I don’t think there’ve been any threads in quite a while on the joys of smoking food on the grill / egg / dedicated smoker / whatever, so chime in - what’s your favorite method of preparing the meat? Have you tried anything unusual, meat-wise, ingredient-wise? Have you tried smoking anything else such as veggies?
I’ve got a chicken on the grill right now. Soaked some mesquite chips in water and packaged them up in heavy duty foil (since I don’t have a dedicated smoker box). I couldn’t find a really yummy rub recipe I’d used a few years back - it involved “sweet” spices and orange peel, I think - so I just used a bottle of store-bought seasoning salt, coated the skin and shoved some under the skin in places, and let that sit for an hour or so in the fridge. Then I stuck that on the cool side of the grill, with the foil packets on the hot side, and it’s been going for something over 3 hours.
About an hour ago, I opened things up and poked at the foil packets to tear them a bit, to let more smoke escape. At that point, the chicken was about 140 degrees inside. So it should be done relatively soon.
It helps that I now have a “remote” thermometer where just a wire goes into the grill, so I don’t have to open the thing to check the bird’s temp (that’s why my first effort, a couple of years back, took 6 hours :(:smack:.