How do you cook your turkey?

Anything other than deep fried is dry and nasty. But how do yall do it?

In the oven. No use taking a healthy food and dunking it in grease.

I tried something new last year. I replaced the chlorine tabs in my chlorinator with crab boil packages, and souse vided it in my hot tub for 3 days. Them I wrapped it up tight in aluminum foil, and finished it on the grill at 650-700 for 16 minutes on each side. Perfect.

Deep fried

For several years season, bacon wrap and smoked on a Brinkman turkey breast - yes usually dry but every now and then just right. Gonna use the new Traeger this year and see how that goes.

IDK, I'm gonna have to ask my MIL

Agreed Moto, it’s the only way to do it.

I guess healthy is good even if it tastes like dried pooh

Brined, rubbed and big easy oil less fryer

Going to smoke one. May inject with some good wholesome butter.

Injected and cooked on the Big Easy. This year, I’m cooking a boneless breast and a several turkey legs.

Jimmy

This year we are cooking a turducken from Heberts specialty meats. Usually I bake a turkey using Alton Browns recipe for brined turkey. Always turns out good. Fried turkey is excellent and not greasy.

Thats my plan this year also

We just started buying boneless turkey breasts a several years ago and smoking them. We use the turkey rub from Rudy's BBQ. We get several and they get devoured. Its become a tradition now.

Roast traditional with stuffing......our turkeys are undoubtedly the best there is and ever was

This

Its thanksgiving, cook a turkey in the oven.

4th July, fry a turkey, just don’t let your dumb [censored] bro inlaw trip and light up the patio up with hot grease.

Fried just like Baby Jesus intended!


4 minutes per pound at 325-350 degrees!

Turducken from Heberts is legit! You won't regret that decision.

In your girlfriend's oven

Smoked

Very nice.

I’ve smoked mine after brining. I’ve enjoyed them. Fried is my favorite, though. Oven baked least favorite but edible if brined. I want to try brine, spatchcock and smoked.

Well Greensburg is out so we will figure it out I guess,

I don’t like turkey, but everyone else around me does. I am going to brine, then smoke ours this year.

This is the best.

Oven

fried in the oilless big easy for dad's house, but the inlaws are from NY so they still oven bake with [censored] shoved up it's rear. It's dry and gross. Most years I take a fried one over there and it gets eaten more than the smoked, but I don't dive a dam this year so they are on their own.

Ours will be brinded and oven baked . If you do it this way and it comes out dry and yuckie you did something very wrong . Happy Thanksgiving to all .

I still use the Big Easy cooker, and it tastes like fried but is not dry.

Perfect results every time.
I’ve been putting a half drunk Fosters can with the top cut off so I can stuff the can with rosemary, apple, cinnamon, cloves, in the cavity large beer can Turkey style in the Big Easy.

I pick up a smoked Turkey from Costco. Let it thaw out and cook like 20 minutes per lb.

Outstanding Turkey and I am not a fan of turkey

Costco also sells a large dish of mash potatoes that you bring home and cook, and it's outstanding

We also pick up a large dish of dressing and some deserts from Costco and have zero prep other than cooking and eating and it's one of the best Turkey Dinners I have had

Remove from packaging, put in pan, roast til done. Always moist and delicious

Been doing this for over 15 years now . I smoke all our employees turkeys every year . This year I am doing 8 of them . Just plain and simple but always turn out so good . Use my own home made rub on them the night before and cover them up in foil in the fridge . put them in the smoker using pecan till they get the perfict color . Then wrap them in foil again till they are done .

Smoked from smoking windmill bbq in Aurora

Pop that bird with as much Tony’s as it will take . Then sprinkle Tony’s on it . Let it set in the cooler for a bit then off to the grease it goes

Brine it overnight and smoke it on the egg. Nice and juicy.

Same. What flavor wood do you prefer?

Deep fried, great taste and an element of danger. That's tough to beat. I am interested in this big easy oil less fryer ya'll are speaking of.

A chunk or two of pecan.

On the Weber kettle. Turns out perfect every time.

Big Easy - looks like fried. Tastes like fried. Faster than frying in oil and the rub stays on the bird and doesn't float off like in oil.

Bonus - almost zero risk of burning your house down!

First, I choose one that looks exactly like a Choice or Prime brisket, then I smoke it for 12 to 14 hours with a rub.
Comes out perfect every time!

I have learned to only brine for 8 hours otherwise the breast meat will be mushy, I brine on Tuesday and then put in refrigerator uncovered until Thursday morning, I rub down with olive oil and favorite seasonings, put on the Primo grill at 325 degrees, cook until the thigh is 170 degrees, about two and a half hours, let rest for a few minutes and it is ready, by far the best turkey i have ever had. I buy a 12-14 pound fresh free range bird from Sprouts.

Brine in Bird Bath then smoke on the egg.

If that’s what you got then somebody didn’t know what they were doing.

Edit: I miss read your original posting. Fried is good. Orange is bad....

I season the outside with oil and some Tony's then smoke over charcoal with apple wood.

Our landlord has sent us one every year we’ve been renting from him. Not this year. They were good turkeys. Gonna miss it.

Popeyes Cajun turkey. $39.99

^^^ Good choice.