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These are not a competition recipes but to please the little woman when she complains about eating all those thighs or spicy sweet chicken or burned chicken on the grill.
#1 - weber kettle with rotisserie ring and 2 whole chickens. Use weber charcoal baskets for the fire and it takes about a half chimney of lump with 6 chunks of pecan wood. Start fire. Add wood just before putting on chicken.
- Cut 2 onions & apples into quarters.
- Rinse out chickens, rub inside with sage, stuff with apples/onions.
- Rub with butter on outside and apply good rub. I like Slabs chicken or pork.
- Tie onto rod and when Kettle is about 400F on dome (I have a thermo there) put on chickens.
- cook an hour to hour and a quarter and they should be done. Throw away stuffing.
#2 - half chickens. Use your smoker at 300F.
- Cut chicken in half, put each half in a 1/2 foil steam pan.
- Rub bottom with good chicken rub (see above), turn over and rub top.
- Add 12 oz of parkay or butter to the pan. Cook for 1 hour.
- Cover with steam pan lid and cook for 1 hour.
- Carefully remove chicken from pan and brush sauce on bottom, turn and brush sauce on top, place on smoker grill and cook for 45 minutes. You may want to ad sauce part way thru.
This works for Breast sections as well but no more than 3 in a pan and keep the thick sides to the outside.
Note: you can do the first 2 steps in the oven and do 4 or 6 pans and then finish on a warm gas grill using less cooking time. Don't let the sauce burn. Share this with people that don't smoke meat and don't have a smoker. They will thank you many times over.
#1 - weber kettle with rotisserie ring and 2 whole chickens. Use weber charcoal baskets for the fire and it takes about a half chimney of lump with 6 chunks of pecan wood. Start fire. Add wood just before putting on chicken.
- Cut 2 onions & apples into quarters.
- Rinse out chickens, rub inside with sage, stuff with apples/onions.
- Rub with butter on outside and apply good rub. I like Slabs chicken or pork.
- Tie onto rod and when Kettle is about 400F on dome (I have a thermo there) put on chickens.
- cook an hour to hour and a quarter and they should be done. Throw away stuffing.
#2 - half chickens. Use your smoker at 300F.
- Cut chicken in half, put each half in a 1/2 foil steam pan.
- Rub bottom with good chicken rub (see above), turn over and rub top.
- Add 12 oz of parkay or butter to the pan. Cook for 1 hour.
- Cover with steam pan lid and cook for 1 hour.
- Carefully remove chicken from pan and brush sauce on bottom, turn and brush sauce on top, place on smoker grill and cook for 45 minutes. You may want to ad sauce part way thru.
This works for Breast sections as well but no more than 3 in a pan and keep the thick sides to the outside.
Note: you can do the first 2 steps in the oven and do 4 or 6 pans and then finish on a warm gas grill using less cooking time. Don't let the sauce burn. Share this with people that don't smoke meat and don't have a smoker. They will thank you many times over.
