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Default Skin Treatment on Smoked Turkey

"frohe" > wrote in message

> Davis wrote:
>> I've been basting with margarine with each new addition of coals
>> (about every 1.5 hours) while smoking a 12 pound turkey, but the skin
>> is still coming out very dark and leathery. Any suggestions? Thanks
>> in advance for your input.

>
> Best thing to do with smoked turkey skin is feed it to the dogs. It
> don't crisp up like chicken does when you boost the cook temp at the
> end of the cookin time.


I've been pondering this very question. I've seen how you can brown a
merigue with a small kitchen torch. I'm sorely tempted to take the leaf
burner that I fire up the pit with and turn it on the smoked chickens and
turkeys to see if it doesn't crisp things up a bit.

JD