What is the best method or tip to smoke a turkey?

Answer 1

Use this rub, Pour it between the skin and the meat shove your hand in to spread it aroud being careful not to tear the skin. I do it in the legs and breats mostly. Take the left over rub and pour it on the outside of the turkey. While you're doing this the coals should be getting hot and soak your wood chips. Place the chips on the coals and the turkey on the middle rack. Cook at 250 degrees for 1 hour per pound of turkey. You may use a water pan if you wish but this will increase the cooking time. You may neeed to add more coals half way through cooking. When you think it's done use a meat thermometer in the breast and the temperature should be 160 to 180. The joints of the turkey should be really loose you should be able to wiggle the wings and legs.
The cool thing is once you put the turkey on you have all that time to make the side dishes.
Good Luck and happy Thanksgiving
TURKEY SMOKE
1/4 cup oil
¼ cup burgundy wine
1/3 cup lemon juice
2 tbl melted butter
1tsp salt
1tsp majorum
1tsp pepper

* optional rub sage and/or rosemary

Answer 2

If you take one piece of agvive please take this. Read Allen Carr's Easyway to stop smoking. If you do it will be Easy. If you don't you risk buying into some of the really bad advice you have got so far. Things like , try not to think about it are psycologically exactly the wrong thing to do as Allen explains in the book and he is very right. He opened 50 stop smoking clinics in 10 years across Europe and he only managed is because he knows how to stop people smoking. Look at the other guy who mentioned allen carr before me, how many thumbs up is he getting, Allen Carr is the secret the Nicorette would like to bury. I tried to give many times over ten years , read this book, stopped cold turkey, could not belive how easy it was, where did you make my cravings go Allen. On my second day of quitting I went to the pub, got quite drunk and wasn't even tempted, I even held a cigarettte for a mean spirited fried who tried to test me while he went to the loo.

Answer 3

what I do is season it well all over with lowerys seasoned salt
I put the bird inside my smoker indirect heat method. My firebox is on the side. I get a good charcoal fire going and I toss in some pecan wood also. I let it go for about an hour at around the smoking point on my smoker thermometer. I then go ahead and wrap the turkey in foil and add some more wood to the fire. about every hour I go out and throw on some more pecan wood. It takes about 6 hours to make a real good smoked turkey. all together I start about 9 am and it is cooked about dark. You could smoke one all night before thanksgiving.Low and slow indirect is the way to go.

Answer 4

Soak mesquite chips in bourbon, add some bourbon or apple juice to pan of water when smoking. Heavenly with wild rice stuffing.

Answer 5

Low heat, around 225ºF and keep water in the bowl in the smoker. I use two bowls. The top one catches drippings, and the bottom one holds water. Check water level once an hour.

Answer 6

i can't help you much...i couldn't get the darned thing to stay lit..lol