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Richardj
Moderator
Post Number: 357
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 7:23 pm:
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Announcing our 2nd annual Thanksgiving Turkey Contest. We will have three prizes. First prize will be a #5 Mosaic, second prize will be a #3 Mosaic and the third prize will be a #1 Mosaic. All will have stainless steel bands and grills. The winners can pick up their Kamados at our Sacramento Factory or shipped collect to any destination of their choice. Delivery will be after the first of the year.
The winners will be judged upon the following:
1. Your description in which you narrate, analyze and describe fully from beginning to end your special turkey.
a. Size and kind of turkey
b. Recipe
c. Preparation.
d. Details of the Cook on the Kamado. Including set-up, temperatures, controls, time and other unique information.
e. Serving.
2. Photographs (digital or other). Minimum of 5 pictures that visually show your technique and skill through preparation and cooking to the final table display.
Winners must be willing to allow the Kamado Corporation to publish (plagiarize, that is) the winner’s description and pictures on our website and cookbook.
Good luck
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Harry
Member
Post Number: 403
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 8:15 pm:
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C'mon, Richard. This cuts out Canadians who've "been there, done that" a few weeks before. Either Switch to Chrismas Turkey, or anounce several weeks earlier, eh.
Harry |
Henry
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Post Number: 142
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 9:21 pm:
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when is the cutoff date for photo submissions? |
Glenn
Member
Post Number: 119
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 8:50 am:
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Well,
I guess since it's the SECOND annual, you knew it happened last year?
What about our Brit friends? Do they have turkey for Thanksgiving? How about our Japanese friends (home of the Kamado), can they do a BBQ tuna? What about us poor folks who are tired of turkey and want a rib roast for Christmas.
I am not very organized (about this kind of stuff) so even though I will be cooking a turkey, I am not sure that I will get around to putting it all together.
I would, however, like to thank Richard and crew for their generosity. I think that it's fun to have contests, we should have more...how about a baking contest or a dessert contest?
Glenn |
Joy
Member
Post Number: 30
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 08, 2002 - 12:05 pm:
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Your right Glenn,
Not only do we not have turkey for Thanksgiving - we don't have Thanksgiving. (Well we do in our own way - mine is for finding out about kamados to start with and then buying one!)
The other problem in England is no one sells turkeys much at this time of year! I'll have to order one especially for next year and start saving my pennies for shipping in case I manage to win anything. (unlikely!)
BTW at the risk of sounding too ignorant - what date is thanksgiving?
Joy |
Glenn
Member
Post Number: 120
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 08, 2002 - 12:38 pm:
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Hi Joy,
Thanksgiving is on the 28th of November. The date changes from year to year however, it is the last thursday in November. Canada is a little earlier,must be that French influence ;) Strange that turkeys are hard to come by in the U.K. It is my understanding that they came to England from the Americas, by way of Turkey, hence the name "turkey bird". My understanding is that at that time the only big bird on anyones table was a Swan and, if it wasn't the queens table, you could lose your head! There are turkey ranches near where I live, that produce millions of turkeys each year. The chicks (what do you call a newborn turkey?) are hatched and then moved to another part of California to be raised. At Thanksgiving, around here, you can buy a 24 pound turkey for about 7 dollars.
Glenn |
Beesquare
Associate Member
Post Number: 16
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 11:04 am:
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In Canada, Thanksgiving has been proclaimed in the past for many reasons and during many different months of the year....for reasons as varied as; to celebrate the recovery of The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) from a serious illness (April 15, 1872), to glorious victories over our enemies (April 21, 1814..we were at war with the United States at the time), to the restoration of peace with Russia (June 4, 1856). One year it was even moved because of a general election on the day that had been originally scheduled for thanksgiving (1935). We now celebrate it on the second Monday of October then hunker down for winter (except Harry who tends his Kamado during blizzards). |
Harry
Member
Post Number: 405
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 1:09 pm:
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It's cold job, but it beats parboiled ribs, eh 
Harry |
Dub
Member
Post Number: 71
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 6:40 pm:
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Glenn-
Newly hatched turkeys are called 'poults'
Newly hatched chickens are 'chicks' and baby peafowl are also called'chicks'
Ducks hatch 'ducklings'
Geese hatch 'goslings'
Young guinea fowl are called 'keets'
Swans hatch 'cygnets'
Pigeons hatch 'squabs'
dub(end ornithology 101 lecture)
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Husker
Member
Post Number: 52
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 8:15 pm:
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Dub,
What about pheasants?
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Guillermo
Member
Post Number: 104
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 8:37 pm:
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Hunker down for winter? Not me! Only hail stops me from grilling or Q'ing. For winter, I just pull the cooker within 5 feet from the back door of the house. This will be my first winter with a Kamado and I know things will be much easier with it, already got well over 200lbs of maple leaf lump to burn!
Guillermo |
Dub
Member
Post Number: 72
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 11, 2002 - 2:44 am:
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Husk-
Young pheasants are known as 'appetizers'
dub(squawk!) |
Big_o
New member
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, November 11, 2002 - 1:59 pm:
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Richard, We need information on when and how to register. Do we post through the Forum? Can we mail pictures and descriptions to your US mail? When is the deadline? Thanks. |
Boiseguy
Associate Member
Post Number: 11
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 30, 2002 - 2:18 pm:
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My entry in the recipe/photo contest is fairly extensive, so I've placed it on my website. You'll find it at the following URL. The link opens in a new window.
http://www.webpak.net/~rescyou/turkey/turkey.htm
Hope you all find it interesting and useful. I welcome any comments about the recipe, the description, or my ham-handed HTML. |
Henry
Member
Post Number: 146
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 1:47 pm:
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Ok, I screwed up, I posted to the wrong thread. I put it on last years... so heres the correct link.
If possible, can you move it here Alan Z.?
Thanks
Henry
http://www.kamado.com/discus/messages/1/534.html?1038709277#POST9352 |
Henry
Member
Post Number: 145
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 10:51 pm:
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Here is my entry for the Kamado Turkey Contest...
I Cooked up two turkeys, one on the Kamado, and one Deep Fried.
both were 12lb birds, Frozen, Thawed and Injected with a "Homemade" solution ( see below )and put into the refrig. to marinade for 12 hours.
NOTE: no birds were brined!!!
both were cooked at aprox. 350' F.
The Kamado bird took 3hrs. the Fried took 45min. pics below....
Here is the raw birds, Notice the Needle poking out of the bird!Ouch! :{)
Here is a pic of the Fried turkey.....
Here is a pic of the Kamado turkey just before being pulled.
Here is a comparison of both birds. the Darker bird is the Fried bird.
The results of taste tests (12 inlaws) were that the non brined Kamado turkey was better tasting than the Deep Fried one. the meat was moist, and the flavor very good.
Heres the recipe for the injectable solution...
2 TBSP. Worcestershire sauce
1 TBSP. Zatarans Concentrated Crab and Shrimp boil
1/4 Cup Apple cider
3/4 Cup Honey
1 (120z) Beer (I use abita amber)
1 TBSP. kosher salt
1 TBSP. ground allspice
1/2 Cup Creole seasoning
1/4 tsp. ground Cayenne
Mix all ingredients in blender for 5 min. and inject into Birds.
note: this is enough for 2 turkeys.
Thank you Kamado,
I hope you enjoy it!
Henry in Gulfport, Mississippi
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Boiseguy
Associate Member
Post Number: 12
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 30, 2002 - 2:22 pm:
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I don't want my contest entry to be overlooked, so I'm posting this message in this thread and in the thread Richard started when he announced the contest.
My entry in the recipe/photo contest is fairly extensive, so I've placed it on my website. You'll find it at the following URL. The link opens in a new window.
http://www.webpak.net/~rescyou/turkey/turkey.htm
Hope you all find it interesting and useful. I welcome any comments about the recipe, the description, or my ham-handed HTML.
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Labenson
New member
Post Number: 4
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, November 30, 2002 - 6:21 pm:
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Kevin (Boiseguy),
Great entry for the contest. Very Thorough. I'm sure it will be hard to beat.
One thing, the photo for Step Three does not show. Looking at the properties, it is referencing a file on the C Drive. You might want to correct that.
Lars
(Message edited by labenson on November 30, 2002) |
Alanz
Moderator
Post Number: 420
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 5:19 pm:
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I renamed last year's topic and this message thread to reflect the year of the contest. I moved posts from Henry, Boiseguy and Lagenson into this thread and locked the old thread. |
Henry
Member
Post Number: 147
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 8:18 pm:
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Thanks Alan, I would be lost in the back archives without you!
:{)
Henry |
Dms
New member
Post Number: 1
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 8:41 pm:
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Hi all! We received our K a few months ago, and we decided to smoke our turkey this year. While lurking, I saw that there's a contest going on. That was good enough reason to register and post :^) I hope this link qualifies as entry into the contest:
DMS Thanksgiving Entry
dave |
Bobinfla
Member
Post Number: 156
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 10:15 pm:
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The family is changing our schedule for Thanksgiving. The only thing that is remaining constant is that I am providing the turkey. I'll have to smoke it on Wednesday, so I started brining it on Tuesday.
The turkey was a 12 pound "Fresh frozen, contains no artificial ingredients and is not more than minimally processed."
Bucket wouldn't fit in the refrigerator, so I put it in a cooler with 15# of ice. Temperatures were *not* the Canadian type, so it was cooler inside with the air conditioner running.
 
1 qt of water
about 1/2 cup Kosher salt
boil water 'til most of salt is dissolved
about 1/4 cup Morton's Tender Quick
stir 'til you can't dissolve any more
add 1/2 gallon water and stir
most of the solids are dissolved, but it's still too warm
add ice to make slightly more than 1 gallon liquid
add juice from 6 large oranges and the orange peels and pulp
add juice from 2 lemons and the pulp and peels
add juice from 3 limes (fresh from the tree) and the peels and the pulp
add 1 chopped red onion
about 5 cloves of crushed garlic
"this much looks good" chipotle powder (2 Tbs?)
grind in black pepper 'til it pretty much covers the top of the liquid
pour it over the turkey in the bucket
figured about right, it covers the turkey by about 3/4 inch
 
I found these chunks of Lump in the top of my bin. I think that they will make a nice bed of coals to cook the turkey. In the first picture, that is a quarter on the charcoal.
 
The drip pan I was going to use got punctured, so I had to modify another to fit on the lower bracket. I have a steel plate on the lower bracket as a heat deflector.
 
I think I'm ready for the turkey!
 
 
To continue the citrus theme, I stuffed the turkey with oranges, cut into eighths, lemons and limes, quartered, minced garlic, and chopped red onions. Next, I rubbed the skin with olive oil and put it on a turkey stand.
 
Nice smoke coming out of the damper. The temperature was 400*F for the first 45 minutes, then lowered to 300*F for another 45 min. Then it went down to 250 while I was on the phone, but the thermometer said the internal temp was about 145, so I just left it alone until it reached 152.
Opened the top and look what I found in there:
 
 
The skin was nice and crisp, on the right side of you can see that it split a bit. In the third picture, you can see the beginnings for the gravy.
 
After letting the turkey rest for about half an hour, I started to slice it just for a taste. The meat just fell apart. The wings and legs fell off, and fell apart. A knife was useless, so I just used two forks and pulled it off like pulling pork. It was the juciest turkey I have ever eaten.
 
The dark meat tasted sort of like ham, probably the Tender Quick had a little to do with that. The smoke flavoring was just about right, not too strong, but definitely there.
The problem with smoking a turkey on a Kamado is that there are no leftovers. I'll have to remember this for next time, and will probably smoke 2. The 12 pound turkey is about the right size for a K5, but 16 to 18 would probably work just as well.
(Message edited by bobinfla on December 01, 2002) |
Banjodave
New member
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 8:07 am:
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Man, just look at all these fine K'ed turkeys. It's a real pleasure reading about (and seeing) these turkey cooking techniques. A big thanks to you folks for going to this trouble. My K hasn't arrived yet but I'm smartening up on K cooking by these. Good luck all in the contest.
Dave |
Bonnies
Member
Post Number: 170
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 8:41 pm:
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Hi! Finally got the pics back and scanned them. Here's my entry in the best use of space catagory.
Plan B Turkey.
Plan A was to smoke the Thanksgiving turkey on the meat hanger with one or two stainless steel S hooks to provide the needed length. Murphy was living at my house, Thanksgiving Day!
While letting my youngest daughter pick the turkey didn't seem like a challenge, it turned out that way! The bird weighed in at 16.44lbs. My largest K is a #3, so the fit was tight, even though my daughter gave it the 'hug' test and declared it skinny enough. I tested things out with the bird still frozen; good thing too. It was skinny enough, but it ended up being too long to hang in the grill -- the K3 wouldn't close! So onto plan B.
After thawing in the frig for several days, I put the bird in a brine made of 2T Lemon Pepper mix and 1T garlic powder. Because the bird already had 'water' added, I left out the salt I would usually add to poultry brine. The whole thing, went back into the frig for 24 hours.
At 5am on T-Day, I fired up the K. I'm using Cripple Creek lump right now. My fire setup in the #3 includes a lumpsaver+ sitting on the opening where the fire grate should be (I've removed it for better air flow). I filled the lumpsaver + and surrounded it with smaller chunks of lump. After the fire was going to coals, I put the lower bracket in. The grid in the picture below is the grill from my #1. It's a perfect fit.
While the grill was coming up to cooking speed, I tested out the bird arrangement. Below is a shot of the turkey, stuffed with a large onion, sitting in the roasting rack above a Pampered Chef baking dish, I intended to use to catch drippings for gravey and the lower rack. All fit, so I knew the bird would fit the grill. Unfortuneately in actual practice, the PC baking dish cracked in two as soon as I put the Roaster in it, so I used a double strength foil wrapped around the bottom to the roaster rack to shield the bird.
Just to prove a 16lb+ bird will fit in a #3.
Cooked without basting at 375ish for 5 hours. Only interruption was to unload the bird and reload the lumpsaver + about halfway through the cook. Here's the finished and ready to come off the grill shot. The internal temp was 170 at the breast. I took the popout timer out of the turkey and used that spot for my remote.
I let the bird rest in a warm oven (200ish) for an hour, while I got the other fixin's underway. Then I took it out. Here's the final picture prior to taking the meat off the bone to serve, buffet-style.
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Bonnies
Member
Post Number: 171
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 9:11 pm:
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One other thing. I rubbed the bird down liberally with olive oil, prior to cooking. The skin came out crisp. The meat was tinted pink from the smoke and was absolutely wonderful. The legs and wings fell off the bird and the breast was tender, but firm enough to slice. I think I want some leftovers..... |
Boiseguy
Associate Member
Post Number: 16
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 9:45 pm:
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Richard, when does this contest end? It's been over a week since the last entry was posted. |
Deborah
Moderator
Post Number: 38
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 13, 2002 - 12:40 pm:
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Boiseguy, the contest ends after Christmas (so holiday turkeys are included. We receive entry by email all the time. |
Bobinfla
Member
Post Number: 171
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 13, 2002 - 2:59 pm:
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But Deborah,
The subject line reads "Thanksgiving 2002 Turkey Contest"
Did Christmas become part of Thanksgiving this year? (<'
(I'm running and ducking for cover hare)
If we have already entered the contest for Thanksgiving, can we enter this same contest again for Christmas? What if I already entered a turkey, can I enter a goose for Christmas? Boy, changing the rules sure opens up a whole bunch of possibilities.
Bob
who does realize that I did read somewhere in another thread (probably) that the deadline had been extended so that others receiving their Christmas Kamados could compete. |
Guillermo
Member
Post Number: 116
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 13, 2002 - 3:09 pm:
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Whoa...hold it right there for a minute.....! if they allow you to also enter a duck for Xmas, may be they can extend it a bit further to October/03 so Harry and myself can enter our Canadian thanksgiving turkey also
Feliz Navidad....to everyone, BTW
Guillermo |
Mstewart
New member
Post Number: 5
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 23, 2002 - 11:56 am:
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Here's my 2002 Turkey Contest entry:
Christmas day Turkey (actually on 12/22/02 due to several places to go)
I Received a 22.5lb Turkey (5% solution added) from my sister in law on Thanksgiving day (it was an extra bird that she had) with the plan that I would cook it for Christmas. I think there was some concern with me doing the Turkey on the K and not cooking it in the oven and getting the usual dry/bland Turkey. We’ll I’m tired of the dry/bland food on the same day every year so I set out to change the minds of several people.
Even though I’ve only had my Kamado #7 for 7 weeks or so, I new it would not fail me. To get ideas for my turkey recipe I went no further than the Kamado Forum.
My first step was to make sure it was completely thawed out. I kept in mind the
Mother-in-law story that my neighbor told me about this past Thanksgiving (as well as many other good ones):
The Mother-in-laws Turkey was partially frozen so she cut chunks of meat off the bird and put them in the microwave! Nice.
Next I brined the Turkey. I figured with the “5% solution |
Thanksgiving 2002 Turkey Contest