Turkey Turbo Trusser

[Alan M]

so , we just received from Amazon the bundle of turkey and chicken Turbo Trussers. WE purchased them because we like to rotisserie and hate trussing with string. I realize that Meathead is against rotisserie turkey because the trussing causes th legs to be too close to the beasts causing undercooking of the inner thighs or overcooking of the breasts.
However while string trussing causes the legs to be tightly adducts to each other if not overlapped, the turbo trusser actually has the legs lifted up and abducted.Hence, I don't think Meatheads criticism would apply here.
Does anyone have experience with the Turkey Turbo Trusser?

[jitsntricks]

I JUST bought one for my bird this year. I'll update with how it goes.
I'm going to be smoking the 18lb bird on a WSM 18".

[Waster]

Sado-masochism îs now fowl

[Huskee]

Looks like a good setup if you want to rotisserie! A wireless probe thermometer would be a great tool here as well to stop cooking when the breasts are ~5-10 under max temp to allow for carryover w/o overcooking.

[FireMan]

I like the sound, turbo trussin, yessir!

[jfmorris]

I've done quite a few rotisserie birds up to 20 pounds on my Weber kettle rotisserie, and didn't really have the issues Meathead describes. I didn't truss overly tight - just enough to keep wings and legs from flopping around during the spin. I like the idea of the turbo trusser, but not sure I want to spend the money. I've been on the same roll of butcher's twine for years...

Debating rotisserie or spatchcock this year. Guess I need to go get a turkey soon too!

[jfmorris]

Dang it Alan M !!! Why did you make me go order one of these Turbo Trussers! Like I need more grill stuff.... after watching the videos and seeing that it has a hole for the rotisserie spit to go through, I was sold. It will be here Monday, in plenty of time for the bird I am apparently now spinning rather than spatchcocking...

If it works really well, I'll be getting two for chickens, as I rarely do just one chicken at a time.

[Alan M]

i hate trussing which is why i got the turbo trusser. sometimes I do add a loop around the legs just in case.

[Troutman]

Spatchcock

[Bkhuna]

+1.

[jfmorris]

Agreed. But, I'm just doing the rotisserie to be different this year... I'll spatchcock the next one!

[Texas Larry]

I just got a set of Turbo Trussers (turkey and chicken). I usually spatchcock, but I’ll be spinning my turkey for the first time on a. Weber kettle with an Only Fire rotisserie. Gonna see how this setup works.

UPDATE—The Turbo Trusser I worked as advertised. Setup was easy, but pinning the wings took more effort than I expected. My. 14+lb bird came out beautifully, notwithstanding no pics🙄.

[Alan M]

so I had an interesting experience with the turkey rotisserie, and the turbo trusser. The
bird was16 pounds larger than I’ve ever cooked I cooked it on the Weber 22 inch grill using slow and seer for the charcoal and the only fire rotisserie, which can handle birds allegedly up to 20 pounds.

the turbo trusser worked perfectly. It’s stretched the legs apart so that unlike as meathead worries about cooking on a rotisserie the meat between the legs and the flank was cooked. I also added additional twine, tying around the legs and a loop around the chest, holding the wings in place, just in case, the wings came loose from the hook.

about an hour and a half with the bird looking beautiful and my Mester probe saying it was about 100° it stopped turning on the rotisserie. The motor was working the spit was turning what happened was that the forks loosened and no matter how I tried to tighten them wearing a glove it didn’t work . we prepared for this because the bird was so big and had the oven warmed and so after about an hour and a half we transferred the turkey to a pan put in the oven. My wife set the oven for 425, but I lowered it to 350 and when the meater went off I took the turkey out it looked beautiful. I carved it. It was the best turkey we ever had . Meanwhile, while the turkey had been moved to the indoor oven, I didn’t want the charcoal to waste and so I put chicken wings inside a only fire basket after about 45 minutes had the best chicken wings we ever had . last night after having difficulty falling asleep because the tryptophan from the turkey made me sleep in the early evening I was doing Google searches, and I found out that other people have had this problem of loosening screws on the rotisserie forks and they recommended not to hand tighten it, but to have pliers to tighten it well beyond hand tightening because with the heat the screws can loosen particularly given that there’s grease involved so I ordered a needle nose pliers just for my rotisserie from Amazon last night. This morning I chatted with only fire and they recommended also using the pliers so next time I make a big turkey, I’ll do it the same way and if I need to I’ll move it to the stove halfway through I will but hopefully I can make it all on the rotisserie.

[FireMan]

Here! Here! Best we ever had on two accounts!!!

[N227GB]

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