New way (for me) to cook a turkey.....and Ham

Magicman · November 29, 2009, 10:22:59 PM

At the Mississippi Forestry Ass'n annual meeting I bidded for and bought a smoker. I paid too much :'( but it was for a good cause

. Anyway, I fired it up Thanksgiving AM. It has charcoal towers in each corner which distributes the heat all of the way around. Each tower held 12 brickets, and lasted surprisingly for the 3 hours it took to cook the turkey.
The cooker

Open showing the four cooking towers

The turkey seasoned and injected with Wishbone Italian Dressing

Down into the smoker he went

3 hours later

Yup, just right

When I lifted him out of the basket, the wings pulled off

Tom · November 29, 2009, 11:03:12 PM

looks pretty danged good.

DanG · November 29, 2009, 11:34:16 PM

DanG right that looks good! Thats a pretty spiffy looking cooker too. Can't say I ever saw one quite like that.

Jeff · November 29, 2009, 11:34:44 PM

I'd eat it.

Tom · November 29, 2009, 11:38:29 PM

Those triangular tubes of screen, that he puts the charcoal into, would get caught in your teeth, Jeff. :P

submarinesailor · November 30, 2009, 08:27:29 AM

Quote from: Jeff on November 29, 2009, 11:34:44 PM
I'd eat it.

Even if it was stuffed with GRITS?

Bruce

Magicman · November 30, 2009, 10:14:43 AM

Quote from: submarinesailor on November 30, 2009, 08:27:29 AM
Even if it was stuffed with GRITS?
Bruce

You can eat anything that stuffed with grits....especially yellow grits......

treecyclers · November 30, 2009, 04:51:51 PM

Quote from: Magicman on November 30, 2009, 10:14:43 AM

You can eat anything that stuffed with grits....especially yellow grits......

I thought you weren't s'posta eat yellow ~~snow~~ grits

Tom · November 30, 2009, 05:07:37 PM

eau contraire, mon ami. You're supposed to eat lots of yellow grits. You're not supposed to be where there is yellow snow. :D

rickywashere · November 30, 2009, 06:44:04 PM

looks great and for the record white snow play yellow snow stay away!!!!!!

Magicman · November 30, 2009, 08:23:57 PM

Yellow grits are getting hard to find.....I think that they are making ~~whiskey~~ ethanol out of the yellow corn..... :(

mad dog · December 01, 2009, 09:15:47 PM

What is the brand? looks like a good cooker.

Magicman · December 01, 2009, 09:57:18 PM

Quote from: mad dog on December 01, 2009, 09:15:47 PM
What is the brand? looks like a good cooker.

The only name on it is "Backyard Classic"...... :(

WDH · December 01, 2009, 10:00:49 PM

Wow, that looks tasty!

DanG · December 01, 2009, 10:15:22 PM

Magic, look for Lakeside brand grits. They are in a bright yellow package, and I've only seen them in a 2 pound size. They are yellow grits, and are the best grits I have ever found, hands down!

Magicman · December 01, 2009, 10:34:31 PM

DanG, that sounds like what we use. We used Quaker until they quit making yellow grits. I found that yellow package in our Piggly Wiggly. The DW pours in into a Tupperware container and keeps it in the frig. They're a little coarser ground, but I like them better than Quaker.

WDH · December 01, 2009, 11:04:18 PM

The stone ground grits from Pine Mountain, GA are mightly fine as well.

OK, where are the Grits Bashers ???.

Don K · December 02, 2009, 02:05:11 AM

They have given up, as they are on a pointless crusade anyway. ;D

Don

mad dog · December 02, 2009, 07:45:32 AM

Quote from: Magicman on December 01, 2009, 09:57:18 PM
Quote from: mad dog on December 01, 2009, 09:15:47 PM
What is the brand? looks like a good cooker.

The only name on it is "Backyard Classic"...... :( Thanks,I am going to look them up

Magicman · December 02, 2009, 02:57:15 PM

mad dog, I'm afraid that you are not going to have much luck. This is a Backyard Classic Smoke Cube. The company is an importer; Rankam VDG Industries LTD, 1710 Douglas Dr. N. Suite 175, Golden Valley, MN. 55422, 866-561-0731.

I bought this one at an auction, which means that it was donated. The box had a Walmart sticker on it. I suspect that Walmart was cleaning out grilling stuff getting ready for Christmas, and either sold it cheap or donated it.

And that's everything that I know.....

Magicman · December 02, 2009, 02:58:58 PM

Quote from: Magicman on December 02, 2009, 02:57:15 PM
mad dog, I'm afraid that you are not going to have much luck. This is a Backyard Classic Smoke Cube. The company is an importer; Rankam VDG Industries LTD, 1710 Douglas Dr. N. Suite 175, Golden Valley, MN. 55422, 866-561-0731.

I bought this one at an auction, which means that it was donated. The box had a Walmart sticker on it. I suspect that Walmart was cleaning out grilling stuff getting ready for Christmas, and either sold it cheap or donated it.

And that's everything that I know....

And now I've clicked the wrong thing and don't know how to delete this post.... :-[

Paul_H · December 02, 2009, 03:18:01 PM

The delete button is in the top right hand of your post.It's beside the quote button.
We have a recycling section where all the deleted posts are broken down and the letters are reused in other posts.Numbers are too but sometimes come out as @ or #<! etc.

It's supposed to be Chet's job but he;s been slacking lately.

Magicman · December 02, 2009, 05:33:51 PM

On this forum, I only have "quote" and "modify" buttons?

Maybe Jeff has it fixed that way on here so that if you "cooks" it you gots to "eats" it...... digin_2

Tom · December 02, 2009, 08:35:00 PM

I think I finally have figured out why the Yanks don't eat ~~much~~ Grits.

I was looking for a mill just north of me, a family member of the owner is a member here, and I can't find it.
But, in the process, I found a site in Boston (Bahstun) that had this little blurb at the bottom.

Anson Mills grits are available for $8.95 a pound at Formaggio Kitchen, 244 Huron Ave., Cambridge

Sheesh! For 8.95 a pound, I might be wondering what they were too. :-\
Are they being saved for the elite up there, or is this some kind of social engineering program? :-\