Sawzall and BBQ a Turkey

Ingredients:

1. One thawed turkey (perhaps that won't fit into your oven or BBQ whole)

2. Two disposable aluminum pans, (because like, why clean?)

3. One reciprocating saw, clean. (No sawdust or bugs please, spoils it.)

4. One new long unpainted sawzall blade, stainless etc. Don't want any pollutants or paint coming off.

5. Various seasonings, a gas BBQ and a grill thermometer.

6. A gathering of onlookers to watch.

While still in the package, saw that turkey right in half along the spine by rotating it until it's parted. Dispose of the insides, cat food whatever and rinse and pat dry, place each side meat side up in a pan.

Rub on various seasonings, poultry and Italian seasonings mix is nice, or near the end of cooking brush on some BBQ sauce instead.

Preheat grill to about 450 F and place the turkey pans in uncovered, maintain that heat (by turning off/adjusting burners and close the BBQ lid) and bake for 1 hour and 15+ minutes until thickest part of the meat is not red near the bones. For a 12 pound turkey it was 1 hour and 15-20 minutes. May need a meat thermometer perhaps.

Freeze one half for later cooking even and only cook one half on a small grill.

Skin comes out crispy and even burnt in some areas, yummy. The poultry seasoning has some salt in it which makes the fatty skin very tasty. Kind of like turkey pork rinds.

The meat is juicy and flavorful also, I think it has to do with the high heat or perhaps how the BBQ cooks things.

Ran across this as a fluke really and it came out fantastic and fast (instead of hours for a oven to cook a turkey).

bon appetit