Ain't No Thang But A Chicken Wang.

Toxarch

Thought I'd do some whole chicken wings Saturday, but then got invited to a friend's for grilled burger dogs. Cheese wrapped in beef, wrapped in bacon, served on a bun. They were pretty good. Though they were really messy on the grill.


Thought about doing them Sunday but got invited to another friend's house for BBQ on his new smoker and a pool party. VERY nice trailer stick burner, but he admits he has a lot of work learning this new smoker. He was using B&B lump and a little Post Oak chunks. It was good for a pool BBQ, but not good enough for competitions which is what he bought the smoker for. He asked me to join his team for one of the upcoming events. Should be fun.



So I finally ended up doing the wings for Monday's dinner. I planned to do indirect 300 for 30 mins and then indirect 450 for 15-20 mins. I used the Stoker and for some reason it didn't want to get over 400 dome. The ash was cleaned before, bottom could be full of old small stuff.
I used Yardbird rub and a light dust of corn starch. Meant to try the other Plowboys rub I have but forgot. It came out nice and juicy and the skin wasn't rubbery, but I'd like to get it crispier next time. I would have left them on longer to get crispier, but the meat was already done and I didn't want to overcook them.







I calibrated all the Stoker probes right before the cook and took some pictures. I have 1 meat probe and 2 grill probes, one of them being a high temp probe. So I put the stock probe on the grate and the high temp on the back of the BGE thermometer. Thought it would be interesting to see the difference between the dome temp and the grate temp. I had the BGE platesetter with one leg toward the dome hinge (12 o'clock position). This is with the Stoker set to 300 dome and the meat probe not in anything yet. Looks like 37 degrees difference with the platesetter in that position. Calibrated the BGE therm. last time I cooked, but I kinda accidentally wrapped the gauge getting it too hot after the cook so it might need to be calibrated again.

Jstroke

Looks killer to me

Toxarch

There weren't any complaints. Enough for leftovers (for 1) so I'll guess I get to see how they taste on day 2.