Smoked Whole Chicken

Name: Smoked Whole Chicken
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: ⅓ cup All-Purpose Rub; ¼ cup yellow mustard; 2 whole chickens (about 4 lb each)

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

Smoking Meat

By Jeff Phillips

Published 2012

About

Chicken is one of the easiest meats to smoke, immensely delicious, and a good meat to hone your smoking skills on. If it doesn’t turn out the way you want, your loss is fairly negligible in terms of cost and time (compared to more expensive and time-consuming items like brisket or Pork butt).

Ingredients

2 whole chickens (about 4 lb each)
⅓ cup All-Purpose Rub</

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Preparation

Brine the chickens, if desired (see the Smokeology chapter).

Rinse the chickens in cold water, making sure also to rinse the cavities thoroughly. Pull the skin up as much as possible without tearing it, and use your fingers to push about 1 Tbsp of the rub under the skin of each chicken so the rub is in dire