Thanksgiving Success

[Jsrothstein]

Cooked a 20# turkey in my PBC last week. Wanted to follow the Ultimate Turkey spatchcock approach but no way was that boy going to fit on the grate opened up. Cut it in half (like other posts say, a helliva lot more work than a chicken) and hung the two halves on regular PBC hooks. Wife doesn’t like S&G so I used a light layer of Memphis Dust. Used about 25% lump, the rest Kingsford blue, for a little more heat.

Temp in PBC crashed after I loaded it, I presume because I added 20 lbs of cold mass to the chamber. Cracked the lid a couple of minutes to help the coals and then sealed it up and let it do it’s thing. Done in 3 hours, every bit juicy, smoky and delicious.

BTW, I laid the two halves next to each other on the cutting board and the guests started pulling out their cameras. Didn’t need the Norman Rockwell look. Bravo PBC!

[Donw]

Congrats on a successful turkey.

[Skip]

Sounds like a wonderful PBC Turkey cook!

[jecucolo]

Good for you! Too bad your guest didn’t fire off a photo to you. We like to see those kind of things...know what I mean?

[treesmacker]

Yeah, we love food porn!

[HawkerXP]

I've done two this season. Just 12lbers, hung on the turkey hanger. Yum yum.

[EdF]

Yeah, I like the smaller ones. Opens up the option of treating them differently. One year, we had a trad and a Mexican spices one based on a recipe in Saveur. I liked the Mexican better!

[fzxdoc]

Next time try hanging that 20 lb spatchcocked turkey from one rebar, placed diagonally. Hook through the "armpits". No need to worry about grate size or splitting that huge bird in two.

Placing the rebar diagonally will give you more room for the bird. Here's a photo of a slightly smaller turkey placed directly across the PBC with the other two rebar holes left open:



Sounds like you did a great job. Congrats on your Norman Rockwell moment with friends and family!

Kathryn

[Jsrothstein]

First, apologies for the absence of a picture. We were busy getting ready for our guests and I forgot!

Kathryn, great suggestion on setting a spatchcocked bird in an angle. I will remember that idea for next time. Happy holidays, all.