Thanksgiving Turkey smoked in a ceramic kamado cooker.
barbecuing the thanksgiving turkey.
thanksgiving turkey smoking in kamado
Thanksgiving turkey every year is prepared on our ceramic smoker. This is very similar to the Big Green Egg that many people are familiar with but a different brand of kamado. The Grill-Dome kamado is the same type of ceramic smoker.
We can use the kamado for high heat grilling, high heat barbecuing like in a pizza ovenn, mid-heat barbeque and very low heat smoking. It is useful as a full range barbeque grill.
For Thanksgiving we always make a beer can turkey with a big foster’s beer can. I added our own bourbon-mollaisis rub to both the 23 lb thansgiving turkey and to the beer in the can. Half the beeer in the can is stuffed into the turkey which is cooked “standing up” inside the barbeque. The other half of the beer/rub is squirted on and in the turkey skin throughout the barbecue smoke.
my thanksgiving turkey smoking in ceramic kamado cooker barbecue.
We soaked the pecan chunks for about 30 hours and started at 7 am Thanksgiving morning at 225 degrees. Once the wood is fully saturated, the turkey rubbed and ready to smoke and the kamado smoking along at temperature there is really nothing else to do. For the next several hours we peeled and mashed potatoes, baked a cake and cookies with the children and took a nap. The turkey kept smoking.
By 5 pm we were eating and everyone loved the turkey. Moist and flavorful with a woody after taste. The perfect turkey is easy with a kamado barbeque.
