Smoking Chicken- Butterfly or Whole

Google spatchcock chicken. Several tutorials on how to do it. Great way to smoke a bird or birds!

I always remove the skin after i butterfly and then apply the rub. if you want the skin apply rub underneath and smoke at 275-300 minimum to crisp it up. or you can smoke for a couple hours low and slow and throw on a really hot grill at the end to s\crisp up the skin. make sure to cook to 165 IT at the breast and 170 at the the thigh. I dont sauce until I'm at about 160 or so IT at the breast and then the last 20 minutes sets up the sauce. if you sauce early you will probably burn the sugars in the sauce and it will be black chicken.

here are some pic of what i do...




Happy Smoking 

phatbac (Aaron)