“bet turkey drumsticks would be good smoked”, he said
“never made them, but chicken drumsticks are fantastic”
hit the grocery store. drumsticks on the list. eyes scan over the little meat counter. oh yah! beef prime ‘ribs’. not multiple roasts. i get a little excited and move slowly towards to not draw attention to this rare small town butcher counter occurrence. snapped up all three packs. these babies hit the freezer for some future heathenistic (yes i make up words) bbq. hate to freeze, but sometimes that’s the way it goes.
right. chicken.
Rub: you know i don’t think i ever made a rub that was ‘designated’ a chicken rub. if i did, it was by accident. get online. how can the BBQ Pit Boys be wrong. i mean they have a youtube show and matching t-shirts. holy, it is like an association with ‘chapters’. wow this bbq thing is huge. anyhow, thought i should try two of their rubs. Chicken Rub and Classic American Brown Sugar Dry Rub.
Of course, I didn’t quite have everything so ended up with this:
Brown Sugar Rub
Brown sugar
Salt
Cayenne Pepper
Black Pepper
Ground Ginger
Spicy Chicken Rub
Salt
Black Pepper
Chopped Garlic
Ground Chipotle
Cayenne Pepper
And this is what happened next. date texts and say be there in 1/2 hour when i was expecting him in 3. like what is wrong with men sometimes. didn’t get to smoke at a low temperature as intended as i had wanted. used place setter. threw on some applewood chips and cooked at approximately 310F for something like 90 minutes. and of course didn’t take a picture of them. must have been distracted.
chicken was great. rub was a problem. i read somewhere to put the rub on 1 hr prior. took the plate out of the fridge after an hour and it look like most of the rub was sitting in liquid in the bottom of the pan. its either the sitting, the salt was too coarse and overwhelming or i didn’t dry the chicken as well as i thought. the result. it seemed like all that stuck was the coarse salt and there was way too much. not great. had to scrap some lots off.
Sear To Perfection 
I dig your recipe, but completely agree with you about too much rub and having to scrape off excess.
too much is never a good thing! just too much salt in this case…. but scraping off food always puts a bit of a damper on enjoying :)
It would have been pretty easy to distract a man for two hours while you smoked the chicken ;) “heathenistic BBQ” made me smile :)
ha! normally would have done that. but he just worked a 14 stretch, drove 45 min to see me. he needed food!
ahhh, passed out from exhaustion and low blood sugar wouldn’t have a very entertaining date! :)
exactly :)