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Smoking a chicken for 6 hours, how?

Mud Pig
Mud Pig Posts: 489
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
I came across an epsisode of Diner's Drive-ins and Dive's on food network. They were profiling a BBQ joint that is suppose to be out of this world. One of the features of it was 6 hour smoked whole chicken. Now I've tried to slow smoke chicken at 225 degrees like baby backs and it just gets up to temp to fast to have them in the egg more than a couple of hours.

Here is how I smoked them, 225 degrees indirect. St. Louis spares are on the bottom rack.
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Anyone have any idea how you would smoke a whole chicken for 6 hours and have it come out nice and juicy? It looked amazing on the show.

MP
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,586
    when i do turkey all day its over a water pan with water, might try that. skins no good but the turkey is extremely juicy
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  • gdenby
    gdenby Posts: 6,239
    Maybe its something like an outfit in my area has. Its a conveyor belt set up that first runs the chickens through a bath of spice infused hot broth, followed by a pass through a hot smoking chamber. And over and over again. Takes at least 4 hours to get the first chix off. Often, they come out completely black, but dripping on the inside, and fall apart soft.

    I happened to get some of their flavor mix, and made up a big pot of broth. I took a chicken out of the Egg about once every 15 minutes for most of an afternoon, and dipped it into the broth pot. Not as good a result as the mechanical set up, but quite good. Not good enough that I've been moved to try it again, but if I really wanted to wow someone, I'd be willing to give it another go.
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200
    Why would you want to if you could get it done quicker with awesome results. I've only done one chicken so far on the BGE and it did not take anywhere near that long, had a great smokey flavor and was super juicy.

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  • Mud Pig
    Mud Pig Posts: 489
    That sounds like amazing chicken, where is this place located? Need to put it on my list of joints to eat at.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,586
    with turkey you get a different texture, makes for some great turkey salad, better than roasting it imho. different temps give a different result not necessarily better or worse, just different
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
     
    MP, ummmm great. Thirdeye, I believe has a good write up on that subject.

    As I reall it was cooked at 200° or 225° with an extreme raised grid. 16" from lump bed to the bird.

    Spatchcock of sorts... Adjustable Rig with the BGE extended grid.

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    GG
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  • gdenby
    gdenby Posts: 6,239
    There is no fixed location. The outfit is called Nelson's Charm-Glo. They seem to mostly work with community groups for fund raisers In the northern Indiana area. You will see the big rigs in church parking lots, shopping plazas with scout troops raising funds, etc, throughout the warm weather.

    For awhile they had a fixed location, seemed to do a pretty good business, but shut down after a year. So its now a matter of seeing a sign up "Nelson's here next week" and catching as catch can.
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  • gdenby
    gdenby Posts: 6,239
    Oops, no, its Nelson Porta-Pit.
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  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    Mine usually take 3 or so hours (1-2 birds). When doing 4 to 6 of them, then it gets closer to 5-6 hours.
    Molly
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