On 8/26/2017 8:30 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
> 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:
>>>> 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 ... 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 .
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>> I can't answer how it might work in turkey salad. I can say smoked
>> turkey has never worked well in anything I ever tried to use it in. 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
>
> 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 !
>
> --
>
> Snag
>
This was 1989 or so and my *brother*, who was my roommate at the time,
decided he wanted to smoke the Thanksgiving day turkey. (I'd made the
mistake of giving him a Brinkman smoker for his birthday.) He put water
and wine and onion and seasonings in the water tray. I think he used
lump coal and added soaked hickory chips.
It was the coldest night on record in Memphis. He'd gone out partying
with his friends and didn't get home until about 3:00AM. He went to
bed... then dragged himself out to light the coals in the smoker around
a few hours later. 6AM? It was so cold the coals wouldn't stay lit. LOL
He thought it would be easy. Fill the water pan, get the coals going,
put the bird on and let it go. Go back to bed. It wouldn't stay lit!
He had to stay up and baby it for hours, to keep the coals lit. I think
we finally ate around 4PM that day. Good thing we weren't expecting
company!
It tasted fine when we finally got to eat some of it.
But the smokey
taste simply didn't work well for me in anything other than sandwiches.
YMMOV.
Jill