Originally Posted By: eljefino
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
Brining a turkey in a non-food grade plastic bucket that formerly held carcinogenic lubricants, along with potentially toxic cleaning supplies? Held in place with a motor oil bottle?
Yeah, no thanks.
I know, that poultry smell won't ever leave the garage!
Thanks eljefino, you got the gist.
Actually Pop-Rivit, the bucket IS food-grade. That refers to the quality of the plastic stability, not what was in it. It has spent 10 to 15 years subsequently being filled and emptied monthly with wash water with dish soap. As was similarly clean the washed the oil container/weight. I didn't spend those years studying chemistry, both organic and inorganic, and going to medical school, to carelessly poison my family.
Sometimes a person with a "grip" is a rare commodity.
Anyway, here's the end result. I cut the backbone out of the carcass and spatchcocked the chest. I injected it w/Butter, stuffed some bay leaves under the skin, sprinkled it with fresh cracked pepper and Australian Murray River finishing salt. I smoked it 1.5 hours on a gas grill with some hickory chip smoke bombs (chips wrapped in aluminum foil). This is how I do our holiday turkeys and they are really amazing (I use big whole birds then so cook like 4~5 hours and the skin becomes amazing, not like this one).
It was wonderfual and badly needed. After watching that insane call by Pete Carroll, and the g-d cheating Patriots win, we needed something to take our minds elsewhere, to a better land...
This was just the ticket:
