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I always smoke my chicken. But this time around my wife does not want the smoke flavor. Need some tips on how to go about doing this on my offset? I am assuming a higher temperature.
A few more details would probably reward better answers. For example...
What cut(s) of chicken?
Skin on/off?
Do you brine/inject?
What type of indirect cooker do you use?
Do you normally run just wood/mix of charcoal and wood?
I will tell you if you want crispy skin on chicken you will at least have to finish hot to crisp it up.
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Looks like you can cook the chicken on the fire box. Put the coals on one side and cook indirect. Then move over to hot coals towards the end to crisp up the skin a bit. Or put them on the left as usual, then move onto fire box at the end. You should be fine either way.
With that smoker and chicken halves, I'd put them on indirect at 225-250 until 155ish, and then finish them over the top of the coals to crisp the skin.
I just treat the grill like it's a oven, make a fire on one side, cook on the other. Add chips for smoke as needed. I don't care about temps, just if it get's done or not! Good Luck
Let her cook her own damn chicken... just kidding of course.
Just use charcoal and don't add any smoke wood, try to get the chamber up to 325-375* for crisp skin.
Or you can go low and slow it that is the texture you are looking for until you get an internal of 135 then take it into the house and pop it into a 400* oven to crisp the skin and finish it off to 165*.