I'm planning to smoke a turkey this week for pulling and using for meals throughout the week.
I love my MES 30, but it just doesn't get hot enough to make good skin. I'm considering skinning it before smoking so that the rub can be on the meat instead of on the skin that'll just get tossed to the side anyway. My fear is that the meat will dry out doing it like this.
Anybody have any experience doing this?
My other thought is to smoke skin on and then pull it off and stick it under a broiler to crisp it up before throwing it back in with the turkey.
I love my MES 30, but it just doesn't get hot enough to make good skin. I'm considering skinning it before smoking so that the rub can be on the meat instead of on the skin that'll just get tossed to the side anyway. My fear is that the meat will dry out doing it like this.
Anybody have any experience doing this?
My other thought is to smoke skin on and then pull it off and stick it under a broiler to crisp it up before throwing it back in with the turkey.