Beer can chicken,
step aside.
Pop can chicken
is what we need to be talking about today.
Today we are making pop can chicken. A common barbecue recipe is beer can chicken - where you
quite literally take a can of beer and put it inside of chicken before you smoke it. But we are
not using beer today. Instead, we are using a trusty old Dr. Pepper. We are going to be taking this
can of pop, putting it inside of our chicken, so that while we smoke it it will get nice and
sweet and packed full of flavor. Smoking this chicken on the Pit Boss is going to
add in a bunch of smoked flavor, which is really gonna make this recipe "pop."
Are you guys ready?
Let's get to smoking.
so now we're gonna come in here some paper towel and we're gonna pat our chicken dry
so we're gonna trim up the chicken and i'm going to start by coming down here and getting off this
extra fat and skin i'm going to come over to this side repeat the same process on this other
side over here now you see it's just a little bit more cleaned up down here now we're going to come
and we're going to trim up this neck bone you just want to come in here and get this all cut
off right here and then i actually get the neck bone out we're going to take a pair of scissors
and we're going to cut it off then we'll come down here to the little tailbone we're going to take
our scissors snip off a little bit of the skin and we're going to cut this off so this is what your
chicken should look like down here on this side and this is what your chicken should look like
around the neck and today we're using kinder salt pepper garlic so first we're going to start out by
seasoning up the wing the flat and the drum over in this area just go ahead and get it covered
up and a whole bunch of seasoning now we're gonna season up the breast make sure you get the top of
it and then just give a nice thick heavy coat all the way down that breast then we're gonna season
up this drumstick make sure you get that backside a little bit then we're just going to lift it up
getting all these little corners and that looks about good now we're going to come back to the
other side and we want to get this wing all nice and seasoned up make sure you get in that armpit
now we're going to start at the top of the breast lay it down to make sure we get a nice heavy coat
all the way down the breast down to the butt now we're going to start out with this drumstick
and just going to get a nice little pop of flavor on this bad boy make sure you guys are lifting up
you know kind of getting in all these cracks and crevices now before you flip it over just go ahead
and kind of pat this seasoning in a little bit just make sure it sticks up to this bird now i'm
going to go ahead and lift up this bad boy and get in the cavity down this way and there's no real
science to this just go ahead and splash some seasoning in then go ahead and sit your beard
upright and we're gonna go back in the cavity this way let's go ahead and give it a nice little shake
and bake on the inside now we're gonna season up the back side of this bird and we're just gonna
let loose and give it a nice little shake and bake all over the whole entire thing until every little
bit gets nice and seasoned up that looks just about good to me so now that this bird is all
seasoned up it's time to get out my secret weapon for today's video this is a beer can chicken
although i don't have any beer we're gonna be using pop i'm choosing to use dr pepper today
i think that's gonna give it a nice sweet hint of flavor keep the inside nice and moist so let's go
ahead and get it on the contraption and today's video is sponsored by dr pepper just kidding it's
not i don't have any sponsors because i'm a bum and nobody likes me but we're gonna use their
product today the reason why i'm using dr pepper is that's really all i have there's no reason i
don't have any beer on hand because when i drink beer uh i make everybody around me kind of really
mad so say it's not good for me to drink alcohol i've learned that less in life maybe very special
occasions but yeah anyways besides the point we're gonna go ahead and get this open so go ahead open
it up oh crap i did not plan for that to happen i promise you okay so you want to drink this
done right here like two-thirds i have no idea why by the way i've just seen other people do it
so i'm just literally copying what other people have done i've never cooked a beer can chicken
this is my first one but everybody says that you need to have lukewarm pop it can't be cold and you
want to have it two-thirds of the way down i'm assuming if it's too high it could bubble over
or if it's too cold it'll keep the center of your chicken cold that's my best guess so we're gonna
go ahead and get it into our contraption so we're gonna go ahead and place our pop can in there
and it fits i would have been really upset if it didn't and now for my first attempt at doing this
we're just gonna go ahead and see what happens wow okay hold on this is actually just slid in there
i thought i was gonna have issues and now uh we're just gonna put these back here like he's just kind
of chilling on the beach hanging out having a nice day look at how relaxed he looks he looks
like he's just nice and relaxed i don't really know what to do with these legs maybe i could
like spread them out like that that look weird on camera look at he's chilling he's doing the splits
look at that i think that's how we're gonna smoke him today wouldn't that be funny if we did that
i don't know if you're supposed to do that oh looks like he's squatting look at him or he's
like power lifting he has like a like a dumbbell up here like a barbell he's like squatting all
right just kidding i've had too much fun today i really don't know what to do with them so i'm just
gonna try and cross them down here like this and this is how we're gonna smoke today so now that we
have our pop can stuck up on our chicken our bird is ready for the smoker today we're using the pit
boss austin xl and today we're going to be using some competition blend pellets we're going to go
ahead and dump those bad boys into our hopper then we're going to turn on our smoker to 225 degrees
when you first start up the pit boss it lets out a lot of dirty smoke so we're gonna go ahead and
open up our lid and kind of fan some of that dirty smoke out and then once all that is away and it's
burning a clean smoke we're gonna go ahead and get our lid shut down then we're gonna wait for
our smoker to come up to temperature and once it's at the right internal temperature it's gonna be
game time all right so we're gonna open up the pit boss and we're just gonna slide it in here
we're just gonna try to push it down a little bit because it's kind of uh
right here close to the top maybe get to lean forward a little bit and we're gonna go ahead
shut it down let it sit in the smoke so now that our chicken is on the smoker we're gonna let it
hang out for a good hour we're smoking at a lower temperature so i definitely know for this whole
bird to cook all the way it's going to take a lot more than one hour so there's nothing left for us
to do i'll see you guys at the one hour mark so here at the one hour mark we are looking at about
a temperature of around 115 degrees we're getting there but we're not quite there yet let's shut it
down and keep waiting here at the two hour mark we're pushing about 135 and if you guys want this
thermapen i got links down in the description here we are at the three and a half hour mark and hey
we are finally done are you guys we are inside now and it is time to take a bite but before we do i
just want to do a quick recap of what it was that i did today i started out by patting my chicken
dry then we threw some seasoning on there then we got it on our pop cam we put in some competition
blend pellets turn it onto 225 degrees let all that dirty smoke get out then we shut it down
let it come up to the right internal temperature threw our chicken on we checked it at the one hour
mark we checked it at the two hour mark and at the three hour and 30 minute mark it was finally done
but i do want to tell you guys that at about the two and a half hour mark i cranked the temperature
up to about uh 250 to 300 degrees somewhere in between there and i let it finish out the whole
way i had to do this because my kids waking up from a nap soon and i couldn't let it finish out
at 225 degrees so that's why so if you want to get as much smoke in here as possible do it at
225 it'll probably take you about four hours uh maybe a little longer so just plan for that so
without further ado let's just get into it so the first thing that i'm taking off today is i
just want to rip this swing right off of here all right so our first test is going to be this flat
it's really hot i didn't let it rust please let it rust
it's hot
that wasn't bad there's a lot of seasoning on here and you really get a taste of salt pepper
and garlic that is what this chicken tastes like and it has a nice grill a nice smoked taste we
did a really good job but let's try the breast all right so we're just gonna come in here i just want
to shave some of this breast off we're gonna give it a bite skins nice and crispy looks pretty juicy
not too bad for a chicken breast although again it is a chicken breast it's not gonna be brisket
i see you guys in the comments saying well that's not juicy it's not a brisket dude it's a chicken
breast so it's not gonna be juicy like a brisket would be you gotta remember what you're cooking
but for a chicken breast i'd give this about a good b looks pretty nice so here we go wow not bad
definitely has some nice bit of smoke seasoning is really awesome all in all it's a really good
flavor i definitely like smoking chicken like this i've done some at like 300 degrees all the way
through or 250 all the way through but i really like this doing it at 225 maybe even try one at
200 in the future i don't know unfortunately this is all the time that i have for today i have to go
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night or whatever time it is when you found this video and i will see you in the next video
peace