My bird went in the brine in the fridge Tues. night. Will take out tonight and dry over night for a first time turkey smoke at noon tomorrow. Forecast for cold and snow, should be interesting as it will be the first turkey smoke on the WSM. Hope the in-laws will be impressed!!!

Have 2 brining away in a cooler in the garage. I'll them out after dinner and they should be good to go for tomorrow!!

-Dave

Got a 12 pounder in apple brine, and just for grins, doing a 10 lb ham too (not in brine). Can't wait for tomorrow; it's still in the 80's here but tonight there's a front coming in and by tomorrow the temps will drop around 30*! I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.

Started the brine on a 13# turkey yesterday, comes out today at 5 pm for drying. Firing up the wsm at 0700 tomorrow.

Also doing a spiral cut ham after the turkey. Did the same thing last year and the ham was a big hit. Olive oil and "Mt Olympus Lamb and Poultry Rub" on the ham.

Had to do things different this year, so I'm hoping all turns out well. I can no longer stand and cook in the kitchen all day so this year I split my cooking up into 2 days. I made the sausage, portabella, potato bread sourdough bread dressing today, that's in the fridge to go into the oven tomorrow. I parboiled the Jersey Sweets and skined them they will get candied tomorrow. The turkey is in the brine so tomorrow morning all I have to do is fire up the WSM put the bird on and stick the dish with the dressing in the oven, and cut the sweets in half and candy them up. Make so mashed spuds and gravy and then it's lets eat time. Hope everyones meal turns out great tomorrow for them. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

I have a 14 pounder in the apple brine that I'll be taking out soon.

I also will be doing a taste test with two 4.5 lb breasts on the kettle. One will be brined the other just rubbed with butter and rub. I want to make sure that the brine is worth the hassle.

John

Took mine out of the brine at 4:30p today (about 28 hours total). In the fridge to dry until cook time tomorrow around 12p.

Ned..I'm in the same boat as you...this is my first turkey and the in-laws are coming...

Rob...7am? What time do you eat? I am a little concerned about what time to put mine in. It's almost 14lbs so I'm figuring 3 1/2 to 4 hours.

Kosher bird with herb paste under the skin cooked on the Weber Gensis rotisserie. First time using a kosher bird so I"m curious as to how it will turn out.

I just pulled mine from the alton brown brine and it is now sitting in the frig. I made cranberry jelly, creamed spinach and vegetable dip today and will reheat tomorrow.

Erik

I'm going to try the basic self basting recipe for the first time in the WSM. Still setting it up.

Check it out live:

Hoop and Caster Cam

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Check it out live:

Donald, Nice cam setup! I have family who lives in a other states so I've setup something similar for inside the house using 3 wireless cams that broadcast live images from the kitchen, family room and living room. I also have one aimed at the bar that is set for motion detection just in case the SO's 17 year old son gets in ideas It starts recording the moment someone walks in front of it and I can review the video from a home computer or the Internet . . . got to love technology.

I've often thought of getting a web cam with a dedicated web server (I think I'm using the right terminology here) and setting it up outside on the patio for smokes like today. Does your picture auto update or do we refresh? Great work!

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Larry,

I've been wondering what the "Baba Booey" sign off is all about. Figured it was a Utah thing.

Googled the phrase and came up with this website:

Baba Booey

Interesting.

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Googled the phrase and came up with this website:

Eric, you could call me a "super fan" of the Howard Stern program. I've been listening to him since the 80s. The phrase "Baba Booey" refers to his producer Gary Dell'Abate, AKA the horse-tooth Jacka$$. It's been a calling card of Stern fans for years; everything from being used in prank phone calls to very reputable news organizations to greetings between fans, "a Baba Booey to you." Childish we know but to us die hard Stern fans it's our "catch phrase."

There's a guy on this site Bill F. who used to write for Stern and had some pretty interesting insight into the program.

If you haven't caught him on Sirius Radio the show has never been better. Not because they can swear, but because they can speak as adults. May or may not be your thing but for us die hard fans the move has been great. Sirius also offers many other great music stations and other personalities ranging from Martha Stewart to Cousin Brucie. I highly recommend it. Today for Thanksgiving I have it on Christmas music all digital and commercial free!

Time to take my bird out of the fridge and ice the breast down!

A very warm BABA BOOEY to you and yours on this Thanksgiving Day!

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. . . got to love technology.

...always and forever

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I've often thought of getting a web cam with a dedicated web server (I think I'm using the right terminology here) and setting it up outside on the patio for smokes like today. Does your picture auto update or do we refresh? Great work!

The webcam I have, an Airlink 101 is running behind my network and the beauty of it it doesn't need a dedicated computer (or web server - it's essentially it's own web server) to run and it's cheap!

You gotta refresh, I could post a live motion url but it'd suck the life out of my meager home dsl connection.

Time to prep and season this 18 pounder; fire starts soon!

Hoop and Caster Cam

It's on.

All vents open, looks like it's settling in at around 315 degrees, it was a bit higher when the apple wood chunks were burning down. Does this sound right?

Hoop and Caster Cam

It's done.

All I can say is - thank you tvwbb, perfection.

Hope everybody had a great meal. My meal turned out fine. Turkey was good and moist, sweet taters were nice and candy coated, wifes green bean cassarole was good, but man o man I have to say that the dressing was over the top. Hands down the best I ever made. Now to write it down before I forget how I made it.

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Time to take my bird out of the fridge and ice the breast down!

A very warm BABA BOOEY to you and yours on this Thanksgiving Day!

Thanks for the heads up. I don't know that any station carries the HS show in AK. I've seen the show on cable late at night and have found it humorous. I've heard mixed reviews on the quality of the satellite radio reception in AK. What I've heard is that the angle is so low to the horizon the reception can be very susceptible to interference. I've been thinking about getting a receiver and subscription as a gift to my wife. Primarily so she can hear the Martha show. Maybe I just need to take the leap and see if it works - at least well enough.

How did the bird on the rotis come out? Mine went well. Hit 160+ in the thigh, 155+ in the breast, pulled and foiled,wrapped in a towel and rested in a cooler for a little over an hour. Thigh was perfect, breast was tender but slightly dry. I forgot to take a breast temp before I carved but I know it stayed very hot in the cooler. Hot to touch when I pulled it out.

How did your technique of icing the breast work? How do you do it?