what is up everybody this is lyle with no hippie BBQ whatever you doing in this
video is we are going to be doing the best smoked turkey the thing that's going to
be a little bit different about this smoked turkey then the majority of my
turkeys is that instead of doing my own turkey brine I went to the store and they had
this turkey brine on sale for 50% off $8.99 so about four dollars and fifty cents and
it comes with the brining bag so we're going to go ahead and roll with this I
did look at the ingredients and it looks like it has all the stuff that you would
want and a brine so we're going to roll with this if you're looking to make your
own brine what I will do is in the description below I'll leave a guide to
what one of my typical brines would look like if you want to come up with your
own turkey brine it could be as simple as just salt and water and you can kind of get
creative from there well another thing we're going to do this different is
we're going to be brining the turkey in buttermilk
now this suggestion came from a guy that owns a company called miners mix and
they sell a bunch of different excellent seasonings over there I'm gonna leave a
link to where you could buy any miners mix products in the description below
but you know what I've never brined a turkey in buttermilk so we're gonna go
ahead and try that today first thing that we need to do is just go ahead and
get our brine mixture into our pot I have about a half a gallon of water in
this pot we're gonna go ahead and get this in and I'm gonna give it on the
stove bring it to a simmer and let it go for about 15 minutes and we'll pick it
up after that turkey brine solution I had on the stove is cooled down now
now what we're gonna do is we're going to go ahead and get our turkey into our
brining bag which I have in a bucket all right and I'm gonna close this bag up
and put some ice over when we're done let's go ahead and add our
lucien let me get at the time I don't want this bag to fall down in there
all right now we're going to add a gallon so we have a half gallon of that
brine solution now we're going to add a full gallon of this buttermilk and I'm
very interested to see how this comes out this is the first time that I've
ever brined a full turkey with anything like buttermilk
okay I'm gonna lift this turkey up just a few times just to kind of get that
solution mixed around in here and I'm gonna go ahead and close this bag and
I'm gonna put ice on top of this to keep it cool it's gonna have a chance to sit
in the garage for 24 hours before we get it out on our smoker like I mentioned
earlier the smoker we're going to be using is going to be my Camp Chef
woodwind pellet grill if you're looking to see any other smoker smoked turkey recipes I'll
put them in the iCard above and description below I have a turkey on the
weber smokey mountain have a turkey on the pit barrel cooker have a turkey on
the weber kettle grill so i have a few different turkey recipes we are
going to be cooking this turkey over 400 degrees if you've seen any of my videos
that do believe in high temperature turkeys anyway enough talking we'll pick
this up tomorrow so after letting that turkey sit in that
buttermilk brine solution for around 24 hours we rinsed it off rinsed everything
off Pat it dry and then what I did was I cut off some of the loose skin that was
on it and if you're trimming up turkey skin before you cook it leave a little
bit of extra on there because it's going to tighten up as it cooks now we're
going to go ahead and stuff the turkey what I do is stuff it with anything that
you have around the house that happens to be random any vegetables you know
like celery apples oranges lemons limes what I have is I have some apples that I
have quarter some oranges
and then I have a mixture of rosemary sage and oregano we're gonna throw this
in and by stuffing the turkey like this it expands the cavity out allows your
turkey to cook a little bit more evenly and it's going to pick up a little bit
of that essence as well as the turkey cooks
okay I'm gonna go ahead and wash my hands then we're gonna go ahead and get
this season done is the seasoning what I like to use on the turkeys of that cook
is an herb based seasoning what I happened to be using is my go to
it's called herb or herb de Provence you could use Italian seasoning or anything
along those lines I really try to stick away from anything that has salt in it
especially if I brined it because you might be over salting the turkey so
first thing I'm gonna do is we're gonna rub it down I'm using a peanut oil since
we are going to be smoking this at a high temperature butter or something
like that may not be good you want to go up the high temperature type oil to keep
it from burning we're just gonna put a nice little coat on it and now let me
have it oiled down what we're gonna do is just
go ahead and apply our seasoning to it now this oil is going to do a couple of
different things it's going to help it get brown and that's gonna help our
seasoning to stick to it as far as this turkey goes I don't really see a need to
season the bottom of it if you'd like go ahead season the bottom up and this herb
is really mainly for appearance more than it is for actual flavor
all right that is a done deal so we have the turkey seasoned up I'm gonna go
outside and get my camp chef started I'm going to be cooking it directly on this
pan since this is a pellet cooker and the heat comes directly up from the
bottom I want there be some kind of protection on it we're going to be
cooking this anywhere between 400 to 450 degrees just depending on how my smoker
performs it is a little bit cold outside so that may have a little bit to do with
the temperature they were going to be cooking it anyway I'll meet you outside
we are coming up to temp on this word about 330 degrees right now but I'm
going to go ahead and throw it on we're probably going to try to stay in that
425 to 435 area during this cook what I will do during this cook is I will
monitor it probably about every 45 minutes to make sure it's not getting
too Brown since we are cooking at this temperature the legs and the wings tend
to start getting a little bit dark so when that happens I'm going to go ahead
and foil those up cooking at this temperature this turkey should be done
in about 2 and 1/2 hours let's get it in
we'll go ahead and check this in 45 minutes see it in
we are about 45 minutes in on it I'm looking at these turkey wings and they're
starting to get a little bit dark so we're just going to go ahead and wrap
these up so I'm going to get both of the wings and then we're going to get these
legs as well
and what I forgot to do earlier with my temperature probe in so we're gonna go
ahead and get that in and if I didn't mention it earlier we're going to be
cooking this until we get to about a hundred and seventy degrees typically
you take a turkey off around 165 ish somewhere in there but since we're
cooking so hot and fast I find that the turkeys always stay moist so that's why
I've taken that extra 5 degrees so we're about an hour in on this and it's
starting to get a little bit darker so what I'm going to do is I'm just going
to go ahead and tint this it will start picking up some color even though it's
tinted but we don't want this to be overly brown
now we're just gonna tint it very loosely
so we just hit a 170 degrees and we're only two hours in on this so go ahead
and take off this and that does have the color we're looking for I'm gonna go
ahead and turn off the smoker bring it inside let it rest for about 10-15
minutes then we'll cut into
so that's it that's a done deal took just a little bit over two hours to get
this right in 270 degrees go ahead cut into it see what it tastes
like as always the breast is my favorite part
I'm just gonna kind of come down the side of the breast and then just do a
couple slices and that skin is definitely crispy and just gonna come in
the side right here here's we're looking like you can see all this steam coming
off of it whoo that's hot anyway it looks good let's just jump in
taste it all right looks good to me let's get in see what's up just to touch
a smoke just write them out I give you speak on this or pecan have you gone for
How To smoke a whole turkey
telling you I could get into this as a matter fact I think my wife has some
what are you making she's gonna be making some some kind of a smoked turkey taco
out of this I think the smoked flavors gonna go great with that anyway I like
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