Anybody use mulberry? I've tried it several times & like it. Plus I got a bunch growing around me, just grab the loppers & cut what I need.
Dennis

What’s a good smoker to purchase ?

I just smoked some birds Saturday night. I mix up a wet brine that's 1 cup of canning salt per gallon. I add Bolners adobo ole seasoning, 2/3 cup brown sugar, and two tablespoons silver swan soy sauce. I take a quart of this mix out and dissolve a teaspoon of pink curing salt to it and inject the chicken very well. I then dump the rest of the quart back into the bucket and add the chickens. I add some fresh cracked pepper and let them soak for 24 hours.

I take them out of the brine and rinse them well under cold water. Put them on racks with a fan for 4-6 hours with a fan and let the skin dry. I dust them with a little more Adobo ole and smoke them at 200 for two hours then raise it to 250. They hit 165 in my smoker in 3.5-4 hours. I use apple first and a little oak or Jim beam towards the end.

This works for turkey as well. The smoke flavor is all the way into the meat and its really juicy meat. They turn out less salty than ham and have a slight sweet taste.

My chicken is just plain awesome out of the smoker. Here's how I do it...

1. Brine the chicken overnight in salt/sugar/water - 3/4 c salt, 3/4 c dark brown sugar, 1 gallon of water. (adjust if you need more to cover the chicken)
2. Rinse the chicken well, soak for 2-3 hours in clean water.
3. Remove from water to a rack, dry with a towel.
4. Cover LIBERALLY with rub*.
5. Set smoker to 265 degrees. Add 3 parts pecan chips to 1 part cherry chips.
6. Put the chicken in the smoker, remove when it reaches 165 degrees in the center of the thickest parts.
7. Dip in KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce thinned down some with Pepsi Cola.
8. Put it back in the smoker for 10 min. then remove it.
9. Let it set 5 min. and serve.

*Rub Recipe
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 T Lowrey's Season Salt
1 1/2 t garlic powder
1 1/2 t onion powder
1/2 t chili powder
1 T paprika
1/2 T Salt
1/2 T course ground black pepper

Guaranteed to be terrific!!!

PS If your chicken is cut up, not whole or halved, cooking it in a disposable aluminum pan with 1/2 stick of butter in the bottom is recommenced. Lollipop the drumsticks and cook in muffin tins.

ADC … do you think this would work on Salmon ?… A friend just gave me a side of pink salmon and I was thinking about trying smoking it.

Garry-