The last several years my wife and I have hosted Thanksgiving at our place for her immediate family and I've smoked turkey and we've all enjoyed it as its the best turkey ever, right? Anyway, this year the inlaws are hosting as the rest of my wife's step brothers and sisters will be coming and...whatever. Point being my mother in law is making a ham because there are some turkey haters on the step side. She's asked me to also smoke a 'small turkey' she bought. I told her no problem and to stop by and drop it off whenever. Turns out she picked up one of these 8lb frozen turkey breasts and not a whole turkey.
And now to the point of this rambling...when I smoke a 12-14lb whole turkey I smoking temp around 250 and it takes about 4-4.5 hours to get the breast up to 160 center. What kind of cooking time can I expect with this full 8lb turkey breast? Experience with the full turkeys would lead me to believe this would be a similar experience, but I still wonder since this is 8lbs of solid poultry. Any experince out there with this and cooking time???
And now to the point of this rambling...when I smoke a 12-14lb whole turkey I smoking temp around 250 and it takes about 4-4.5 hours to get the breast up to 160 center. What kind of cooking time can I expect with this full 8lb turkey breast? Experience with the full turkeys would lead me to believe this would be a similar experience, but I still wonder since this is 8lbs of solid poultry. Any experince out there with this and cooking time???