sheepdad
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Did my first drum smoked chicken today. I must say that now I know exactly what everyone is talking about.
The Chicken breasts came out real moist and real tasty. The only downside of the meal was that it started raining
like crazy and forced me to take the chicken off before the skin crisped up. I thought of putting it in the broiler real quick but the family was starving and so was I.
Got some big chicken breast with the rib bone at BJ's, rinsed and rubbed down with EVOO and seasoned them with some McCormick Montreal Chicken tweaked with Ancho chili pepper powder the nite before. Got some Honey Crisp apples from the local farm cored them, saved a plug and stuffed them with Cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter. plugged them up and wrapped them in double foil last nite too.
Today I fired up the drum and put on the apples about 10 minutes before the chicks
Got the drum stable at 350 and let the chicken and apples go for 50 minutes. Like I said before, the rain came just as I turned the breasts over @ 155degs to crisp up the skin so I only got about 5 minutes on the skin side. It was enough to get the chicken to 162 deg when I pulled them off.
I don't think I could get the taste that I got from the drum on my grill not to mention the moistness too.
This drum just changed my outdoor cooking big time. Love this thing!
Ok here's some more pics with the apples and some baked beans.
The Chicken breasts came out real moist and real tasty. The only downside of the meal was that it started raining
like crazy and forced me to take the chicken off before the skin crisped up. I thought of putting it in the broiler real quick but the family was starving and so was I.
Got some big chicken breast with the rib bone at BJ's, rinsed and rubbed down with EVOO and seasoned them with some McCormick Montreal Chicken tweaked with Ancho chili pepper powder the nite before. Got some Honey Crisp apples from the local farm cored them, saved a plug and stuffed them with Cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter. plugged them up and wrapped them in double foil last nite too.
Today I fired up the drum and put on the apples about 10 minutes before the chicks
Got the drum stable at 350 and let the chicken and apples go for 50 minutes. Like I said before, the rain came just as I turned the breasts over @ 155degs to crisp up the skin so I only got about 5 minutes on the skin side. It was enough to get the chicken to 162 deg when I pulled them off.
I don't think I could get the taste that I got from the drum on my grill not to mention the moistness too.
This drum just changed my outdoor cooking big time. Love this thing!
Ok here's some more pics with the apples and some baked beans.
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