On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 2:32:50 PM UTC-5, Terry Coombs wrote:
> Â* Pretty well describes our dinner for tonight . Late Thursday evening
> I put a pork butt (dry rubbed) and a 16 pound turkey on the smoker .
> Friday morning I had a "temperature excursion" , which I discovered
> later was caused by the smoker lid being blocked open a bit by my grill
> tool . Upshot is that everything got (way) overcooked and dried out .
> Crap ... well , the butt didn't do too bad as it was way over away from
> the firebox . The turkey is another story . Black skin , top layer of
> breast meat dried out . Drumsticks and thighs seem OK if overcooked .
> Wings edible , barely . So I got this bright idea , since I've been
> baking all day (loaf bread and 2 kinds of buns - baking post to follow)
> to make a turkey pot pie for dinner . Got taters , carrots , celery ,
> and some CofC soup , so ...Â* hey , I've been baking all day , the AC is
> turned off , and it's only 75°f in here . I'll slice veggies with the
> food processor and shred the turkey by hand . Pastry dough is chillin'
> even as i type .
>
> Â* Snag
>
>
At least you were able to salvage the meat. I've never had it but
how would smoked turkey do in 'turkey salad' as in chicken salad?