Save some precious kitchen space by cooking your Thanksgiving turkey on the barbecue! Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner, with its multitude of scrumptious trimmings, for a hungry gaggle of family and guests is quite a challenge, especially when the cook has to make do with rather limited cooking resources. However, a golden opportunity presents itself for those lucky enough to possess a covered barbecue – be it charcoal or gas-fired – for the cook of the day to earn lots of brownie points, and the unfortunate person who drew the short straw to clean the fat-splattered, ex-turkey oven, a welcome respite. 1.
Valuable oven space is freed up for other culinary duties. 2. The succulence, terrific taste, beauty to the eye of the beholder and the bewitching aroma that pervades the atmosphere transcends, in my humble opinion, the impact that oven-cooked birds usually produce AND, if the turkey is smoke-cooked, the resultant golden mahogany veneer will be the propellant responsible for projecting the taste buds of all those nearby into mouth-watering overdrive! 3.
The oven (see above) retains its original pristine state (which is nice!) Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish! 4. After the cook has retrieved the bird, perhaps braving the elements*, and presented it for approval to the hungry throng he or she can bask in some well-deserved back-slapping hero-worshiping (always good for a barbecue chef's ego). *Neither rain nor snow should prevent y.