bigrnm13
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- Jul 15, 2010
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Can someone help me to attach my pics to the forum? I keep getting a message that says I am not allowed to send any attachments.
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Well guys,
I did my first smoking attempt last night. I smoked two chickens. I will send the pics later when I figure out how to do it. Here are the details as best I remember:
I have a charbroiler offset firebox smoker that I just put together last weekend. My first smoker. I put about a chimney starter worth of un-lit charcoal briquettes on the bottom of a box I made. Then I added a few apple wood chips. (they were soaked for about an hour in water.) Then I added a chimney starter of lit coals on top with some more chips on top of that.
I used Kingsford Charcoal briguettes because that is all I had at home and didn't have time to go to the store.
I have looked at a lot of information here on this fabulous forum, and it helped me tremendously. From rubs to the way to cook the chickens.
I decided to cut the chickens in half and put them in the smoker skin side up like some of you have suggested. I did put a water container close to the firebox for added moisture, again, like some of you have suggested.
I had the chickens in the smoker for 4 hours exactly. They came out looking very good and tasting very good. However, I did have some problems.
I could not get the temp to go up past 300 in the smoker. Also, I didn't get the chicken breast temp up to 165. I could only get it up to 124. Don't know why.
I tried not to peak, but being my first time, it was very hard to resist, not only for the chicken part, but because I had a temp gauge inside the smoker, and wanted to know what the temp was inside. I have to get another temp gauge.
I also had to keep adding coals into the firebox, as I could see the temp fall dramatically after about an hour and a half. I tried to do the minion method of charcoaling, but for some reason, the temp would only go up to 300 near the firebox, and 200 or so at the other end of the smoker.
I really couldn't relax and have a cold one inside because I was worried about the temp of the smoker and chicken. Don't know what I did wrong.
I took the chicken out after 4 hours in the smoker and had to put in the oven for about 30 minutes to get the chicken cooked up right. That bothered me a bit.
I did not brine the chicken because I don't have a container big enough for two chickens or the space in the fridge for brining. I understand it has to be kept cold for brining. So I decided to just rub some oil and butter and a dry rub on them instead.
The flavor came out great, and it looked really good too, it's just that the temps were giving me hell.
Any suggestions and replys would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Big "R"
I am not familiar with that smoker but will try to help, have you calibrated your thermometers, how are you coming up with the temp readings.Hi guys,
Still haven't gotten a response for my 08/23/10 post. I am wondering what I did wrong with my temps.
Also, I received an email from Meyer about how to post pics onto this forum, but I have not gotten confirmation from Admin on how to do this. Please let me know as I want to continue my contributions to this forum.
Thanks.
Hey Bigrnm13 - I am new to this forum and just signed up late last week. I have have had no issues uploading images. Have you tried using the image button. This one:Hi guys,
Still haven't gotten a response for my 08/23/10 post. I am wondering what I did wrong with my temps.
Also, I received an email from Meyer about how to post pics onto this forum, but I have not gotten confirmation from Admin on how to do this. Please let me know as I want to continue my contributions to this forum.
Thanks.
Hi,Hi guys,
Still haven't gotten a response for my 08/23/10 post. I am wondering what I did wrong with my temps.
Also, I received an email from Meyer about how to post pics onto this forum, but I have not gotten confirmation from Admin on how to do this. Please let me know as I want to continue my contributions to this forum.
Thanks.
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