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Recipes => Poultry => Topic started by: TX Gent on November 20, 2017, 03:19:54 PM
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Take one all natural lean non-plumped up chicken, a #1 machine and what 'ya get? A smoking a'licious yard bird that's what.
Started with a 4lb very lean, no hormones, au'natural and non-injected bird. Cleaned and brined with 1/4cup Kosher salt and a 1/4 cup cane white sugar for 4hours. Washed the brine off, dried well and sprinkled with a light combination both inside and out of 1/3 black pepper, 1/3 Kosher salt and 1/3 sweet paprika. Added a small amount of cut up orange/apple/onion to the wholy end and tucked the wings in and off she went ...
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Drowned the combination of pecan and peach chips to get ready for the smoke. Then installed the "chip insert" and added wood. Also made up a foil boat of the same apple/orange/onion with a small amount of water to barely soak for the start and to the smoker went the boat.
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Installed double trouble probes, one for the breast and one for the thigh ... hum ... Set knob @ 250 and buttoned her up.
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OK .... so 2.5 hours later the breast hits 167 and thigh hits 165 ... it's time to pull the smoking a'licious yard bird out of the #1
First the foil to the finished masterpiece .... a play on words
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Next, the caramelized fruit to tease .... a picture worth a thousand words ... give or take a few hundred
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Soon my smoking friends the one you've been waiting for ....
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Great smoking a'licious taste and a beautiful mahogany color to the eye
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The Smoking-It #1 is everything I could ever want in a well made smoker which flat gets it done in the done smoking department
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That's one tasty looking yard bird!! Great job.
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TYVM JustChillin .... I am beyond pleased with moisture, texture and especially the amount of smoke ... just right with zero "too much" or over smoked bitter taste. Best of all I think the results are infinitely repeatable.
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Thats one fine looking bird. Looks like you were rewarded with some very tasty yard bird. Good job!
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That looks like one perfectly smoked bird! Well done!
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Beautiful.
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Looks fantastic!