Thanksgiving - how to you prepare your turkey
 

How do you make your turkey golden brown outside and soft and moist inside?

Bob Dole hands his to his mother.

BlackBob usually sucks off his uncle and then ****s his turkey.

:facepalm:

I see no reason to do anything but inject and fry ever again.

Faster, tastes better, juicier and if I really want stuffing, that's what they make Stovetop for (and besides, a proper grandma can make scratch stuffing with just the neck and gizzard bag you pull out of the center anyway...)

Roasting means dried out breasts, undercooked dark meat or salmonella stuffing. If you tent the breast you can help things a little but it's still just not as good.

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Brine then Big Easy

I smoke them because that's what my mom wants.

Was there a problem with the other Thanksgiving thread?

I eat prime rib and don't do a turkey. That's how.

smokem if you gottem.
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Masterfully, I prepare my turkey masterfully.

My Dad smokes a couple of turkey breasts every year and they are fantastic.

Don't care about Turkey. However, when i DO do Turkey, i prepare a dry rub for it and bake it covered with strips of Bacon.

It's the Ham that steals the show any way. And I use a Citrus Rum Glaze for my Ham.

This is what I keep pushing for and never get.

I'm smoking a turkey this year.

You must master baste it

I just bought one of those Saturday. Seasoned it Sunday. Looking forward to using it Thanksgiving. (Just hope I don't ruin the bird on the maiden voyage!)

Just keep a temp probe in it and you should be ok, I keep the lid off for most of the cook unless it's really cold.

I've smoked, baked, and deep friend. Prefer deep fried. Will be deep frying and also doing one sous vide this year.

How deep is deep friend? Like balls deep, or is that like deep girlfriend, so deep friend would be like 3/4?

until she squeals!

Let somebody else do it

This year we are getting it cooked by reasor because the oven broke. But the stove work so we will be eating good.

first i put the tom in the brood pen......

I microwave

This is the correct answer.

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Brine it overnight, add some dry rub the next day and smoke it in my Orion cooker.

Not sure if you're joking, but my father-in-law does this. Not kidding. It's not as bad as it sounds, surprisingly, but it can't compare with just about any other way of preparing it.

Amateurs. They didn't even truss the legs.

Also, this has GOT to be Inmem's turkey.

those pineapples, or onion rings? never tried pineapples.
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Truthfully ? I smoke a huge ham butttttttt. If you really want turkey try this ..........
I smoke turkeys in a trader pellet grill upside down (breast down) fill cavity with sliced oranges and onions it tastes wonderful, I use head country seasoning on the outside after an olive oil rub. Keep a probe in it to monitor temp and let relax 30 min before carving, you will have the most moist breasts you can ever have and best flavor you ever stuck in yo mouth.

Thanksgiving - how to you prepare your turkey
 

Looks like onion rings or curly fries (maybe both, actually) and Cheez-Its to me.

From a fire dept: How not to burn down your house while deep frying a turkey

http://video.startribune.com/how-not...key/402304465/

Hope this helps

We bought one of these five years ago. I had low expectations, considering how inexpensive it seemed, compared to other options.

It's truly amazing. I really have no idea how it works as well as it does. But the turkey comes out crisp on the outside, and totally juicy on the inside. And it doesn't take all that much time to prepare it, or to actually do the cooking.

When we've had family over for Thanksgiving, I almost feel like I'm cheating. People go on and on about how it's the best turkey they ever had. And I've sort of gotten the reputation in our big, Mormon family as being something of a turkey whisperer. :)

Just get one. You won't be sorry.

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With lots of taters and gravy....

Funyons, cheez-its, and bacon

Smoking a turkey again this year, like I do every year. However; I'm pretty sure there was an injection recipe on here a few years ago that I cannot seem to find. The injection contained cream of chicken soup and a few other ingredients, heated up on a stove, then injected into the turkey (or chicken) prior to smoking.

Does this ring a bell to anyone on here?

We go to SUBWAY on Thanksgiving eve and get our Turkey foot longs like we do every year

Suck it and **** it

I’m cooking 2 geese this year. Rich and moist, goose is a far superior bird.

I take the family to the Walmart hot food bar.

nothing fancy, rub it with oil, inside and out and then put spices, herbs and onion in the inside of it. I tend to over cook these things because the thought of even slightly undercooked poultry makes me want to vomit.

Fried. Did it that way last year and probably won't ever go back.

Put it in the fireplace

Do whole chickens regularly, but have never tried my hand at a turkey

Guess I'd just treat it like an extra big chicken... lower and slower the better, with plenty of uncovered time to render the fat

I'll have to ask whoever invites me over.

Prolly be eating FGs

Spatchcock

In all seriousness if you bake or smoke your turkey and you're not brining it, then you are seriously missing out.

Brining makes the bird taste good, but the drippings inedible.

I’m surprised this thread title wasn’t “This turkey was made brown and moist by you?”

Mom wants me to smoke one. I will, like I always do, but Christ I hate turkey

How the hell do you brine a turkey? I don't have a pan that big. I looked at food grade 5 gal buckets but didn't want to drop that kind of coin.

Cooler.

If you're renting, be sure to put it out on your deck.

When in doubt, Alton Brown it.

[as in look up some mix of 'Alton Brown Good Eats Thanksgiving Turkey' on youtube]

Why in the bloody hell didn't I think of that?

I’ve smoked em, fried em, and brined and roasted them. I prefer brined and roasted. Least amount of mess, and IMO, the most moist and flavorful

I brine it and smoke it on the Weber off to one side with a tin foil shield. I save the drippings to make a Turkey and Sausage Gumbo over the weekend.

Probably.

I simply tell the wife to cook a turkey.

Traeger but cook at normal temperature

Just 4 of us this year so I'm doing Sous Vide turkey breast.

Using this recipe i've done before.

My daughter texted me asking how long she should microwave a 25 lb turkey. I told her that she should put it out on her balcony and sun bake it for about 4 hours instead.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMkUeZY_cqU

Cook your 22lb bird in 20 min. Cook anything really fast actually.

This turkey lived close to you?

I prepare my turkey by explaining to it that it's nothing personal.

This will be the third year in a row for a Joe's KC turkey. They know how to cook/smoke WAY better than anyone else.