My first Qview

[huskerthor]

My first smoke in the new unit was Chicken quarters.





They turned out awesome.





Now if I could only figure out how to separate my signature so it is not one long sentence. 

 

 

[rbranstner]

Great looking meat there. Did you do a brine or anything with them? I have the same issue with my signature. Two of my lines are all fine but when I try to seperate the 3rd and 4th line it just puts it back into one line for some reason.

 

[fishwrestler]

mouth watering, I want one for breakfast

Robert

 

[squirrel]

Nice looking chicken and your smoker is very nice too! Great job!

 

[pokey]

I had the same problem with my signature, but one of the members told me the solution. When you edit your signature, there's a button that will allow you to view the source code. When you do that, you'll see the string of characters that represent a line break. It's a "less than sign", followed by the letters "br /" (note there is a space between the "r" and the "/"), followed by a "greater than sign". Insert those 6 characters wherever you want it to break to the next line.

Oh yes, nice job on the chicken!

 

[arnie]

Nice job on the chicken.

I had the same signature problem and was directed to the same fix Pokey used

 

[coacher72]

Great looking chicken.

 

[huskerthor]

First of all Thanks for all of the compliments!! 

I did not do a brine this time, I will be doing one next time.  Since this was my first smoke, I couldn't even wait the 45 minutes for the brine, I was too dang excited.

I did 2 chuckies for the football tailgate party last Saturday and I was told that it was very very good.  I wasn't overly excited about it.  Although it was moist and shredded with ease, I just thought that the rub could have been more potent and next time I will use only hickory chips.  This time I had apple/hickory (I soaked them, only to read on here after the fact not to soak the chips)left over from the chicken.  The smoke flavor was there but very subtle.  I guess this is the great thing about smoking, you get to keep trying over and over and over, and that my friends has to be a good thing!!  I have also heard that the cook is never quite satisfied with the outcome ( I can do better next time).  So here's to next time. 

P.S.  THANKS Pokey for the signature fix!

 

[mballi3011]

Well your chicken looks great and you say that the chuckie was good. Sometimes we are our own worst critics too. Now there is one thing I have found that wrong with your smoker......................................................................................................it's too clean. You better start smoking.

 

[rdknb]

that look very good to me well done

 

[scarbelly]

That is some great looking chicken. One thing I noticed and thought I would help you with some clean up. I line the bottom of the smoker with foil so I can just pull it out and replace it without having to clean the grease up off the bottom - hope that helps ya

 

[huskerthor]

Wow, the old foil at the bottom of the smoker trick.  Too easy, no wonder I didn't think of it.

Thanks a bunch!!

 

[mr mac]

Nice looking chicken, HT!  I like the smoker as well.  When I was first in the market for a new one that one was on the list but I couldn't find it locally.  

 

[beer-b-q]

Great looking Chicken and Nice Smoker...

I do see a problem with the smoker though... It is way to clean for this bunch around here... You need to get busy and get if all smokey...

 

[brdprey]

your smoker looks so.......

 clean. did you not do an initial seasoning.

pretty unit however. and very nice looking bird

 

[wylie]

Very nice looking chicken, I can almost smell it through the monitor.

I'm guessing you didn't season it before hand also.

You might be lacking a little flavor now, but smokers just get better with age and usage. Keep using it and it will become a well seasoned cooking machine!

 

[meateater]

Nice job on the yardbird. I agree that it's not aged yet, way to clean.

 

[deannc]

Congrats on the new smoker and your first smoke!  That is some nice looking bird.  

 

[sqwib]

Awesome first.

Birds are looking good my friend

That has gotta be the cleanest smoker I ever did see.