#MAILLARD MALTS BEERSMITH SKIN#

And occasionally you’ll find that the amount of certain ingredients or additives required at the homebrew scale is small, or even tiny. Many homebrew recipes are scaled down from commercial-sized batches. However, even without them, there are ways to reasonably accurately weigh out tiny amounts. Relatively inexpensive scientific gear can improve your ability measure things accurately. Kitchen measures of weight and volume (in the foreground). You can take this recipe and adapt it for roasting in the oven or using your own favorite brines or spice rubs.

#MAILLARD MALTS BEERSMITH SKIN#

I like the spices to be associated with the skin, so I don’t usually add spices to the brine or inject them under the skin or into the meat. Smoking the bird at 225 ☏ (107 ☌) yields whitish, rubbery skin. Likewise, some cooks spice their brine and even inject spices into the turkey. Also, to me one of the best things about turkey is a nice, crispy skin.

I like the taste of roasted turkey meat - Maillard reactions are good! - so I cook at a temperature that yields white (fully cooked) meat. Even though I like beef rare, poultry cooked in the same manner simply tastes undercooked to me. First and foremost, I don’t smoke the bird “slo and lo.” I smoke closer to oven roasting temperatures because I think the pink meat that comes from smoking at around 225 ☏ (107 ☌) tastes slimy. I do some things differently than many BBQ cooks. This crisps the skin all around the bird but leaves the meat inside juicy.

My smoked turkey turns out nicely every time in part because of the cooking method I use - setting the turkey on a beer can “throne” à la beer can chicken and barbecuing it upright. I make turkey once every month or so and my specialty is smoked turkey. I wish Thanksgiving was held once a month. I’m a turkey fiend (as opposed to a fiendish turkey).

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