A Pair of Spatchcocked Yardbirds

[wutang]

I haven't smoked any chickens for a while and thought I would try spatchcocking them.

Here are the victims, about 5 lbs each.


Cut out the spine with shears


Here is a pic of it layed out.


Brined them overnight


Out of the brine, rinsed, dried and dusted with rub.


Ran the UDS at close to 300 burning RO lump and pecan & apple chunks. Here they are after hitting 170 internal.


These were by far the best chickens I have ever smoked. I made some slight changes to my usual brine. Not sure how much the spatchcock helped other than cooking time. But these birds were outstanding!

Thanks for looking

[Bassman]

Those are some fine looking hens! Perfect color too.

[Abelman]

Great job on the birds! I do spatchcock every so often but haven't in awhile. You are reminding me to give it another shot. I still need to try a brined chicken as well. I have only brined turkey but never chicken.

Thanks for a good post

[Kyote]

looks like a surgeon took the spine out. nice byrds great looking smoke.

[Uncle-Honky]

wholly smoked chicken! That is some awesome chicken smoke there Adam. Killer looking dinner bud!

[Cajunsmoke13]

Awesome looking chicken Wutang.........

[Big Guy]

Nice birds

[Zeeker]

Excellent looking chicken Wutang. Making me drool just looking at'em. definatley worth these.

[sweet_magnolia]

Nice birds, Adam! Skin looks great!! With running your smoker at 300, how long did they take?

[wutang]

Nice birds, Adam! Skin looks great!! With running your smoker at 300, how long did they take?

Thanks! It was a little over 2 hours. One took about 10 minutes longer than the other to come up to temp. I wasn't watching the clock too close but it was right in that area.