How Do You Prepare Your Turkey for Thanksgiving?

 
  For last 20 years, (On & off) I'd BBQ in my old weber.  I follow a charcoal recipe found in a Weber BBQ cook book many years ago.
  The bird simply gets a butter rub all over, some light pepper, maybe some lemon slices put inside, then the Grill, using the coal rakes inside, place an aluminum drip pan (Weber) between the coal rakes, start each side with 16 briquettes , light and when evenly heating add the bird.  Each hour, add 8 briquettes to each side, and baste bird.  Now my Weber is going on 30+ years old, and it still BBQ's the hell out of birds.  I can only do up to a 14lb bird though, as the lid will rest on the back (Top) of the bird on any one bigger than 14lbs.
  My last bird, a 12 pounder, took just about 3 hours to be perfect!
 Wife made up a seasoning concoction and it was added last hour.

Smoke it. 

Fry it...

+1 on the BBQ method.  Since our main oven decided not work one day before Thanks Giving . 
This was my first time doing it this way on the bbq and was very happy on how it turned out. I will be doing it again. 👍

Tim

I usually brine and bbq. This summer I bought a Traeger smoker and cooked it at the same temp i would have in the oven. Came out great!