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Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #-1 on: June 20, 2013, 04:19:25 AM »
I had 5 turkey breasts that weighed a total of 38.89 pounds to cook and decided to do them in my classic Char-Broil 940X charcoal grill.

I started by mixing up my honey brine which will be injected into the meat.



Next step was to trim off the excess skin and clean up the breasts.



Injected 4 oz of the brine into each side of the turkey breasts.



Got the marinade out as each breast will be brined and marinaded at the same time overnight in the fridge. The marinade will be Wish Bone Robusto salad dressing.



After injecting, each breast was placed into a zip-lock bag and then the marinade was poured in over the breasts.



All 5 of the turkey breasts ready to go into the fridge for their overnight stay. I did turn them over a few times during this period to be sure the marinade was covering everything.

On the morning of my cook, I rolled my CB 940X to my cooking patio.



I had the cooker loaded with some South American lump and hickory for some smoke and I lit off a charcoal chimney and when it was ready, I dumped it over my lump in the cooker.



I got the breasts out of the fridge and took them out of their bags.



I sprinkled a light coat of my no salt, no sugar, no burn, and high temp rub onto the meat.



I had the cooker setup where the left 2/3rds of the cooking grid was indirect and the right 1/3 was direct. As soon as my cooker got up to 350 degrees, I loaded the 5 breasts into the cooker. 350 degrees on the cooker thermometer measures about 285 degrees on the cooking grid.



I cooked them about 1hr and 40 min and then wrapped them in foil.



They cooked an additional 50 minutes and were done at a measured 165 degrees internal temp.



The results of the cook.
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« on: June 20, 2013, 04:46:09 AM »
nice pile of turkey you got there. 
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2013, 06:36:08 AM »
Nice looking breast.
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2013, 07:54:54 AM »

TURKEY!!

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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2013, 08:03:59 AM »
That is some fine looking smoked Turkey. How did you like that south American Lump?

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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2013, 08:08:17 AM »
It's always Turkey time.  Looks great.
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2013, 08:19:00 AM »
Nice, thanks for posting
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2013, 11:38:07 AM »
That is a "pile" for sure.  A good looking pile of course.
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2013, 11:55:18 AM »
i'm  thinking hot open face turkey sandwiches.   :P
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2013, 01:13:15 PM »
Good work.  That's a whole lot O turkey to slice and pack
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2013, 02:39:47 PM »
Gobble gobble good! ;)
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2013, 02:58:09 PM »
Good looking cook Dave.  That will make a bunch of great turkey sammies.
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2013, 03:43:47 PM »
Mr. Keymaster,

That South American lump is lousy...After ordering Royal Oak from my local Doitbest hardware store for several years and getting the good American made stuff, the store got in my 700 pounds of the Royal Oak stuff from Brazil and like a dummy, I took it. I still got about 100 pounds left to use. It is a terrible product.
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2013, 03:58:09 PM »
Did someone  mention turkey sandwiches??



Start with a pile of sliced turkey breast.

I like to toast the white bread and then add some turkey slices, some mayo, a tomato slice, some lettuce, and an onion slice.



Then I add some ABT's and a couple of pork shooters.





And that is my plate.
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Re: Pile-O-Turkey
« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2013, 12:17:57 AM »
Did someone  mention turkey sandwiches??



And that is my plate.

And a fine plate it is! Very nice.
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