Anyone ever smoke a large turkey? I've used my pellet smoker for a 15lb'er

In the past, no problem but....
My aunt said she had a turkey that she wants me to smoke for Sunday. I of course said, "no problem".
She's thawing it out and I found out it's a 24lb turkey. That's friggin huge.
From everything I read, you should never smoke a turkey larger than 15 lbs because it spends waaaay to much time in the "danger zone". So 24 pounds is waaaay too big. Right?

Posted: 10/13/2021 at 6:25PM

Anyone ever smoke a large turkey? I've used my pellet smoker for a 15lb'er -- HokieGator 10/13/2021 6:25PM

I've smoked 24 llb turkey on my Big Green Egg before -- MADHOKIE 10/14/2021 11:25AM

Smoked a 16lb bird for T-giving 3 years ago w/wood chunks. No problems. ** -- great2bahokie 10/14/2021 06:35AM

You don't really have to smoke it the entire time it cooks. -- chemhokie 10/13/2021 9:20PM

I smoked one that big and it was fine -- Rinoki21 10/13/2021 9:15PM

Where do you get rolling papers that big? Asking for a friend. ** -- Major Kong 10/13/2021 8:37PM

Deep fry that sucker in pnut oil , delish ** -- astrohokie 10/13/2021 7:30PM

Absolutely and if you can’t do that, spatchcock that sucka. ** -- YardBird 10/13/2021 8:14PM

Nope - just these -- FfxStationHokie 10/13/2021 7:08PM

Those are where the real flavor comes from. ** -- HokieGator 10/13/2021 7:38PM

Split it. Take out the backbone, split the breastbone. Spatchcock on ster -- JoesterVT 10/13/2021 6:54PM

Yup. Ever since seeing this method shared here years ago, that is the -- HokieSignGuy 10/14/2021 09:01AM

Here's a couple pics -- JoesterVT 10/13/2021 7:04PM

Take it to the game Saturday, and get it smoked with all the turkey legs! ** -- UEMcGill 10/13/2021 6:30PM

20 pounder on my BGE last year. ** -- B777Fr8Dog 10/13/2021 6:29PM

Yeah, I have done an 18 and it was fine… but not pellets -- turkeywinghokie 10/13/2021 7:18PM

Anyone ever smoke a large turkey? I've used my pellet smoker for a 15lb'er

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