Orion Turkey


 
Marty Owens

Marty Owens

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So I have had this Orion Cooker a for a while and all I have used it for is ribs a few times and they taste ok but nothing compared to off a pellet grill or a Weber kettle, but it will do 3 slabs of ribs in 90 minutes (in the summer).

Now I have always heard how great a turkey is from an Orion and had to give it a try. Started out by putting the 10 lb. turkey in Mad Hunky Poultry Brine that was planned to be an 8 hour brine but North Dakota weather switched my plans and it ended up being a 32 hour brine.


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Now here is the turkey on the Orion poultry stand rubbed with Simply Marvelous Season All.


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The Orion Cooker is designed to add smoke taste if you choose to add wood chips around the drip pan, instead I thought I would try 2 hand fulls of pecan pellets.


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Here is the turkey loaded in the Orion.


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Here is the Orion with the coals lit.


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Orion cooks by time, not temp; and Orion suggest 7 minutes per pound for turkey. Well, North Dakota winter temps seemed to not work well with Orion's directions cause at 70 minutes this turkey needed more cooking time. Ended up going an hour 45 minutes which still is not that bad to cook a turkey in freezing temps! Here is the turkey when I pulled it.


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Check out the juices!


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Turkey, dressing and mixed veggies!


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I really like this turkey; great taste, the brine and seasoning made it moist and delicious... and most surprising was the smoke flavor, it really had a deep pecan smoke flavor. I like the Orion for cook time and flavor, but I will say with this style of cooking the turkey skin was terrible.

Thanks for looking!
 
Great looking turkey!! I have an Orion cooker too but haven't used it for a couple of years now. Chicken wings are really good in it too if you can get past the rubbery skin. I wonder if putting the wings on a grill would help the skin to dry out. I also used to like to make PP on it too.
 
Seeing your post makes me realize that the turkey holder for my turkey fryer would work great in the WSM for "beer can Turkey".
NIce looking bird.
 
That's pretty cool. At first glance, I thought this was onion turkey. I've never heard of Orion either, but it looks like a jet engine fell off a plane and landed in your WSM.
 
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