Yard bird.

[bondobill]

Looking at all the bird on here later got me hungry for some.
Picked up a 6 pounder.
Got to agree with Justins comment about it being a shame a bird only has 2 thighs so I picked up some extra thighs.
I cut the bird in half and along with the thighs put everything in a simple brine of Kosher salt and brown sugar for 6 hours.

Out of the brine and rinsed the bird parts, they all got a healthy dose of SBs Texas Pecan and Clucker dust.

I had enough Apple mash pellets for maybe 2 hours of smoke in the hopper so I added some perfect mix pellets on top. I set the pellet cooker at 180 on extreme smoke. After bout a hour and a half I cranked grille up to 300.

One half of the bird got a mix of SBs Chipotle BBQ and Honey sauce. The thighs and the other half got SBs Mustard BBQ sauce.

It was good eating, Thanks to Gator
I like all of Gators sauces but his Mustard BBQ sauce has become our favorite.

Bill

[OldUsedParts]

Dang Wild Bill, you have raised that bar and of all times, when I'm thinking about beer can'n one ManYawner In 12 days I'll be brining my first thighs or any bird as far as that goes so I may have to save a copy of yours and post it out by the Pit as a when to eat scale.

If you don't mind can you give me a "simple" play by play of time and temps you did the thighs on the Pellet Pooper

[bondobill]

Morning Em well it's still morning here anyways.

I put the bird in the smoker set at 180. I ran it at that for a little better then a 1 1/2 hours. My grille smokes real good at that temp.
The thighs had a IT around 130-135 when I cranked the temp up to 300. The thighs finished well ahead of the halves. With the grille set at 300 it took another 45 minutes to a hour to finish up the thighs. I took the thighs off when IT on them was between 180-185. I won't cook nothing without a good meat thermometer.

One thing I didn't have time for on this cook was letting the bird dry out in the fridge for a couple hours after taking them out of the brine and patting them dry. That really seems to help with making for crisper skin.

Bill

[Russ]

Bill, I don't know if you've done a beer butt bird, I've done a few now oup put me onto it. Best ever way to do birds, IMHO.

Russ

[castironchris]

Dang good lookin bird!!