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  1. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    I called it done at 11:30. Looks and smells good. The issue I ran into was that I didn't rotate the bird during cooking. The MES is obviously hotter near the front glass because that side of the bird read about 7-10 degrees hotter. So after rotating and getting the other side up to 165 it...
  2. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    I'm no expert but it looks pretty good right now. Temps at 157
  3. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    So I grabbed my instant read thermometer to verify the internal temps. I believe I had the temp probe into deep and was getting a false reading. My instant read shows 138 in the deepest part of the breast. I pulled the built in meat thermometer out a bit and now it's constant with the instant...
  4. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    Here is my setup with the MES and mailbox mod
  5. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    2 hours in. Bird temp is 146. Can only maintain a temp of about 250. It's 24 degrees outside.
  6. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    Bird went in at 5:30am. We will see how it goes. For giggles I bought a rack of baby backs and threw them on as well. I figured if I was going to fire up the smoker I might as well take advantage of it. I'll eat the ribs tomorrow night while I'm watching football.
  7. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    Thanks. That's good advice. Before I read your replies I was thinking that 3 hours into the smoke I'd have my oven preheated in case I had to finish the turkey there. The added benefit would be that it would give the skin a chance to crisp up a bit.
  8. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    Any recommendations for seasoning? I've read wet rubs on the outside and dry rubs on the inside? Anything between the skin and the flesh or all on the outside skin? Lastly, should I wrap it back up in cling wrap or foil before refrigerating?
  9. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    I've cooked at 275 before without having any problems, but that was in warmer temps. Hopefully I can pull this off. Hopefully the turkey fits inside the MES. Maybe I'll start at 5am just to make sure to give myself an extra hour.
  10. speedster1

    Night before turkey prep and rubdown.

    I'm be smoking my first bird tomorrow morning. It's a 14lb that should be thawed right about now. I'll be cooking in my MES at Max temp 275 with a 30 degree outside temp. I plan to use the mailbox mod with smoke tube. As we typically eat around 1pm so I need to get this bird smoked and out...
  11. speedster1

    What pellets do you buy?

    Northern WV.
  12. speedster1

    What pellets do you buy?

    I bought a bag of the Smokehouse Hickory pellets which I guess are not true hickory. They suck despite great reviews on Amazon. I need to find a good pellet
  13. speedster1

    MES Mailbox Mod! for use with AMNPS

    I finally bit the bullet and did the mailbox mod for my MES 30. Worked wonderfully but I still haven't found a good pellet to use. Did not bother with the oversized flex hose. Bought two adjustable 3" elbows.
  14. speedster1

    How should I finish my late night butt smoke?

    So I started smoking a 9 lb butt today around 11:00am. It's been wrapped in foil since 165F Current temp is 195F. I'm at 225F and I'd like to take it to 205. I gotta tell you, I'm so tired after working outside in the heat all day I can barely function. I suspect the shoulder will hit 205...
  15. speedster1

    New guy, well kind of

    Hey all. I'm a second time smf user. Took a few years off from smoking and user name seems to have been deleted. I input my email in the recovery and it said email address not found. I couldn't even remember my old user name. So essentially I'm back for round 2. I have an MES 30 and I...
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