Best Brined and Roasted Thanksgiving Turkey with Stuffing You'll Ever Have!

Smokin' & Grillin with AB
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okay folks listen it's that time right
now is the time to put that turkey in
but I told you guys last year and the
year before that and the year before
that the only way you going to come up
with a succulent juicy turkey we got to
Brown it right so we F to get it all
right so the first thing we going to do
is listen I got about eight cups of
water in here right now so this is what
we going to do I already brought it up
to a boil so I'm going to make it super
fast right I'm just going to add all of
my ingredients the full ingredient list
will be on my website smoking and
Grilling withth a.com and that's wi t AB
b.com now I'm just adding in some of my
bigger slices of my orange we're going
to put some onion in here you know we
want all of these flavors to just merry
into this right here and the real star
going to be that cup of
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salt where we at you saw everything in
here don't forget you know that if you
guys want this uh recipe this will be on
my website what I'm going to do now is
I'm getting ready to remove this and how
do I know what the time is the objective
is for us to go ahead and get that
softage once we don't have no salt in
here it's ready all of this right here
is nice hot relieve this flavor in here
and the aromatic that comes off of this
is going to be amazing right it's the
process of the brine that I promise you
if you do this and do it the way I show
you guys listen you're going to be able
to make a juicy turkey breast I think I
hear everybody Nam mama say you know
what I'm not cool on Turkey I like
turkey but I like the uh the dark meat
I'm going to show you how to have make
it all green this is hot now we don't
want to put the turkey in no hot brine
cuz this hot brine will start to cook it
right so this is what we going to do I'm
going to pour this into my
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bucket so that's nice and hot what I do
is I add some ice to it cuz we want to
get this nice and cool and to stop it
from cooking it so that we can put our
turkey
in all right so once I hit it with them
ice cubes that's shockolate promise you
stuck my finger in there it is nice and
cold but you guys can see what your
brine should look like look at that now
I'm going to give you guys the real when
it comes to having a brine I give these
measurements you can look at like my
recipes and sometime I use three sprigs
of this three sprigs from that for that
it depends on the profile that you want
to have inside of that meat right if you
want to put the whole box in there then
do it you know what I mean just giving
you guys some options if you look right
here this is a nice looking bird cleaned
out now I'm going to go ahead and just
drop her in here like this and somebody
tell me down in the comment section
below how come when men do something
it's always look at her you know what I
mean why is my turkey a hurt completely
submerged got it soaking nice and cold
right it's nice and cool this time of
the year just will keep it just right
and guess what I'll see y'all tomorrow
okay folks so look now it's the next day
right now listen I like to really I'm
going to be honest with you I like to do
it for 24 hours right so we put it in
that was yesterday evening so right now
I'm going say it's in about 16 hours
right now so what I'm going to do is
these are the ingredients and this year
we going to stuff it right now I asked a
pole inside of one of my lives and
everybody said I'm going say 78% of the
people said they wanted to see a stuffed
turkey this year here you guys can come
on here and you know take a look it's
been brining you know overnight I sat in
theide of one of these Corners in my uh
garage you know what I mean where you
know I had an airtight lid now what I
want to do is I'm going to take it over
there to the
sink I'm going to go ahead and just take
this out I'm going to grab it by the
legs let it kind of like drip you guys
are going to see like the skin on the
front let me get this a little closer a
little less clean up right what that is
is it's starting to drain from the
inside but we're going to turn it this
way and just let it you know drain and
now right off the back I promise you
guys you're going to say oo that smells
great when you take it out so now we'll
bring this and put this down over here
right notice how the cavity is open
right here this is perfect okay folks
now once you have everything set up like
this and I want you guys to take a look
at my ingredients right here this is
just some poultry seasoning and the
reason I'm going to call it stuffing cuz
that's exactly what we doing we stuffing
it into the Cav of the bird right so I
got a few other ingredients right here
but don't forget the full ingredient
list is on my website that's smoking and
Grilling with a.com and that's wi
tab.com right so this is what we going
to need to do folks you going to need to
get yourself I usually just bring myself
a roll cuz in order for us to put this
in there and it to Brown properly and
all of that we want to go ahead and make
sure we Pat it dry now we had brine all
in the inside in here right I like to
get all of the moisture out so I'm going
to go ahead and just stick this in here
like this you know what I mean mean uh
let that work a little bit move it
around hold it upside down cuz there's
some bones right down here underneath
you know this backbone you know what I
mean so it liquid tends to just like
hide everywhere right so we put that in
here like this and you can see by the
way that I'm pulling it out like oh yeah
you know what I'm talking about it's
nice and moist right but we want to get
this dry now I want you guys to just use
your brain a little bit and get a visual
from what I'm getting ready to say
imagine this in the inside of the uh
oven right nice it's hot cooking at the
temperature and by the way we going to
do it at 325° right so as it starts to
you know Steam and all of the juices
from the breast and everything just
starts to go in it gets on the stuffing
now I don't know why everybody sleeps on
the stuffing I don't I love it when I
have it with somebody else but I just
never really make it I've only made it a
couple of times this way but you know
what this year this the way we going to
do it I'm actually going to put out two
cuz we going to have a lot of guests
this year you know what I mean so I'm
going to do one stuffed and the other
would just be you know traditional now I
want you guys to come here come on down
here and look inside here make sure that
light getting it you can just see the
inside of the cavity right so I'm going
to leave that right there cuz I just saw
a little bit of my brine moving around
and this is going to be essential right
we just want to get it all out then what
I do is I take it I like the way they
did this they took the skin and put the
legs back there got it so now I just
want to Pat the rest of the bird down
cuz we want everything to be nice and
dry all right so once we got everything
patted dry I still keep my little half
sheets on the side cuz listen moisture
has a way to just you know come out of
nowhere I want you guys to pay attention
right here this is my dressing really
but we going to call it stuffing now
I'll put a link up here you look at that
I'll give you the recipe for this right
here this right here is fire now if you
got a A lot of people coming why not
just stuff it and then do the rest the
traditional way but this right here get
you going oh and if you didn't know
that's that ouy right there folks yes
sir okay so now we getting ready to get
everything going right now don't forget
I'm making a video so it'll be a little
bit B longer than it would actually take
right but when you go to my website up
at the top it'll tell you how long it
take you for prep and all of that right
so this what we're going to do I'm going
to go ahead and uh preheat my oven right
so per the instructions on the you know
where this was uh packaged up it'll tell
you to you know cooking temperature this
one right here
325° it was 12 lb so for every pound we
want to add 15 minutes right but in my
experience I'll tell you anywhere
between 3 and 1/2 to 4 hours this will
be ready so again bake
325 we hit to start I'mma turn my up
with my light on now listen for those of
us that uh only have like a single oven
you guys might want to check my website
right cuz I got crockpot recipes and
they got I got a lot of holiday recipes
like for one you know you can make a
glazed ham inside of a crock poot that's
for you guys you know because the oven
is a premium listen I'm going to be
rambling in this video but I'm going to
be giving you guys Pro tips after Pro
tips I got y'all before I put this stuff
in in I want to talk to you guys about
the butter right this is already like
sof and butter I keeping a tupperware
just off next to the on the counter this
is just soft butter that would hadn't
made it into this yet and then here I
don't know if you guys have seen I made
a compound butter I made a video look at
that right there look I put this on
steaks put it on everything and actually
I could put this on here if I wanted to
go to cin style right but I got a lot of
work to do but I'm going to make another
smoke one show you guys how easy that is
to make I think I even simplify what I
say even better back to this I'm going
to set this to the side we just going to
use I think I'm going to use butter now
the reason I have this right here look
this is the avocado oil you know what I
mean this is how we going to get it to
Brown and everything to Brown evenly
compound butter is going to be for the
smoked turkey that I'm getting ready to
do like in the next couple of days the
butter I'm going to set this off to the
side cuz I like to get all of my butter
on here but I would like to put my herbs
in there but I'm going to save my herbs
right when I showed you guys that this
avocado spray right here this is perfect
for Browning all right so I'm going to
spray
this now if you guys don't have avocado
spray they listen you can spray Pam on
this they got all kind of you know like
spray oils you know that works fine now
we when we come back to the poultry
right we just going to add this on here
like this right so we just want to
season the bird this the other yard bird
now you guys can come here and look this
is properly seasoned for my first layer
right so you guys going to add whatever
other seasoning you would like on top
for me I'm going to get a little color
from my be rub right this right here is
for like a little bit I love the profile
for it anyway uh my a rub is really for
like for like chicken and you know
lighter you know meats you know what I
mean but I I love this on Turkey I
promise you this combination is going to
be nice now I'm going to hold this up
cuz I don't want to put a whole lot on
here right I'm just going to add just a
little bit you can see it putting a
little color on there open this up put
this over here on this side you know you
don't need a whole lot folks I see some
people out here they seasoning a lot you
know what I mean but too much of that in
the long run you end up with
hypertension you know what I mean and
just other health issues you know what I
mean so why not train your pallet you
know now now you guys see what it looks
like I know we didn't got up close with
it you can see that's properly seasoned
and it's not over seasoned right so look
I'm going to go back now and just hit it
like this just over the top mhm now we
going to go ahead and start the stuffing
part we going to stuff it we only like
about 10 minutes away from getting this
inside the oven right what I want to
tell you is you guys got to like look
right so I'm going to take this you know
what I mean and the reason I have this
cuz sometime we need to add something to
it cuz we looking for certain wetness
right I like mine to be a little bit on
the drier side so when I take it like
this you know what I mean uh this right
here is actually this is perfect I don't
need to add no more broth to it right so
this right here is nice see how it holds
it it'll take a little bit of a throw
you know what I mean you just don't want
it super wet all you need to do is get
yourself a spoon you know something
large and we going to fill up this
cavity right with this andoy and all of
that so now we just take
this and we just you know put it in the
inside now I got it a lot of you guys
you got to let me know man how many of
y'all have really had it stuff or better
yet just how many people have done it
you might have had it you know a stuffed
bird before but as far as you making it
that's where I'm interested in KN and
because they had everything coming from
the you know from the out of the
packaging you know with that legs
crossed like that it would be easier for
me if I had them undone but I don't know
how easy it would to get them back so
I'm just putting this in here just like
you guys see and what I'm going to do is
I'm going to do this cuz I don't want to
pack nothing in there you know what I
mean but we yet we want to make sure it
stay
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now that I put this last little bit in
here cuz I like to have some like this
let me see think I can get a little bit
more in there and just in case you
didn't know dressing is more of a scene
or uh stuffing this is stuffing because
obviously we stuffed it in the inside
you guys can tell by the way I'm talking
right now that I really into this you
know what I mean so that right there is
what you want folks all right now for
the good part notice I have a pan a pot
here big enough for me to put my lid on
that's why I didn't do no giant turkey
you know what I mean at my actual house
I have one bigger than this but this is
all we need for a 12 lb I could have
went up to like 14 lbs right now don't
forget it's going to render a whole lot
of drippings I just sprayed the bottom
so we don't have no issues right and I
didn't cut none of the flap off or
nothing like that cuz some people like
the uh the skin but I'll do all that at
the end right all if I decide to do it
so I'm going to pick this up and I'm
going to set this one right here
oo my goodness I'mma tell it night
night and it's going to get hot now
before I put this in here let me say
this we going three and 1 half hours
right but the first two hours I don't
take a look at it I let it build up
steam in the inside of this in that heat
and I let it start to work so I'm going
to put this in here so my first timer
will be my ultimate one will be 3 hours
and 30 minutes but the one that's going
to go out first is going to be at 2
hours we don't need to take a look at it
nothing like this I promise you at work
okay folks let's look at it remember I
told you 2
hours right I'm going to open it towards
you guys make sure that it came out
right oh yeah you see that right there
m but more importantly let's look in
here and look at the bottom of the pan
you see that right there talk to me
folks that's how you know we going to
have a great taste in you know gravy
right we got to save them drippings and
you can see this now I don't want to
disturb that right now cuz if I do I'm
going to show you what happens cuz every
the heat been in here working its way
around so this get a little bit of dark
dark but when I move it over like this
you can see that it's nice in the inside
we still got a little bit more cooking
to do oh my goodness now I'm going give
you guys this is where the pro tip come
in at we going to use the dripping you
know obviously cuz I keep talking about
it we're going to use that you know for
our uh for our gravy right now I want
you to pay attention I'm putting some of
my drippings on here this is what we
going to base with right see that oh man
then I want you guys to imagine as it
falls down right this the good part as
it falls down what it does is the
seasoning that we put on the skin you
know what it does it drips back in there
and this is why we don't have to season
our uh I mean this is why we won't have
to season you know our
gravy all right so after we based it we
going to go in I tell you it's going to
take about 3 and 1/2 hours right but
this is we going to take about we going
to take out that guess where I say it's
going to take about you know why cuz
every 30 minutes from here on out we
going to check this you guys got to have
a meat thermometer right you know what I
mean when the time comes we'll talk
about it again remember we going another
about an hour and a half and we going to
check on it every 30 minutes to get a
temperature and we base it see you in 30
all right just pulled it out this was
another 30 minutes so right now we at 2
hours and 30 minutes right so you guys
get to see it before I do it I don't
even take a peek at it you know what I
mean when you been making them this long
they easy to make I'm looking to where
it's brown and I'm looking at my
dripping
so again I'm getting ready to baste now
that's up to you guys I do it every 30
minutes some people like to do it a
little bit more my thing is the more you
keep opening that oven the longer it's
going to take for everything to you know
to cook I'm going to go ahead and be
quiet and cue that music so you guys can
see what food porn is all
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about all right so look now we want to
go ahead and use the meat thermometer
right I need that inst read so what I
want to do is I want to read it from
I'll do it from this side so we can get
in the thickest part of it right so we
put it in there it's got a little
resistance to it you know what I mean
but it's nice we got a little ways to go
right we looking for 160 folks so I'm
going to put it back in here I'mma base
it a couple of more times you know what
I mean uh cuz we do have uh one hour so
I'mma base it twice I'm not going to
bore you guys you guys will see it the
last time and we going to make sure that
they T at 160 okay folks look I done
pulled this out let me see I already
took a look at it you know what I mean
just to see what we got now what I want
to do now is I'm going to base it then
we going to let this rest I like to let
my turkeys dress at least 30 minutes
right we just wanted to redistribute all
of the juices in the inside but this
right here look at that right there that
should get you going nothing like
putting something that look like this on
your Thanksgiving you know
table you know
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so and how did I reach my my temperature
and that's only reason I was able to
check it cuz I got a meat thermometer
folks if you guys don't have one you got
to get one other than that you guessing
look at that right there we got some
dripping down at the bottom of the
pan you know what I mean and we going to
let this just rest for 30 minutes get
yourself one of these it's the holidays
we going to be carving if you looking
for a slicer right that that's this is
going to take us through the rest of the
holidays the first of the year and it's
going to get this all the way to spring
so when we start smoking again guess
what folks I'm going to make a dent in
it if you guys look right right here
look at this right here all of this and
then some of this flying on the side you
know what I mean you just want to push
this down this is what we getting ready
to make our turkey gravy with folks here
we go this is what it looks like oh man
I tasted some of this dressing excuse
some of this stuff into the back of here
oh man I had five of these pieces right
here I just knocked off one you know
what I mean so now we going to get in
here just to cut it so you guys can see
right I'm going to go ahead and just
take it like this I think I'm just going
to cut here I'm going to do this cuz I'm
going to take just leg off for you guys
so I'm just going to go ahead and just
you want to know is it juicy and all of
that look at this right here look down
in there look nice moist but I got it
this the dark meat so now push this in
there you see how they go in there look
this oh my goodness you know what I mean
so we just going to go ahead and just
get us a little a little a little piece
right here I'm going to set this over
here just so you guys can take a look at
that right there don't forget folks we
brine this one
all right folks so look after all the
eye candy and all of that listen we
start making everything about this
turkey which it is cuz it's brine you
can look at that you can tell how moist
this is I look I can take my my spoon
you know and get in the inside but now
we want to try some of this this uh it's
so hard for me to keep saying you know
stuffing but you guys know what I mean
and then you can see the meat on here
too that's cuz we put some of that yes
we did folks we put some of that in Dey
and that's that chicken and Dey you know
what I mean uh so look at that right
there now only thing I haven't done yet
was to get the drippings going so I can
get my gravy you know what I mean but we
just take it like this and you see that
right there if you ask me I'd have
another plate I'd have potato salad
candy yams green a small little Ramin
with that uh pot liquor in it don't get
me started folks as you can see I cut
you know a couple of slices out of the
breast you guys can see that it's still
moist right then you can see right here
inside the cavity of our turkey that's
our dressing right but listen I'm not
going to do a whole lot of talking you
can see I got this in my hand already
right so let's go ahead and get
ourselves some so I don't know how you
guys eat it I eat mine here a little
cranberry sauce you know what I'm saying
on here just like you see only thing
missing right now is the gravy I haven't
had no time to make the gravy cuz I'm
just trying to wrap this up and I'm
hungry folks so let's do
it cheers
y'all nothing like this right
here
now let's talk about this uh turkey as
you can see is it moist you tell me I'm
just trying to pick it up you how this
opens up and it tears oh my
God hey look I got a little turkey
dripping right there again cheers
folks hold on folks I promise you I got
the best job on the planet you know uh
get to make delicious food like this and
the beauty of it is once you learn how
to make this if you really like turkey
and like them uh turkey sandwiches you
can make this anytime this is real easy
to do do it you can make this while you
watching football hey don't forget get
you some protection in the kitchen folks
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