You know how they say helicopter parents are those parents that are always hovering over every single thing their child does? Well, that's me with smoking meat. I put something in the the smoker and I go nuts and obsess over it the whole time.
I been really wanting to break myself of this habit, so I decided to do an overnight smoke where I'm forced to sleep instead of hover.
I had a free turkey someone gave me thawed out, so I decided to use that. I've done turkey breast and turkey legs separate, but never a whole turkey. Meh, what the heck.
I brined it the day before, got home from church Wednesday night, preheated the MES30 to 250° for an hour, rubbed it with some poultry rub I found in my cabinet, got my 12" Amazen Pellet Tube Smoker filled with alder, started and positioned it, then stuck my turkey in and got in bed by 9:30pm.
My alarm on my Maverick ET-733 went off at 3:03am to tell me it was done. I wrapped the bird up, stuck it in my cooler, covered it with towels, went back to bed and then at 4:30am I woke up, went to the gym like normal, came back by 6:00am and started carving up the gobbler.
Goodness gracious! This is the best turkey I've ever had! I could hardly keep the thigh together because it was falling off of the bone. The legs just pulled right off. The breast was raining juices as I was slicing it up. And the smoke flavor was deep, rich, and perfectly complimentary to meat. Mmm!
Thank you, Mr. Turkey, for showing me that you don't need my obsessive behavior to taste so delicious.
I been really wanting to break myself of this habit, so I decided to do an overnight smoke where I'm forced to sleep instead of hover.
I had a free turkey someone gave me thawed out, so I decided to use that. I've done turkey breast and turkey legs separate, but never a whole turkey. Meh, what the heck.
I brined it the day before, got home from church Wednesday night, preheated the MES30 to 250° for an hour, rubbed it with some poultry rub I found in my cabinet, got my 12" Amazen Pellet Tube Smoker filled with alder, started and positioned it, then stuck my turkey in and got in bed by 9:30pm.
My alarm on my Maverick ET-733 went off at 3:03am to tell me it was done. I wrapped the bird up, stuck it in my cooler, covered it with towels, went back to bed and then at 4:30am I woke up, went to the gym like normal, came back by 6:00am and started carving up the gobbler.
Goodness gracious! This is the best turkey I've ever had! I could hardly keep the thigh together because it was falling off of the bone. The legs just pulled right off. The breast was raining juices as I was slicing it up. And the smoke flavor was deep, rich, and perfectly complimentary to meat. Mmm!
Thank you, Mr. Turkey, for showing me that you don't need my obsessive behavior to taste so delicious.