Until I announced the plans to my family and they burst my bubble. Half of them don't want smoked turkey (not huge fans of smoked meats period [I know, I know])! Oh the horrors! So much for using the hanger! So, it's compromise time. I cut the bird in half, oiled it up and used a nice amount of PBC All purpose rub. Not a huge S&G fan and I want to see how the all purpose tastes on turkey. So I'll hang half of the bird in the PBC the old fashioned way and do the other half in the oven.
Now the up side of this is that I can make MH's famous gravy since I'm doing half in the oven. Now I like my broth to get a bit more cookin' time than the bird is going to take, so I threw all of the ingredients into the roasting pan along with the backbone, neck, wing tips and tail and they are cooking away in the oven for an hour before I start roasting the bird. Already smells like Thanksgiving in the house!
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