Today was a great day. Spent some time with the family and had some great food. This year, we decided to do 3 different turkeys. My grandma did her usual baked turkey, and I fried one and smoked one. I woke up at about 0430 and fired up the smoker (after an adequate amount of coffee of course lol) and got the wood doing. Unfortunately, I had whole logs and no ax. So I had to get my biggest framing hammer to split the wood. When all else fails, swing harder lol.
I put that turkey on at about 0730 when I got the temp stabilize and let her just sit there and smoke. I did have an issue with the smoker getting up to about 450ºf at one point when the wind changed directions, but that actually worked out well. At about 1130, I pulled it off the smoker and let it rest.
At that time, I had the other turkey seasoned and the oil heated so I dumped it in the oil. An hour later, it was done and time to eat.
So with 3 turkeys, I was curious to see what one would win out with everyone. The baked turkey has not even had the aluminum foil taken off of it. No one touched it.
The fried turkey has seen better days, but there is still a little left.
The smoked turkey, you will be lucky to find a single bit of meat left on it.
so all in all, the smoked turkey won out today. Everyone loves my fried turkey, but man, they KILLED the smoked turkey. I think I'm going to do a couple of them come christmas.
so all in all, it was a great day. Sadly, no flying for me since I don't have a Tx. But we did get out and toss around the baseball and football with everyone. That was fun and almost broke out into an all out tackle football game lmao. That would have been fun.
I hope all of you had as good of a time as I did. Quite honestly, I needed this. Some days off, great company and just all around having a good time.