For best results, prepare your marinade a few hours in advance of injecting. This will give the flavors time to meld at room temperature. You may notice the marinade gel over a little bit, at which point you should run the mixture through a blender and filter it through a fine mesh sieve to leave behind any gel. That way, the marinade can pass through the syringe of the marinade injector without clogging the needle, which would force you to take the whole thing apart and clean it. Trust us, you don’t want to stop what you’re doing to clean out the syringe multiple times.
When you’re making injections, the goal is to puncture the turkey skin as few times as possible. We recommend that, after you pierce the skin for an injection, you draw the needle out of the meat but leave it inside the skin and make a few more injections before moving to a different spot.