Baby Back Ribs and Chicken (Qview)

[lweniger]

Just brought my smoker back from the dead and decided to give some ribs and chickens a shot. Of course the rain decided to come down and i've been looking forward to this all week. Not to worry. I moved the smoker under the patio and cranked it up.

Simple brine for the chickens overnight

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

Rubbed and ready

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

On they go

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

Getting Close

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

Looks good!!

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

Carved up. Tastes good!!

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• lweniger
• Sep 22, 2012

 

[bruno994]

Good looking food there!  Keep the Qview coming.  

 

[rdknb]

Looks very good

 

[lowbass]

Looks good to me 2.

 

[jarjarchef]

Winner winner rib & chicken dinner....... Looks great.

 

[so ms smoker]

They do look good!  Nice color in the ribs.

  Mike

 

[scarbelly]

Congrats on a great looking smoke 

 

[woodcutter]

Very nice looking ribs!
 

 

[smokinhusker]

Looks great! Nice job on the food and the smoker 

 

[lweniger]

Thanks for all the replies. After further review everything was a bit too spicy. On the chicken and ribs I need to cut back on the amount of rub I use. The chicken brine recipe called for cayenne and black pepper, so I will look for a different brine next time. The ribs could have use a bit more time in the foil I think. They were good, but I would have liked a bit more tenderness. I think I would prefer to finish them with a sweeter sauce next time. I had the classic rubber chicken skin problem also. It would be difficult to crank the heat up over 300 when doing chicken and ribs together, so I think I'll try to finish the chicken on the grill to make the skin crispy next time.

All in all not a bad cook. Looking forward to trying again!

 

[biged92]

Those look like some good eats. Good Smokin'!