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Salvage work
On 8/26/2017 10:43 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
> 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:
>>>>>> 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 !
>>>
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>>>
>>> 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
>
> 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 ?
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> Snag
>
Back then we rented a house in Hickory Hill, which was still a nice part
of town. It hadn't been annexed yet by "King Willie". We both moved
(to separate domains) shortly before that happened. I wound up in
Cordova outside the city limits. 
Jill
Jill
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