It all started with a long night, went ice fishing last night and ended up staying the night in my shack it was -20 my quad and wouldn't start. I had plenty of wood in the wood box so I stayed the night till either my buddy showed up or it was warm enought to get the quad running. Finally was able to get it running at 9am this morning. Came home started the smoker and started prepping the bird.
Stuffed the bird with one onion 1/4'd, 1 apple sliced, 1 potato, 3 garlic cloves chopped, 1/2 and orange peal a lemon, 3sage leaves and a bunch of tyme, all tossed in olive oil (had sat over night)
Rubbed bird with olive oil that had a bunch of tyme and 4sage leaves soaking in it over night, sweet paprika, black pepper and chipotle powder
Being in a daze I totally forgot to inject butter.
In the smoker below the bird I placed a pan with water, apple juice, dried sage and tyme, two carrots a rib of celery and all the giblets minus the liver. 30 min before the bird was done I removed this pan and made an Ajue with this after straining and cooking down for 30 min.
There was no need for butter this bird was magnum juicy!!!!! Sadly in all my daze and confusion I forgot to take a finish bird photo I also had the whole house watching me carve the bird
This is all I've got left if 16#, it cooked surprisingly fast I actually turned it down @ 2pm because I was at 140* and didn't want it to finish before everyone got here. But now I know how long it will take @ 275*