New Guy with a successful start - Ray-Ts Bacon Wrapped Chicken Thighs

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gdadsmoke

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Jul 8, 2017
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I just purchased a new Masterbuilt 21 electric smoker for my birthday from Lowes. Today was my maiden voyage by trying a recipe a friend shared with + helpful hints I read on this site. The recipe was for Bacon Wrapped Chicken Thighs, I will call it the Ray-T Recipe in honor of my friend. 

I started by buying some boneless, skinless, chicken thighs, some 'Rub Some Chicken' seasoning from Lowe's, Cherry Wood, PepperJack cheese, and bacon. I put a small slice of the pepper jack cheese in the middle of the thigh, covered the thigh with the seasoning, and wrapped each thigh in bacon.


A couple helpful hints from this site:

-stretch the bacon ahead of time and use one piece per thigh, no toothpick needed

-no brine needed for chicken

-225 heat for 2 hours or internal heat is 165

I seasoned the thigh, wrapped it, and let it sit a couple hours. I then preheated the smoker to 225 and filled the pan with water. Once the  smoker was at 225, I spread the 12 thighs out on 2 racks, and closed it up. The plan was to smoke it for 2 hours or until the internal heat was 165. I put Cherry Wood in at the beginning, put more in at 45 minutes, and the final Cherry wood in at 75 minutes. At 1 hour and 50 minutes I checked the meat and it was at 165 internal heat so I removed it from the smoker. It was fantastic! Special thanks to Ray-T for the recipe; the pepper jack cheese is key! Below is the finished product....great compliments from my daughter, son, mother-in-law, and wife! 

 
Welcome to SMF GDadSmoke!  I am SOOOOOOO stealing that idea.  Wife is traveling this week.  She doesn't care for bacon wrapped anything, and I've got all the ingredients in the fridge or freezer.  I know what I'll be having for dinner!
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Glad you're here!

Ray
 
thanks every body, appreciate the comments. Had so much fun yesterday that I am trying some baby backs today. Can't wait to see the results.
 
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  Good morning and welcome to the forum from a beautiful sunny day here in East Texas, and the best site on the web.

        Lots of great people with tons of information on just about everything.

        Looks Great !!

        Gary
 
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