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🔥🦃 Direct Heat Turkey 🦃🔥

Direct Heat Turkey for an office Thanksgiving Pot Luck.

10hrs in an apple cider brine, then rinsed and air dried for another 10 hrs to help with the crispy skin.

An herb infused butter was injected and placed under the skin to give another level of flavor and add to the moisture levels.

Cooked over some good lump charcoal with a chunk of birch wood and bundles of herbs which smolder under falling ambers and help add a unique smokey flavor to the bird

🔥 - XL Lump by @hardercharcoal
🧂 - De Mar by @deranchoseasoning
🌡 - RFX by @thermoworks

🍎 🍏  Apple Cider Brine 🍏🍎
● 1 gallon apple cider
● 1 gallon cold water (plus extra to fully submerge if needed)
● 1 cup kosher salt (Diamond Crystal; if Morton, use ⅔ cup)
● ¾ cup brown sugar
● 1 tbsp black peppercorns
● 6–8 garlic cloves, smashed
● 2 medium onions, quartered
● 4–5 bay leaves
● 3–4 rosemary sprigs
● 6–8 thyme sprigs
● 2–3 oranges, halved and squeezed
● 2–3 cinnamon sticks (optional, but excellent with apple cider)

🌿 Herb Infused Butter 🌿
● 2 sticks of salt free butter
● Rosemary
● Sage
● Thyme

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