Would you eat this turkey?

No commennt on whether I'd partake or not - but... I would check the accuracy of the therm. Thirteen hours to do any breast is way too long (unless of course you've found the Kong of all turkeys!) Any possibility the breast was still partially frozen?

You don't mention the temp it cooked at. Back in ye olden days they put their turkey in the oven the night before at a nice low temp (that's how my mom used to cook them when I was a kid, and I'm not all that old). So maybe he set the temp at 180--not 225 (the latter of which is not too far off from the smoker's max temp).

But without knowing the temp we're all just guessing.

>The only thing I can figure is that he set it to 225 instead of maxing it out.

I double checked with the guy and he did have it at 225. I figured he had gone 225 because he had done previously, successfully, were briskets at 225.

Nope not frozen either.

I am wondering if he had it on an extension cord though. It's cold out now so maybe he put it closer to the house on a cord. He was not running a temp gauge on the box itself, just the turkey. I work at Cabelas part time and during a food demo once we put a Cookshack on a very long extension cord and it was taking forever to cook a brisket. Extension cords that do not support the draw will definitely affect temp.

I always run an oven gauge as well as a meat proble just to make sure. I wish Cookshack put a gauge on the box. I would really like to add one to the door just for oven temp. I found my thermostat is 25 off. Setting at 225 gets me 250.

I sounds like it was still partially frozen . That adds a lot of time to the cook.

Ray

Turkey breast...Hmm,I have got to deep fry 2 breasts and a whole turkey for our xmas crowd.Cant wait,them things are tasty!!

I followed the Turkey101 with brining and everything and it turned out great. Did it last and this Thanksgiving. This year's Turkey101 is very good and very detailed.

Those 101s are excellent. I send a lot of people to read these when they buy Cookshacks. SmokinOkie gets mentioned alot!