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Smoking a whole chicken


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80% brine.

Apparently 2lb 10 3/4oz of salt/gallon

A 4lb chicken should be pricked and soaked for 2 1/2 - 3 hrs, then left to drain 24hrs before cold smoking, 48hrs upto 4days at 60-80degF, then approx 2hrs hot smoke at 220-240degF

"Home smoking & Curing" by Keith Erlandson

 

Hope it goes well. Yum

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I recon thats too much salt. The whole purpose of the salt in hot smoking it to retain the moisture and keep the meat succulent. Too much salt along with too much smoke and you wont taste the chicken at all.

If your smoker has a water bath like mine, then I suggest you soak the pricked chicken in a bowl of 10% salt solution overnight. Cook in the smoker wrapped in foil on the top grid for the first hour and loose on the grid over the water bath for the second with a few hickory chips added in the last twent minutes.

 

Anybody who doesn't know what I'm talking about, check these out:

http://www.bradleysmoker.co.uk/

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