns out great.
I have never tried to spatchcock one.........yet -
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!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
I prefer MadMax because you can make gravy, but spatching is hard to not appreciate!=======================================
XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP
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EIB 6 Oct 95
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