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Terry Coombs

On 8/26/2017 6:24 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 8/26/2017 4:03 PM, wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 2:32:50 PM UTC-5, Terry Coombs wrote:
>>> Â*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 75Â°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*Â*Â* Snag
>>>
>>>
>> At least you were able to salvage the meat.Â* I've never had it but
>> how would smoked turkey do in 'turkey salad' as in chicken salad?
>>
> I can't answer how it might work in turkey salad.Â* I can say smoked
> turkey has never worked well in anything I ever tried to use it in.Â*
> It wasn't oversmoked or dried out, but the smoked taste was
> overwhelming. Smoked turkey tetrazzini and smoked turkey pot pie sure
> didn't taste good.
>
> Jill

Â* You must not have been holding your mouth right ... this one turned
out pretty good , would have been better if I'd used 2 cans of cream o'
soup . Not quite enough gravy for my taste buds . Oh well , I can do it
again another time . Smoke was not overpowering - what did you smoke
your turkey with ? I used chunk charcoal and some mesquite a friend gave
me last spring . A nice change from the cherry I usually use - you'd be
surprised how much smokin' chunks you can get from a 50' wild cherry tree !

Â* --

Â* Snag