Smoked whole Chickens, lots of Q-view

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raymo76

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Aug 8, 2011
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So this was my first attempt at doing a whole chicken, and I did 3 of them. All of the chickens were at the 5.3 pound mark. I was going for a stable temp of 330*F but for some reason I could only get my cooking area to 288*F and it held pretty stable around there for an hour or so. Then I had an epiphany about my smoker, its a conventional smoker with no convection plate. So I knew I'd have a hot spot closer to my side fire box. Sure enough I move my pit probe over and boom right at the 330* mark where I wanted to be. So I moved my chickens over and began to rotate them when I spritzed them with apple juice. I used Cherry wood, dry chunks, to add my smoke flavor. I also seasoned the chickens with Bone Suckin Good rub, on the right half of each chicken I used a layer of mustard. The flavor was excellent and the chickens were very moist indeed. My drip can under my cooker over filled about 2/3 of the way through! I had to get another can under it after I was too late in noticing a big mess on the ground. I used my BBQ Guru DigiQ Dx for the second time and I love this thing, its my little buddy.

Also a week or two ago, I got my cooking chamber temp in the 300* range and steamed cleaned it, and I honestly tasted a difference in my meat. It tasted a lot better, had a cleaner more clearer taste, if that makes sense. I gave a chicken to my family and another to my inlaws. My in laws loved it, and they're kinda hard critics of smoked meats. My father in law kept talking about going into a business of some type.

My critique of the chicken was that the skin could have been a litter crisper, I think that was mostly due to the 288* range that it was sitting at for a little bit, or at least initially.

So without further delay here is the Q-View from start to finish. I tried to get a good pic of my smoke, I believe it falls under the thin blue smoke category.... Enjoy

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Don't get much better than that!...JJ
 
I love it when it starts out like this in a post,,,""So this was my first attempt at doing a whole chicken, and I did 3 of them.""

 I love it when ppl just jump right in like this. Its that "can do attitude""   Love it.

 And Great looking birds..
 
Well you got chicken down the compitition guys need to look at this one...GREAT job !  And nice Bear view....
 
Congratulations on a great smoke. Man they look mighty tasty
 
Thank guys for such the kind words. About a month ago I realized that in the last 10 years I got real comfortable in my cooking. I cooked the same stuff over and over, which was delicious, but I got away from the long low and slow smokes which was the reason why I purchased the offset smoker. So I decided all that is going to change, I'm diving head first back into the low and slow smoking. Reading your comments really brings a smile to my face that I'm doing it right. Yes these birds were super delicious and moist, it all came together very nicely. My wife loved the chicken she had seconds when she normally doesn't get seconds.
 
Thank guys for such the kind words. About a month ago I realized that in the last 10 years I got real comfortable in my cooking. I cooked the same stuff over and over, which was delicious, but I got away from the long low and slow smokes which was the reason why I purchased the offset smoker. So I decided all that is going to change, I'm diving head first back into the low and slow smoking. Reading your comments really brings a smile to my face that I'm doing it right. Yes these birds were super delicious and moist, it all came together very nicely. My wife loved the chicken she had seconds when she normally doesn't get seconds.


That's great Ray!

Looking forward to more of your Q-views!
 
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