Meat Sales

[Walleyehooker]

Havnt tried a turkey breast as I would rather have the skin on in the smoker so it doesnt dry out.

[DonBo]

Those turkey breasts come whole. Skin still on.

[pikestabber]

Love those turkey breasts on the smoker.

How do you smoke them, Donbo? Brine, temp, type of wood, time, baste them? Thanks!

[DonBo]

Done them both ways, with and without brining. Turned out great either way. I like hickory, but apple or cherry are a little more subtle if you like that. My elect smoker works best if I try to keep the temp around 200. I'm sure a marinade or baste would be good. A breast takes me about 4 or 5 hours if I remember correctly.

[pikestabber]

Great, thanks. I have the itch to fire up the smoker right now and wanted to try something different. This sounds great!

[OnAFly]

The best pastrami I've made with my smoker is wild turkey pastrami. I never did it using farmed turkey, but I have to believe it would be great. Anyone know how long that sale lasts? I'm out of town otherwise I would be taking advantage of it.

[Walleyehooker]

Havnt tried a turkey breast as I would rather have the skin on in the smoker so it doesnt dry out.

Ooops not sure what I was thinking. Maybe the deli lol Turkey breast would be fine and the skin keeps in the juices but isnt hardly edible after being smoked and is more like rubber.

[dewey1]

Anoka Meats. Buy a whole boneless prime "in the bag", approx. 12# and get it for $6.99 a lb. Just bought one today and had it on the grill. Awesome. I was only looking for an 8#, so they cut off the 8#, and seasoned it at my request. Then left the other #4 plain and I cut it into 3 killer ribeyes that I seasoned, vacuum packed and froze. They said the sale should go through next week.

[DonBo]

Sale still going on at Target. Turkey breasts $.99 lb. Whole turkeys $.79.

Got one of those breasts in the smoker right now.

[hockeybc69]

Hey Don

What exactly did you do with the turkey breast for prep?

As others stated above, I have never done just a the breast of a turkey.

You mentioned you have brined and not brined. If you dont brine, are you injecting with anything?

I want to try this.

[DonBo]

Hey Don

What exactly did you do with the turkey breast for prep?

As others stated above, I have never done just a the breast of a turkey.

You mentioned you have brined and not brined. If you dont brine, are you injecting with anything?

I want to try this.

Nope, just did a rub. 200-220 for about 6 hours. Turned out perfect! Juicy and tender. We had some for dinner, then let it cool before slicing to be used for sandwiches the rest of the week. The rest I vacuum packed and froze for later.

I did brush some seasoned olive oil on it a few times, but honestly don't know if that did anything to the finished product or not.

BTW, those breasts were still on sale last I looked, but with Thanksgiving coming up, there'll be more turkey sales going on everwhere now.

[toughguy]

I smoke mine too and freeze the rest for soups and hotdish.

[Jim Almquist]

Not sure if it is at all Superone's but the one in Cloquet had course ground pork in a 10lb bag for $1.88. I thought that was a great price considering there was no bone.

[Leaky]

Cub has Spares this week for $1.88.

[ishy]

Cub brand half hams .89 per #...

Does anyone know what happened to Reinhard1 ??? Forum is kinda slow with out him. Hope is OK..

[hockeybc69]

There has been chatter on a couple other topics. Nobody is 100% sure, but apparently he stepped away for reasons not for sure known.... Not health issues or anything like that.

Conflict of interests or something on that order...

[OnAFly]

Too bad, he had some great info.

I'm waiting for those turkeys to go on sale like last year. The cheapest I found was something like $.49/lb last year.

[DonBo]

.49 a lb is a great deal on turkeys! Target has them again for .79 & the breasts are .99. I'll be putting a couple of those breasts in the smoker soon.

[OnAFly]

What Target are you seeing this in? I'm going to the one in Blaine and they never have anything on sale.

[DonBo]

What Target are you seeing this in? I'm going to the one in Blaine and they never have anything on sale.

North St. Paul.

[OnAFly]

I might have to swing by there. That's a great price.

[lispeej]

Cub brand half hams .89 per #...

Does anyone know what happened to Reinhard1 ??? Forum is kinda slow with out him. Hope is OK..

Reinhard is ok. Just got done PM'ing him a couple of days ago. He is a good man. I agree. The forum is kinda slow without him.

[birdswacker]

Maybe he's putting together some more recipes for us?

[updecreek]

1.59 lb pork boston butt pork. hormel all natural. cub

[Leaky]

Nice - Thank you.