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Salvage work
On 8/26/2017 8:19 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> 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:
>>>>> 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 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*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. 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*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* --
>>
>> Â*Â* 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.)Â* He put
> water and wine and onion and seasonings in the water tray.Â* I think he
> used lump coal and added soaked hickory chips.
>
> It was the coldest night on record in Memphis.Â* 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.Â* 6AM?Â* It was so cold the coals wouldn't
> stay lit. LOL
>
> He thought it would be easy.Â* Fill the water pan, get the coals going,
> put the bird on and let it go.Â* Go back to bed.Â* It wouldn't stay lit!
> He had to stay up and baby it for hours, to keep the coals lit.Â* 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.  Â* But the
> smokey taste simply didn't work well for me in anything other than
> sandwiches. Â*YMMOV.
>
> Jill
Â* Thanksgiving 1989 I was living in Memphis too ! My son and his family
live in that house in Highland Heights now , and that's why we moved to
Mountain View Arkansas ... what part of town did you live in ?
Â* --
Â* Snag
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