First Smoke on New Masterbuilt

[scoolsnake]

I seasoned my new smoker yesterday.  Today I smoked 2 chickens.  One beer can and one split.  If I ever do chicken again they will all be beer can.  I'm not that crazy about chicken, but I like anything smoked.  I was impressed with the performance of this fairly inexpensive smoker.  I can set it anywhere between 180 and 320 degrees.  It started smoking within 15 minutes after lighting.  All I had to do is feed it a couple of hickory chuncks every 45 minutes.

Temp.-310

Fuel-Gas and wet hickory chunks

Time-2 hours

Chicken-175 at the beast

Brined-4 hours

Rub- Butter, salt and pepper

Skin was edible, but not as crispy as I had hoped.  Next time I'll use a rub or nothing at all.  Meat was smoked perfectly.  Smoky but not over smoked.  I think I'm ready for some pork next week.

 

[scoolsnake]

Posted pics in wrong order.  Oh well, still learning.

 

[red dog]

Looks good snake! How do you like that smoker?

 

[shea1973]

Great looking smoker and the food looks Delicious!  

 

[scoolsnake]

The chicken had a good hickory flavor and dissappered pretty fast.  The smoker was great.  Just set it and throw some chunks in about every 45 minutes.  It's great for a lazy old man.  Unlike the UDS I had that had to be watched and adjusted constantly.  I'm not knocking the UDS, I just didn't know what I was doing.

 

[jp61]

Congrats on the new smoker! The chickens look good!

 

[scoolsnake]

Thanx to all you guys and gals, I figure there are gals here too, the chix came out good.  I read a lot of posts before I started.  I'm taking the 5 day course and waiting on my ET-732 probes now.  Will try something more expensive this weekend.

 

[smokinhusker]

Chicken looks great and I like that smoker too! I've got an MES 40 but considering adding one of these. 

 

[africanmeat]

nice bird