Today I'm smoking a 17.7-lb fresh to frozen turket that I got from a Hutterite colony last year. Since it is so large, I'm smoking it beer can-style at 275*. Hopefully that will keep me from being in the danger zone for too long. Many thanks for Walking Dude for his help on this one. Here are my initial pics. More updates as they come . . .
Here's the bird in the brine. My brine consists of water, Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat beer, kosher salt, brown sugar and Tony Chachere's cajun seasoning.
Here's the bird on the can and ready for some smoke. I used a 46 oz apple juice can, which fit the cavity very well. Left half of the apple juice in the can, added a beer and some more cajun seasoning.
I also wanted to share a modification I made yesterday to my MES. I've wanted a more accurate measure of temperature and various locations and I want something that is more permanent than just running a probe in through the vent. So I cut a hole in the side (from the inside and then from the outside) and inserted cork stoppers in from each side (with a small whole drilled all the way through. This allows me to run the probe in from the side at a specific level in the chamber. I will probably add a similar port to the other side of the box at a different height once I'm sure that I like how it's working. Thanks for looking
Here's the bird in the brine. My brine consists of water, Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat beer, kosher salt, brown sugar and Tony Chachere's cajun seasoning.
Here's the bird on the can and ready for some smoke. I used a 46 oz apple juice can, which fit the cavity very well. Left half of the apple juice in the can, added a beer and some more cajun seasoning.
I also wanted to share a modification I made yesterday to my MES. I've wanted a more accurate measure of temperature and various locations and I want something that is more permanent than just running a probe in through the vent. So I cut a hole in the side (from the inside and then from the outside) and inserted cork stoppers in from each side (with a small whole drilled all the way through. This allows me to run the probe in from the side at a specific level in the chamber. I will probably add a similar port to the other side of the box at a different height once I'm sure that I like how it's working. Thanks for looking