First bird, perfect day to smoke

So today i decided to smoke this chicken i had in my fridge. I threw together a quick drie rub with some granulated garlic paprika salt lemon peper, and some cummin.

After a nice wash i gave my chicken a good rub down :yahoo:

I also injected it with some chicken stock i cooked

Had my smoker preheated to 225, i rocked some hickory chunks and cherry chips really like this combo.

After i had the chicken resting for about 45minutes and the smoker at 225 steady for about an hour i replaced the wood and threw on my chicken.

Threw a carona (cause its all i had at the time) in the water tray

Locked the door and set the timer

I mixed up a vinegar sauce to baste the chicken with

I used organic apple cider vinegar ketchup brown sugar chicken stock and alittle lemon pepper and salt.

I swapped out the chip tray for a cast iron skillet really works good i got about an hour of smoke out of 2large chunks of hickory and a handfull of cherry chips (i do have big hands so maybe alittle more than adverge lol)


At about 2 hours in i started to get really nice color i started coating the chicken with the vinegar sauce.

At this time the corona had completly disapeared so i added a bottle of angry orchard


I repeated this everytime i swaped wood so about every houror so.


This was about 5hrs in 2nd thermo test hit 140 sorry for the crap photo my tablet cam sucks.

The smoke took a total of 7 hours at roughly 225 no lower then 200


I removed my chicken when i hit an internal temp of 160 in the breast, 175 to 180 in the thighs I like to cook chicken more well cause i dont trust the store bought chickens realy.

I also whipped up a bbq sauce using some angry orchard


Really this is the first great thing to come out of my smoker, even my picky little brother likes it,
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