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olivesmoker

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OK so 3 of us are now doing this recipe for Thanksgiving, one of my teamies is about an hour ahead of us so is probably at the brining stage. We are waiting for the brine to cool right now. Smells awesome and we are taking pics along the way. Still Bear, a couple of questions about wrapping the bird. Do you just use one package of cheesecloth? Do you just wad it up in the melted butter or try to place it in folded upon itself? Once the butter has soaked in, does it just drip all over the place while wrapping? Or does the butter pretty much stay adhered to the cloth? Do you wrap the bird say one direction and then twist it and go the opposite direction, so that all four exposed areas of the bird are covered like a mummy?
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#16 - November 23, 2009, 10:13:15 pm
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Got my cheesecloth at Walmart in the paint department. 2 square yards should be enough. Soak it in butter and wrap ... this is gonna be my best one yet... yums.
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Do you take the Cheesecloth off at any point or leave it on until the Turkey is done?
#18 - November 24, 2009, 12:49:22 pm
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well i have never done this cheesecloth turkey either. so i went a looking for some info. seems that everything points to just laying the cheesecloth on the turkey as opposed to wrapping the turkey completely. also, the recipes i read state that removing the cloth is a good thing for the last 1/2 hr or so.


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Got 2 turkeys today. Doing the brine tonight. I cant wait to do this.
#20 - November 24, 2009, 01:29:21 pm
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I use one pack of cheesecloth. Once the butter is soaked up, let it cool. this way the butter stays on the cloth better. It will drip and be a bit messy...not too bad. I just take straight out of the pack and plop it in the butter..wadded, folded, shouldn't matter as long as it is well soaked. When wrapping, I just start with the end over the head side cavity, wrap under a wing and go back on a diagonal so the cloth doesn't slide off the top. Then just wrap from one end to the other overlapping a lil bit, till the whole thing is covered. Will see if cindy has pics saved on her puter or disk and post em for ya. My hard drive that had the pics fried...may have em posted somewhere..will look.
 I take off the cloth for the last hour.
#21 - November 25, 2009, 05:39:37 am
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Thanks Bear...  ;)
#22 - November 25, 2009, 05:50:45 am
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Last year I did the cheesecloth method as Bear describes, but I also basted it with herb butter every hour or so to remoisten the cheesecloth.  Wondering now if that has any effect on the browning of the skin, mine was a ittle lighter than I like it.  I did remove the cheesecloth the last hour...
#23 - November 25, 2009, 06:06:39 am
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Thanks for all the info. We have pics of our brine and the bird in the brine. Will take some during smoking and finished product, then will post post-Thanksgiving! Can't wait! The house was filled with a wonderful aroma during the simmering of the brine, really makes it feel like the holidays with the cloves and all the herbs and citrus...
#24 - November 25, 2009, 11:17:12 am
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I can't wait to see all the pictures! Yum!! ;D ;D
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#26 - November 25, 2009, 12:33:46 pm

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I have a twenty pounder that I will wrap in cheese cloth and then smoke. Using the turkey cannon any idea how may minutes per pound estimated????? Just need something to guesstimate when to put it on.
#27 - November 25, 2009, 01:36:18 pm
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What's a turkey cannon and what temp are you planning on keeping the smoker?
#28 - November 25, 2009, 04:45:12 pm
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It's kind of like beer in the butt chicken holder except it holds the turkey horizontal. I am going to try 250 to 275 until it hits 150 then take off the cheese cloth an run it up to 300 degrees until the turkey hits 160 to brown skin. :-\
#29 - November 25, 2009, 04:58:21 pm
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olivesmoker

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Your smoking temps seem just right, we are planning to do exactly the same thing...not really a time per pound, but figure about 6 hours for our 18 ponder, that's about 20 min per pound. First time doing the 48 hour brine thing so we'll see how it goes...
#30 - November 25, 2009, 08:59:08 pm
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