Recent content by Todd R

Thanks, yea after smelling that after it was washed and dried a few times I threw them in the backyard. Found my stainless steel deep frying pot and the bird is currently brining in that.

I wanted to try the apple brined turkey recipe this weekend and the only bucket I could get is a pickle bucket from a sub shop. I washed out couple times with soap and water but of course the odor still remains. Will the pickle odor greatly affect my final product? Should I wait until I get the...

Thanks all for comments! I was wondering that later, how the heck could my meat temps got up in that amount of time if the temps were that low? I'll check out my gauge tonight. I was using standard Kingsford (blue & white bag) I use a Polder digital meat thermometer. Guess I wasn't thinking a...

Hello, I did my first smoke this weekend with the 18", had fun and food tasted great but had trouble getting temps up. Please see timeline. It just seemed that whenever I looked in at the coals they were never super hot i.e. they had dark spots to them. Not sure if I fired enough at the begin...