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brined whole chicken with paprika and thyme

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bradger

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Brined this whole chicken of a 1 cup salt 1 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup lemon juice. for about 8 hours sorry I didn't get a picture of that.
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after seasoning with thyme under and on top of skin, and paprika on skin only.

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fresh out of the smoker
 

JLeonard

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I'd go all caveman on that great looking chicken....Just pulling legs off and eating away.

Jim
 

912smoker

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Nice yard bird there bradger!
I usually don't plan that for in advance for a brine 🤔

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DRKsmoking

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Love doing whole chickens , in a brine or not . Love it all ways .

Yours looks great . now tear that puppy apart, and enjoy. lol

David
 

mr_whipple

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Damn that looks tasty! If it wasn't gonna rain today I'd toss a bird on the spinner.
 

bradger

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Damn that looks tasty! If it wasn't gonna rain today I'd toss a bird on the spinner.
raining here today too, that's why I did it yesterday. didn't decide till Friday, usually did a 12-hour brine. 8 hours worked well.
 
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