Spatchcocking (1 Viewer)

[Foosball God]

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/holidays-recipes/article/how-you-roast-turkey

Apparently I missed 2012 when this became a thing. Has anyone tried this method for your Thanksgiving turkey? Results? Thoughts?

 

[Tom Servo]

I usually try to keep my rooster away from the turkey. It gets burnt and is unappealing to my wife.

 

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Love it for chicken... never tried it for turkey. Sorta lacks that impactful "Giant bird" effect that seems to be the in thing.

 

[Foosball God]

Love it for chicken... never tried it for turkey. Sorta lacks that impactful "Giant bird" effect that seems to be the in thing.

I don't really care for presentation. We just slice it up anyway, we don't parade it around the table for oohs and ahhs so that part doesn't bother me.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Doobidoob. A bit tired, maybe. Best not to say more. Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways and get a bit of spatchka. Right, right?

 

[GOB]

:inchesPantsBackUp:

 

[Hastur]

I have done it with a whole chicken. Great results.

Haven't tried it with a turkey. I imagine it would work well.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

In some circles it is called---Running a Spatch

 

[McGarnicle]

The correct term is spootchquack. As others have said, works great for chickens but I haven't tried it with a turkey.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

This goes way back. My Uncle did this back in the 70s. The correct term is "Spitch-combing".

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

I thought this was a spinoff thread from AZ Ron's Michael story.

 

[geewill]

Did ours last year this way on a 22 in webber. Came out great. Here's the method i followed.

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/11/grilled-spatchcock-turkey-recipe.html

 

[-jb-]

The correct term is spootchquack. As others have said, works great for chickens but I haven't tried it with a turkey.

Spatchgobble

 

[-jb-]

Or gobblecock. But that might not go over well with the in laws

 

[Guest]

Requires two utensils. A spatula, and...

 

[Guest]

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/holidays-recipes/article/how-you-roast-turkey

Apparently I missed 2012 when this became a thing. Has anyone tried this method for your Thanksgiving turkey? Results? Thoughts?

In seriousness, I've done this will all manner of fowl, from turkey to duck to chicken to Cornish hens. It's the best way to cook poultry.

Moist meat, crisp skin, quick.

 

[geewill]

Here's the thing though. I've tried cooking turkey every way known to man. I've roasted them in the oven different ways, with/without brine, fresh vs frozen, rubs, injections, deep fried, propane grill roast with and without smoke, charcoal grill, spatchcock technique and smoked them. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.

They come out "great", but it's still ####### turkey. No matter what i do, I still prefer a nice rib roast...but sigh, that is for xmas.

This year I bought a fresh 16 lb turkey breast. Wed morning I'll debone it and put in brine. Thursday, i'll fill it with cornbread and spicy sausage stuffing...then roll it up, tie it up like a rib roast and grill it.

But guess what.......it'll still taste like ####### turkey.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Here's the thing though. I've tried cooking turkey every way known to man. I've roasted them in the oven different ways, with/without brine, fresh vs frozen, rubs, injections, deep fried, propane grill roast with and without smoke, charcoal grill, spatchcock technique and smoked them. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.

They come out "great", but it's still ####### turkey. No matter what i do, I still prefer a nice rib roast...but sigh, that is for xmas.

This year I bought a fresh 16 lb turkey breast. Wed morning I'll debone it and put in brine. Thursday, i'll fill it with cornbread and spicy sausage stuffing...then roll it up, tie it up like a rib roast and grill it.

But guess what.......it'll still taste like ####### turkey.

Word

 

[Brony]

Thought this thread would be about ####### turkey

 

[NewlyRetired]

I have been doing this on the Egg since I first got my Egg back in 2004ish. It is a great technique for chicken, but I have never done it for Turkey.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I thought this was when you let your wife get spit-roasted by large black men and you have to watch. Right?

 

[Ratbert]

I don't do any cooking, so I passed this on to Lester Burnham's wife.

 

[VA703]

youre welcome

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Afdh_i3Kmy0

 

[CletiusMaximus]

That video makes it look so quick and easy, it's neither. One year my neighbor couldn't find his kitchen shears so he used the lopers.

 

[VA703]

ive followed that video for a few years

the stuffing is amazing and deconstructing the turkey isnt that bad. instead of a cleaver for the spine i just use bone cutting scissors

deboning the thigh and putting stuffing in there then wrapping it up is THE SHIZZNIT

 

[Tom Servo]

Old Hoss Radbourn ‏@OldHossRadbourn 8m8 minutes ago
Attempted to "spatchcock" my turkey. Arrested by the village elders for lewdness and immoral behavior. 50 days in the stocks.

 

[Dickies]

I spatchcocked my turkey this year based on this thread. Best turkey I have ever had. Cooked a 19lb bird in 2 hours, skin was very crispy, and the meat was really moist. Will do this method every year going forward.