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The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

008b: Cooking Wild Turkey with Scott Leysath - The Sporting Chef

The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

Andy Gagliano

Hobbies, Wilderness, Leisure, Sports

4.6547 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, Scott Leysath shares with us tips for cooking wild turkey to perfection. Scott, the host of The Sporting Chef television show on The Sportsman Channel, shares recipes for cooking wild turkey, the ideal internal temperature of your wild turkey to ensure that it is cooked properly, and how to prepare your wild turkey for cooking or freezing. If you have some wild turkey in your freezer that you need to cook soon, then head over to Scott's website for some free wild turkey recipes. Also, don't forget to pick up a copy of Scott's venison cookbook on Amazon.  After you try a few of his recipes, you won't be disappointed.  Enjoy this week's episode, and be sure to tune in next week where Scott will share with us his favorite side dishes and adult beverages to serve with wild turkey, discuss the locavore trend that is sweeping the country currently, share the story of his most recent successful wild turkey hunt.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the turkey hunter podcast with me, your host, Andy Galliano.

0:19.5

In this podcast, I share with turkey hunters just like you

0:22.7

how to have more turkeys on your hunting property and how to have more successful turkey

0:27.2

hunts. I teach you how to do this with tips and interviews with turkey hunting pros,

0:32.6

wildlife management tips, and entertaining turkey hunting stories. Tune in weekly as I share proven and simple strategies to help you have more success this turkey season.

0:42.3

Make sure to head over to www. I am turkey hunting.com to subscribe to receive free turkey hunting tips, tactics, strategies, and product reviews. Also, please visit and like my

0:56.9

Facebook fan page. Go to Facebook and search I Am Turkey Hunting, and also feel free to post your

1:02.9

turkey hunting photos from this past season and let us know where and when you killed your bird.

1:07.4

For all of you Twitter users out there, please follow me on Twitter, where my handle is at Turkey Hitman, and I will be sure to follow you back.

1:15.9

And now, for this week's show.

1:20.1

Hello, and welcome back to this week's episode of the Turkey Hunter podcast.

1:25.3

This is part two of episode eight. My interview with Scott Laysath,

1:30.8

the sporting chef. In this part of the episode, Scott's going to give us some turkey recipes.

1:36.3

He's going to tell us what the perfect temperature is for that wild turkey that we're cooking.

1:41.4

He's also going to share with us how to cook legs and thighs so that

1:46.3

they're not so tough that you break your jaw trying to eat them. And in addition to that,

1:51.2

he's going to tell us how to prepare our wild turkey for cooking and for freezing. I know

1:56.6

I spend a lot of time cleaning the meat once I pull it from the breast of that turkey to get the blood and the feathers off of it.

2:04.9

So Scott's going to give us a good way to do that with as little amount of effort as possible.

2:09.6

You know, every once in a while when I'm doing this podcast, I have a few technical issues, and I actually did in this recording with Scott Laysath. And in this part of the

2:20.9

episode, we're going to lose audio a couple of different times. So bear with us during the pauses

2:26.9

that you're going to hear. And the recording will pick right up on the other side of the pause and

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