I love smoking chicken. It's easy to control temp and a nice rub makes it incredible. You should try a rub with 75% Poultry Magic and 25% brown sugar. Fucking delicious.
What's the rough recipe / flavour profile? Not familiar with Leroy and Lewis... never heard of them. Looks fucking delicious, whatever it is!
Yep.. chicken and turkey. Spatchcocked turkey is one of my go-to's for the smoker. Slather on some Duke's mayonnaise as a binder, a healthy layer of a spicy bbq rub, and smoke the shit out of it at about 275 until it's crispy on the outside, but still juicy on the inside. Turkey is big enough that you can really get that crusty exterior with great smoke while still keeping it nice and juicy on the inside. Whole chickens I'll do the same, but I'll also throw some sliced up lemon and garlic in the guts, and keep it whole. Fuck me I'm hungry now... but I'll be thawing out a chicken for dinner tomorrow night now.
I basically followed this recipe; with the exception of using a generic store bought mustard based sauce instead of the restaurant proprietary one.
Is it a full plate of ribs, or just individual cut short ribs? If it's a full plate of back ribs, I usually just treat it like a brisket; salt, pepper, garlic powder, and smoke until internal 195-200. If it's individual short ribs, I actually prefer doing those in some sort of braising situation. Just sear them off in a dutch oven, then dump in some carrot, celery, onion, garlic. Sweat all of that down, then a couple of tbsp of tomato paste, then deglaze with some dry red wine, nestle your ribs on top of the veggies and add some beef stock until the liquid is just about halfway up the ribs. Throw in some fresh thyme and rosemary and a bay leaf or two, then throw into a 350 degree oven for a couple of hours. Make some garlic mashed potatoes in the mean time, then just place your rib on top of that and use some of the sauce that was leftover in the dutch oven and serve.
Had our annual fall BBQ this past weekend. Can't believe we've been doing this shit for 20 years and people still keeps showing up for it, but as long as they keep asking about it, we'll keep doing it. Anyways, here's a few pictures some people captured for us.