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I'm using my Weber to smoke with for the first time. I've got a remote temperature probe snaked up through the bottom vents and connected to the transmitter outside the box. That way I can monitor the temperature remotely while I'm working around the house or playing star wars.
I think 220 should be the temp. Think I can control it by closing the top air holes.
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yumm! smoked chicken!
and you are doing dark meat. i really prefer that to the breast.
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-Foxy- posted:
yumm! smoked chicken!
and you are doing dark meat. i really prefer that to the breast.
Me too. It's six or seven chicken thighs.
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220-225
but thats a good temp to smoke any meat.
and you do not want to cold smoke chicken.
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Sith_Mauler posted:
220-225
but thats a good temp to smoke any meat.
and you do not want to cold smoke chicken.
I know that. /shudder
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This is cool, I'm sitting in my home typing here while watching the temp using the wireless remote probe.
http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Industries-ET-71-RediCheck-Thermometer/dp/B000FAB8GA/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1325954056&sr=1-2
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275º to 325º. You don't want to get sick and you want to render the fat. Keep a spray bottle with apple juice in it to spritz the chicken. Of course, the professional meat smoker has already told you wrong so will try to correct me.
If you want perfect chicken you should brine it 24 hours then overnight marinade it in Italian Dressing. Then pat it dry (all of this after trimming fat) then spray it down with Pam or rub olive oil on it. Then rub it with spices even under the skin where loose. Put it on the smoker skin side up with the skin nicely wrapped. Smoke it for an hour then turn it. Smoke it another hour then spritz and tun again. Spritz it about every 15 minutes cooking another hour to hour and a half. Turn it. Baste with BBQ sauce. cook till a nice glaze is on it. Turn and baste with BBQ again then cook until a nice glaze is on it and remove.
It should have rendered all the fat. You can bite thru it like a biscuit now and the bone will be white and not grey.
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And before Sith says everyone online agrees with him: http://www.deejayssmokepit.net/Downloads_files/Time-Temperature.pdf
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Yep
275 degrees at the minimum.
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Chicken thighs should be smoked at between 220-250, on the high side of that in my opinion. When I worked at a place that served smoked chicken years back, they set their smoker up at between 240-250 and it came out delicious. Same thing for their turkey.
God, I want some now.  .
Neat thermometer btw. I like
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Brined them in the fridge for 12 hours. Then I let them set uncovered in the fridge for 24 hours. They set out of the fridge for two hours before hitting the smoker.
Didn't put a rub on them, wish I had. I am mostly concerned with keeping the temp constant in my Weber, that's going to be trial and error until I learn it.
It's turning out to be a very fine gap between shutting it down and keeping it smoldering.
As long as I cook them to an internal temp of 160, won't they be done?
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I've never done the internal temp thing. But I do know you need to kill any bacteria and if you don't cook them hot enough and long enough they will be fatty and tough. My oldest daughter hates dark meat and was very upset I didn't do any breasts, untill she tried the thighs. She now says she'll eat them anytime I smoke them.
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Yeah they will be done, of course....they might not be edible if you take too long or too short a time to get them there though.
Too short and they are burned up, too long and they are rubbery, over smoked, vile tasting crap.
It's not actually smoking them if you use a temp of over 270, it's just cooking them. Smoking makes cheap, tough meat more tender because the long exposure to low temps breaks down the meat fibers (it's actually speeded up decomposition but don't think about that cause it's icky). During this breakdown, natural sugars are formed as the chemical process is activated. That's where the sweet taste in smoked meats comes from.
A lot of people talk about temps between 200 and 220 and that's often used as the guideline. I think it's crazy to cook any poultry at those temps, because poultry isn't that tough. It also doesn't need that much smoke. It gets to be too much rather quickly.
Nothing wrong with cooking chicken at higher temps than 270. It's how most of it's cooked after all. You will get a bit of smoke flavor even with the much quicker cooking time, though the internal chemical process of breakdown into sugars wont occur much, so the meat wont be as sweet and it will also have more gristle. In exchange, you will get a more crusty exterior which can be nice.....but it's not why I would smoke any meat. I'd just grill it if that was what I was after. Which is what I usually am and what I usually do btw. 
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Any pointers for bacon, that's my next project. I can get pork bellies at an Asian market. Got the sodium nitrate on order.
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I was gonna say 'Whatever Reapist says'
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I was gonna say 'Whatever Reapist says'
what temperature makes it turn green?
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250 for chicken thighs, you retards.
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TickyAtack posted:
Dark_EternalFF posted:
I was gonna say 'Whatever Reapist says'
what temperature makes it turn green?
I would cold smoke it if I wanted it green.
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Remote temp monitoring while playing a game?
I have to say, quite clever!
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They're done! Cooking time was an hour and 15 minutes. The internal temp was 170+, they are very juicy anyway.
Used a brine I got from this book, http://www.amazon.com/Charcuterie-Craft-Salting-Smoking-Curing/dp/0393058298/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=IRJ3JJTJ1W217&colid=2XRGY20YP38QN
Just brined it for 12 hours, didn't use any pink salt.
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Yeah, the beautiful thing about learning to smoke meats is you get to enjoy all your successes. You can always try something different, and if you do, you'll eventually find something that work really well for your tastes. Everyone is different too. Don't just get a rut because it's good enough.
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that many? im only 1 person, and i wont eat much! ;P
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