Gameday Smoking Thread (F**k the Colts again edition)

Good morning y'all!

Sorry I missed the What to Smoke Wednesday thread, it's just been kind of a hectic week. I'm at the in-laws this weekend and didn't think I'd get to smoke any meat for the game, but on Friday my wife goes "hey, they've got a bunch or meat in the freezer and (Father-in-law) was wondering if you'd want to help him smoke something. To which I replied, "hell yeah, of course!"

So we are doing a turkey roaster and 2 racks of baby backs today. I'm not on my home turf so I'll have to figure out some things, especially since they have a pellet smoker. I'll miss my stick burner but its good to expand your horizons.

Also, I don't care how this season is going. F**k the Colts all day, every day, and I hope we beat that ass today.

Edit 1: Learned a valuable lesson today. Typically, I'm a buy the un-trimmed piece of meat and cut it down like you like kind of person (I like control, OK?) But here at the in-laws, I don't have that luxury. Case in point, the turkey today. We thawed out a boneless turkey roast and I tossed it in a brine yesterday afternoon. Problem is, I've never worked with one of these roasts before so I removed the string holding it together. Well when I took it out of the brine this morning, it all fell apart because it's not one cohesive piece if meat. It should still be fine, I've got a good chunk of breast that will cook normal and now a couple pieces of dark meat that will probably cook a little quicker.

Edit 2: Learned my second lesson of the day! My FiL's smoker was up to temp but not producing smoke, and he isn't really sure how to use it yet. So we were kind of messing with it and there's a pull on the side, and when we pull it the vent on bottom opens up better and exposes the fire on the bottom. So now we are rolling good smoke, and I've got the turkey on too.

Edit 3: Just popped open the hood to pull the ribs and wrap them and, after a little fine tuning, I'm pretty happy with how all of this is turning out!

https://imgur.com/7RGR5WE