I know a lot of people have different ideas on smoking a turkey. Here is what I found by accident one time and do it almost every time I smoke one.
I lived in a house that had an old apple tree in the backyard which I would cut some of the dead limbs off of to use for smoking poulty with. I was only using a Brinkman vertical in those days.
Well, there wasn't much for wood this one time, and my wife suggested throwing in some of the old apples we had. I thought she was crazy, but I did it anyway. She cut the apples into quarters. Well to my amazement, it was wonderful.... the apples gave it a darker skin, and a slight sweet taste. I have been doing it ever since.
Just take abt 4 apples, cut them into quarters and toss them onto the hot coals instead of, or with, some wood.
Bill
I lived in a house that had an old apple tree in the backyard which I would cut some of the dead limbs off of to use for smoking poulty with. I was only using a Brinkman vertical in those days.
Well, there wasn't much for wood this one time, and my wife suggested throwing in some of the old apples we had. I thought she was crazy, but I did it anyway. She cut the apples into quarters. Well to my amazement, it was wonderful.... the apples gave it a darker skin, and a slight sweet taste. I have been doing it ever since.
Just take abt 4 apples, cut them into quarters and toss them onto the hot coals instead of, or with, some wood.
Bill