our family cannot get enough of this recipe
the skin is ridiculously crispy
and it's so good
my 10 month old ate an entire chicken thigh
all to himself!
better make sure you make extras,
because this will be a hit.
we're gonna smoke this
at a super low temperature
for one hour
to get a really good smoke flavor
in these chicken thighs
then we're gonna finish it off at a high heat
and glaze them
these are gonna be packed full of flavors,
super cheap, super affordable, and super awesome
so make sure you guys stick around to the end of this video
to see how they turn out
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so with all that being said, let's just get right into the video
our first step is to trim up these chicken thighs
flip this guy over so that the skin's down
and we're just going to kind of -
take a look at how we're laid out here
and as you guys can see,
there's a lot of excess skin that's sticking out
so the first thing we're going to do is just take your knife
we're just gonna come and cut off that excess skin
you see kind of cut that off
now we're gonna take and get this side over
as you guys can see,
there's a lot of excess skin over on this side too
we want to make these nice and pretty
so we're gonna take and get this as square as we possibly can
we're only cutting out just a tad bit of meat
but now when we flip it over and we take a look
as you guys can see
we have a very nice, squared,
nice little unison chicken thigh
so that's how we're gonna trim these up today
i want them to be nice and pretty for the video
i'm gonna go ahead and cut the rest of these up now
i have about like 10 or 12 of them
i'm not gonna bore you guys to death by, you know,
showing you every single one that i cut up
so i'll finish these up and then we'll move on to seasoning them
so our first seasoning that we're gonna start out with today is salt
and we're just gonna hit these up with just a little bit of salt
i don't want to go extremely heavy because we are using a rub today
and that rub does contain salt so we're gonna go light
then secondly we're gonna come over with just a little bit of this black pepper
i don't want to put on a whole lot
i just like the kind of bite that it gives
black pepper adds a little bit of that -
a little bit of that spice, a little bit of that kick
that i really love on my chicken
and that looks good to me
then lastly we're going to come over with
a little bit of this Sweet Preacher, from Fire and Smoke Society
i kind of like this rub
i actually had it on chicken thighs last week
and it turned out pretty great
it said sweet preacher but it did have a little bit of a kick to it
i don't know if that was because pepper
i don't know but we're gonna go on kind of heavy on this side
this is the meat side
that looks good to me
now we're gonna take and flip these bad boys over
all fours of them or however many you're doing
then we're coming back with our salt on the skin side
the reason why i started on the meat side down is because
whatever side is going to be facing up on the grill
that's the side that i like to end on
so these are going with the skin up on the grill
so i kind of like to start with the meat side up
season that
that we only have to flip it once
i don't know it's just a weird preference
so that's just the way i like to do it
now we're coming back with some for sweet preacher
and i'm gonna go a little bit lighter on the skin side
than i did on the meat side just a little bit
just give it a nice little color that looks great
i'm really liking how this looks and that's that's good for me
so now that our bone in skin on chicken thighs
are all seasoned up you can go outside fire up your smoker
get your oven preheated
whatever you're cooking this on today
now is a good time to do that
today we're using my pit boss austin xl
and we're gonna use the smoke setting
to smoke these
we're gonna do that for one hour
and we're using hickory pellets
and then we're gonna crank it up to 350 degrees
to finish these off with a nice little glaze on them
so make sure you guys stick around
i'll see you soon
all right so today we got our chicken thighs
and i'm going with the skin up on these bad boys
and when i set them on there
i'm going to kind of try to plump them up a little bit
just kind of tuck in those sides
just like that
get them real nice and good
this is going to be good eating for dinner tonight i love chicken thighs and the skin kind of came
off of these two in the pack so that's kind of why those look uh skinless because they are
let's go ahead and get this on here
and there we go we're at the one hour mark now let's go ahead and take a look at our chicken
and as you guys can see we're looking really nice and good i made these before so i know one hour at
this low temperature we're not even close to being done let's go ahead and shut this down
and get it cranked up all right so now let's go ahead and get this turned up to 350 degrees let's
go inside and make our glaze now that we have our smoker turned up to 350 degrees we're inside we're
gonna make this glaze i'm doing a very simple very easy glaze it's just two ingredients i don't even
what was that oh my gosh we're just making two ingredients two ingredients two that's four we're
making two ingredients that's all we're using uh guys i'm struggling today i'm sorry but that's
okay it's humorous i hope maybe anyways we're just using a barbecue sauce that's already made
and we're using apple cider vinegar so as you guys can see barbecue sauce in and of itself
is very thick and so we're just going to be adding in some of this apple cider vinegar to thin it
down and how much am i going to use it's going to be different for every barbecue sauce that you use
so just add in you know a little bit this is about three quarters of a cup half a cup of
barbecue sauce and we're just going to add in our apple cider vinegar or you could do apple juice
any of that and we just want to change the consistency of our barbecue sauce and there's
really no recipe that i can give you exactly to follow see it's a little bit better but we still
need a little bit more as you guys could see so just add in a little bit more because every
barbecue sauce that you use is gonna be a little bit different um different consistency different
thickness whatever liquid you use so customize this make it your own i like the tang and the kind
of a bite that apple cider vinegar gives when it's mixed together with barbecue sauce this is perfect
look at that so we're good to go so now we make our glaze we're gonna put it in the microwave
just for about 30 seconds or so 20 seconds we just want this glaze to be nice and warm
not cold you don't want to put cold sauce on hot chicken while it's smoking it's going to lower the
turn temperature just going to do some weird stuff scientifically that i don't understand but i just
i just trust what i hear so hopefully i'm right so now from experience i know that an hour at
that low temperature and probably about a good 30 minutes at 350 degrees is gonna be all that we
need to complete our chicken so after the chicken has been on for 15 minutes we're gonna glaze it
that way in that final 10 to 15 minutes that high heat has enough time to tack on
and caramelize this glaze onto the top of our chicken thighs and give them a beautiful color
and finish and it's going to add amazing flavor so i hope you're ready i'll see you at the 15 minute
mark so we're here at the 15 minute mark now our chicken is pushing up into like that 160-ish
range right now so it's a perfect time to glaze so let's glaze it up and let's let it ride out
the last 15 minutes all right so let's get it open and as you see we got a nice and beautiful
chicken the skin is really starting to crisp up real nice underneath this high heat all right so
now we're just going to glaze this up really nice and good and this is being painted on really nice
oh yeah that's perfect i know this is going to add a lot of flavor gonna caramelize real nice
oh we're not going on super thick or heavy or anything yeah this is just adding on the
perfect little bit of color that we want onto our chicken oh yeah look at that that's great
beautiful i really love my job go ahead and get that on there paint it up real nice with your
little brush all right so let's go ahead finish this up and we're gonna get it shut down it has
now been 15 minutes let's check the internal temperature and see where we're at all right
we're gonna open it up and look at how beautiful these bad boys look they're looking really really
nice that glaze gave a really nice color to them looks awesome let's go ahead and stick it
and if you see right there 179 but these are all done so let's go ahead and take them off
we are back inside now and i just want you guys to take a look at what we've accomplished today
that glaze really tacked up super nice on here and you could still see the seasoning that little
pepper that's shining through the skin looks nice and crispy this meat is gonna be amazing
and tender i just know it i could see it i could smell it so now it is time for us to take a bite
but before we do i just want to do a quick recap of what it was that i did today we took
our chicken thighs out of the package and then we trimmed them up we hit them up with salt pepper
and our sweet preacher seasoning after that we put them on our smoker and we use the smoke setting
we let them roll in that smoke for one hour then we cranked up the heat to 350 degrees came inside
made our glaze at the 15 minute mark we took our glaze outside after it was heated up of course in
the microwave we painted up our chicken thighs let them hang out for another 15 minutes in that smoke
in that heat let it caramelize up real nice and here we are back inside and we have our finished
product and it is just dripping with juice as i'm touching it it looks absolutely phenomenal
so here you guys go the moment you've all been waiting for let's take a bite so guys here we go
there are so many things happening here and each one of them is so good first off that
smoke setting on the pit boss shout out to the guy in the comments i forget your name you told
me to look this up i did i used it added a lot of smoke flavor to this chicken especially chicken
because chicken in and of itself is hard to get a good deep smoke flavor in it because you need to
cook it at a higher temperature to keep it juicy to get the skin crispy but man that had a great
smoke flavor i really like the salt and pepper i feel like i could taste it that peppery bite has a
little bit of that spice a little bit of the kick and this rub on here just added beautiful color
all the way around to this chicken all in all this was an amazing meal it is super cheap these
chicken thighs i got 12 of them i think it was like eight bucks or seven bucks at the store
these are nice and juicy tender you could shred this apart put it on the pizza maybe that's the
next video guys you'll see i don't know maybe it's not maybe i'll be giving a little hint
but if you either watch the video all the way to the end maybe you just found out what i'm going
to be posting next so stay tuned so with all of that being said i'm going to take another bite
of this i will have to see you guys later in the next video because this is all that i have time
for today i need to go hang out with my chicken so if you are not subscribe to this channel like
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is when you find this video and as always i'll see you guys in my next video peace