Thanksgiving Turkeys: Thawing, Brining, Smoking & More!

HowToBBQRight

Malcom Reed

Arts, Leisure, Food

4.8 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

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Summary

In this week's HowToBBQRight Podcast, it's almost TURKEY TIME, y'all (00:26)! We're dropping some Thanksgiving Care Packages over on the 'Let's Get to Cookin' community (08:00)! When should you start buying your turkeys for Thanksgiving (08:40)? What's the best brand of turkey to buy (12:50)? The turkey may be the face of Thanksgiving, but the SIDES are where it's at (17:57)! Which is better: Stuffing or Dressing (21:05)? How many days do you need to thaw out your turkey (26:34)? I pick Malcom's brain about the do's and don'ts of brining a turkey (30:31). When and what should you inject your bird with this year (35:39)? Is it okay to stuff AND smoke a turkey (43:54)? How long should your turkey be left in the pit (49:54)? How long can you hold a turkey for, after you cook it (51:23)? Can you dry brine a turkey (54:54)? Finally, we close out with Malcom's final tips for you to make the BEST Thanksgiving turkey you can this holiday season (59:36)!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Malcolm Reed's How to Barbecue Right, a podcast where we talk about barbecue,
0:06.1	share recipes, and discuss all things delicious.
0:09.5	And now here's your host, Malcolm and Rochelle Reed.
0:12.6	Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast.
0:15.9	I'm your host, Malcolm Reed, joined by my lovely talented wife, Miss Southern Shell,
0:20.7	and we got Tyler over
0:22.1	on the board with us, and we're into November, y'all.
0:26.3	Turkey cooking time.
0:27.3	That's turkey time.
0:29.0	I start November really, really great because, you know, you cooked a few turkeys already.
0:36.1	Y'all know Thanksgiving.
0:40.4	That's my jam. I love it. I I mean it's all about it's all it's a holiday that's all about eating and being thankful for what you've
0:45.1	done this year and you get to see all your friends and family and hunting it's just a great time of
0:50.3	year egg bowl that we got the egg bowl it's. How awesome is football coming out of October, going into November. And, you know, I love it. It's just we've been to, we've been to several games. Yeah, we've gone to three football games. Yeah. College, one pro. Yep. Yeah, that's pretty good for us to squeeze in in our busy month.
1:13.6	But, give me another week of messing with turkeys and talking turkeys, and I'd be sick of them.
1:21.0	I'll tell you what, can I, before we get going, I got to give a big shout out to my buddy Kevin down at the butcher shop, Pensacola, Florida. Y'all know I get a lot of stuff from him. Well, he sent me a care package, I guess, for the holidays or just for, you know, being a cool guy, I guess. But anyway, he sent me two packages of the big turkey breast that I love. So when you... So when you say two, you mean a double pack?
1:44.7	Two double packages?
1:45.3	No.
1:46.0	Well, each one of them's got... Each turkey has two breasts. Oh, okay. That makes sense. So I've got two packages. So I've got four turkey breast. Quadruple. What's your... Um, I don't know. I may end up, I don't know if I'm going to do,
1:41.8	I know I'm cooking one of them for our Thanksgiving for the family
1:45.7	because my mom and dad. I don't know. I may end up, I don't know if I'm going to do, I know I'm cooking one of them for our
2:02.5	Thanksgiving for the family because my mom and dad and brother and sister-in-law, everybody loves
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