Franklin's BBQ Turkey Breast (almost)

[RG]

As many of you already know, I am planning on a trip to Texas in May and in that trip I plan on hitting some Texas BBQ joints, Franklin's BBQ being one of them. He has a different way of doing turkey and I wanted to try it at home so I did as he instructs for the most part. I didn't buy a boneless breast, I bought a bone in breast and brined it for a few hours. He doesn't brine. I then took it out of the brine and rinsed it, patted it dry and pulled off the skin. He also goes skinless. I then cut the two breast halves off of the carcass and applied the rub he uses which is 2 parts coarse black pepper to one part kosher salt. I applied a generous amount and put it on the Traeger with apple pellets at 250°. I cooked them until they reached 140° and then wrapped them each in foil with a stick of butter and returned to the Traeger until it reached and IT of 160°. Sliced one of the breasts up and served with mashed potatoes, seasoned corn, green beans and parker house rolls. A little turkey gravy on the bird and taters.

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[SconnieQ]

Sounds good to me. Franklin would probably do it your way, but with the volume, they probably make some compromises that they feel don't have too much of a negative effect on their end product. I would never cook a turkey breast without brining. Jealous about the Franklin trip.

[BedouinBob]

Nice looking meal there Jason. 

[drains]

Man that looks delicious! 😛

[Smoken]

Wow that looks Great !

[jcboxlot]

Interesting pulling off before the smoke!  Looks good, you'll miss out on turkey carcass soup by not cooking whole bone in breast.   Left over turkey porn!

[RG]

Interesting pulling off before the smoke!  Looks good, you'll miss out on turkey carcass soup by not cooking whole bone in breast.   Left over turkey porn!

It was smoked on the bone. I cut off the breasts before slicing.