Poultry

Turkey thigh

Kalkonlår

80°CRest 10 min

Cook to this all the way through

Forgiving dark meat. Cook it well past the breast number.

Safe minimum 72°CLivsmedelsverket

Where it comes fromThigh

On the grill

Turkey thigh behaves like chicken thigh, only bigger: full of connective tissue that wants a higher final temperature than the safety minimum suggests.

Bone-in cooks more evenly than boneless. Indirect heat for most of the cook, direct at the end to crisp the skin.

Seasoning

In the grill

180 °Cindirect

Oven heat with smoke in it. Beside the coals, lid down, turned once.

Smoke it with apple, maple or alder.

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