How to Get the Right Color and Tenderness in Poultry
Every year at Thanksgiving certain people are fighting over the skin from the turkey. Getting a perfect color as well as texture to your turkey skin also applies when smoking chicken thighs for a barbeque competition or smoking chicken in the back yard.
Here are some helpful tips on getting the perfect color and tenderness.
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Brining Your Birds
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Brining helps add moisture to poultry, but can have a negative effect on getting good bite through skin. It’s important to air dry your poultry for at least an hour when you brine to help dry the skin back out.
Put a Rub on the Skin with Butter
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Lathering the outside of your turkey skin with butter prior to putting a coat of rub on, or spraying the chicken skin with a spray margarine will not only help the skin get a beautiful golden brown color, but it will also help with crisping up the skin.
Cover the Bird
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Once you receive the perfect color you are looking for on your chicken skin, cover the bird with aluminum foil. This will actual prevent the skin from getting too dark, but it will also start to steam the skin which is another way to achieve the perfect bite through skin on competition chicken thighs.
Try these steps together the next time you’re smoking poultry in the backyard or on the competition circuit. You will get the results you’re looking for from the judges and the family!
