Thanksgiving Turkey: Spatchcocked & Smoke-Roasted

See how to make an awesome turkey and gravy for Thanksgiving. Spatchcocking is a great way to cook poultry. It greatly reduces the cooking time and cooks the white and dark meat more evenly than trying to cook a whole bird the traditional way.

The additional cooking technique of smoke-roasting gives it a nice smoky aroma and flavor while the fresh herb butter rub adds its own layer of deliciousness.

This bird is also incredibly juicy due to cooking it in a ceramic kamado which requires no brining, basting, or injection liquids due to inherit advantages of using a ceramic grill/smoker. (Ceramic cookers provide a moist cooking environment and do not dry out food.)

I also show how to collect the drippings and make an awesome gravy from them using a roux to thicken it.

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[billruprecht]

Looking forward to trying this method on my Weber kettle. Thanks for the video!

[centwood]

Is this how chiropractors practice with adjustments. 😁 nice video! I need to finally try doing Turkey this way

[BabyBackManiac]

Love the new "set" in garage/man cave.. Very cool!

Yeah, this video was definitely better than last year. (I liked that one too though.) Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

[nated]

Larry, this looks amazing! Can't wait to give it a try! Thanks for all of your videos! You truly taught me how to do kamado style smoking! Happy thanksgiving

[fatboy]

Found this from KamadoGuru.com... Awesome stuff! We have an 11lb "test" turkey for me. Very glad you have the BigJoe, as that's what I have, and also very cool that you too are a homebrewer!!! I think we'll get along just fine :)

Thanks and I hope to use your video as a tutorial this week.

[johnmal]

Good video Larry.. I'm getting ready to do a spatchcock turkey about the same size that you done in the video. by some chance would you have an idea about how wide the bird was after splitting it? I'm doing mine on a WSM 18.5 smoker and was wondering if it would fit in the smoker or be to wide?? Happy Thanksgiving to you and brother and families..

[timschrock]

Hey Larry! I've subscribed :) I received an Acorn Kamado Kooker for Christmas, so I'm excited to use mine and follow along smoking with your videos. Do you soak your apple wood chips before smoking? And do you brine your turkey at all?

[boatbuilder]

This was great Larry I am glad I caught this just in time for this coming Thursday
Happy T-Day 2018
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