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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: squirtthecat on August 26, 2012, 05:54:45 PM

Title: When my MAK 1 Star dreams...
Post by: squirtthecat on August 26, 2012, 05:54:45 PM
... he thinks he can cook 50 chicken halves.

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 ;D

Split chicken breasts were EIGHTY cents a pound on Friday, so I grabbed a cart and stocked up.

(http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-vSuGvTlgxw0/UDfws6h-AeI/AAAAAAABkoY/3RFQ11q_cOw/s800/20120824151223.jpg)   (57 pounds worth)

Got home and piled them into the freezer.   Pulled about 35 or so pounds out last night to start thawing.

And here we go..

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I skinned about 2/3rds of them, and left the skin on the rest.  Everybody got painted with Sriracha, and the top rack got a heavy dusting of Head Country.   The bottom will just get smoke, and whatever drips off of the top layer.

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The Traeger wanted to play, so we loaded him as well.   Those got some basic Williams BBQ rub.

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Both pits are running at 250°, so we'll check back in about 2.5 hours.


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Getting some color now..

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I'll start probing the Traeger batch in about 30 minutes.




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And of course they all got done at once...    Cue the pan brigade.

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Stacked in my Wannabe Cambro.

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And my SamsBro.    ;D

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I'll pull the breasts off of the bones this evening, and vacbag most of them for the freezer.
Title: Re: When my MAK 1 Star dreams...
Post by: smokeasaurus on August 26, 2012, 06:14:23 PM
No chickens were harmed in the making of this post..................outrageous!!!
Title: When my MAK 1 Star dreams...
Post by: mikecorn.1 on August 26, 2012, 07:07:18 PM
CHICKEN!!!


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Title: Re: When my MAK 1 Star dreams...
Post by: muebe on August 26, 2012, 08:24:36 PM
Got chicken? :D
Title: Re: When my MAK 1 Star dreams...
Post by: squirtthecat on August 26, 2012, 09:35:17 PM

My faux Cambro was Coleman powered cooler.  Acts like a mini fridge.   It is just the right width to hold those pans, and they were still finger scorching hot when I started pulling the chicken at 7:30 tonight.

I filled 7 quart vacbags with the breasts (3 per bag), and 2 with the rib pieces/parts.  And there is a gallon bag in the fridge for dinners this week.

And a 2 gallon bag full of smokey chicken bones for stock.  ;)