First Smoke in the New Smoke Vault with QView

[QueBeard]

First time poster, I bought a Smoke vault 18 and a thermoworks dual probe and finally got to use it.
8 potatoes, 4 rubbed in evoo and rib rub, 4 with evoo and kosher salt.
2 whole chickens. Brined in water, brown sugar, honey and kosher salt overnight. Then one rubbed in lemon pepper with some salt and heat, one rubbed in a chicken/rib rub of sorts.

Smoked at 275 for 3 hours and then bumped it up to 310 for the last 30 minutes because it was starting to rain a little bit!

Potatoes were great, chicken was really good too, nice and juicy! Smoked with hickory and apple.
I really enjoyed the whole process with the simplicity of propane. I got the smoke I wanted, and it was so much easier to get TBS.

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• QueBeard
• Jan 28, 2018

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• QueBeard
• Jan 28, 2018

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• QueBeard
• Jan 28, 2018

Thanks for looking,
Mike

 

[SmokinAl]

Good looking chickens!
You made the carousel with your very first smoke!
Congratulations, Mike!
Al

 

[QueBeard]

Thanks, Al!!

 

[motocrash]

Nice Christening of the smoker ;)

 

[Rings Я Us]

Good looking onion rings too. :p think that's what those are.
Good job.

 

[dwdunlap]

Good looking smoke! You split the seasoning for the chickens and the potatoes and I am wondering the results. Any preferences to pass on?

 

[zippy12]

This looks very nice... very nice indeed!

 

[QueBeard]

The onion rings were not so good, just frozen from a bag that's all.

The one chicken was a mix of lemon pepper, Lawry's season salt, garlic, and some hot jerk rub.
Highly recommend it on chicken.
The BBQ seasoning was
Salt
Brown sugar
Smoked Paprika
Black pepper
Hot jerk rub
Ancho chile powder
Garlic powder
Can't remember if there was anything else. That was really good but could have been simplified.
I preferred the potato with just salt, but the other one was good too.

 

[GaryHibbert]

Those chickens look fantastic. Great job.
POINT
Gary

 

[crazymoon]

QB, Nice looking birds!

 

[chilerelleno]

Nice smoke, great first cook, looks great.

Welcome to the CCSV Club, I've a 24 that I make good use of.

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[lovethemeats]

Good looking chickens. Love smoked chicken. Point to you for some good looking birds you did.
Now you have to get a couple Turkeys done so when it comes back to Thanksgiving you will be the star of your house. If your not already.