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Marinaded some pounded chicken breasts in lemon juice, olive oil and garlic for a few hrs. Patted dry. Seasoned with cracked black pepper, seasoned salt, garlic powder, onion powder and smoked paprika. Cooked over medium - high charcoal. Brought them up to 160 and let them carry over up to 165. Good. It's super fucking easy to dry out chicken breasts. I think the keys are pounding them, cooking them at a high enough temp for shorter time (not too hot though, otherwise you'll burn the outside and not get the middle cooked enough), and carefully monitoring temp. Also brining is awesome.
 

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Marinaded some pounded chicken breasts in lemon juice, olive oil and garlic for a few hrs. Patted dry. Seasoned with cracked black pepper, seasoned salt, garlic powder, onion powder and smoked paprika. Cooked over medium - high charcoal. Brought them up to 160 and let them carry over up to 165. Good. It's super fucking easy to dry out chicken breasts. I think the keys are pounding them, cooking them at a high enough temp for shorter time (not too hot though, otherwise you'll burn the outside and not get the middle cooked enough), and carefully monitoring temp. Also brining is awesome.

Two schools of thought on brining, naysayers claim while it does add flavor it can hurt the texture of the meat, make it stringy. I brine chicken and turkey all the time, and I agree with you, brining is in fact awesome.
 

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Do NOT brine your chicken in fresh pineapple juice.
 

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Through some freezer curly fries in the waffle maker. Going to make a smash burger in a cast iron with hatch Chile and some jack cheese, on brioche buns.
 

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Through some freezer curly fries in the waffle maker. Going to make a smash burger in a cast iron with hatch Chile and some jack cheese, on brioche buns.

That sounds great, I've been making hash brows in the waffle maker, crispy.

Question for you, when you make ribs do you: first sous-vide, then smoke, then use direct heat for sear/caramelize the sauce? That's the order my buddy uses and that goofy sous-vide everything guy made two slabs, one smoke then sous-vide, and one the other way around. They all liked the smoke after the sous-vide better.

[video=youtube;IfOO7L2h4ig]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfOO7L2h4ig&[/video]
 

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That sounds great, I've been making hash brows in the waffle maker, crispy.

Question for you, when you make ribs do you: first sous-vide, then smoke, then use direct heat for sear/caramelize the sauce? That's the order my buddy uses and that goofy sous-vide everything guy made two slabs, one smoke then sous-vide, and one the other way around. They all liked the smoke after the sous-vide better.

[video=youtube;IfOO7L2h4ig]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfOO7L2h4ig&[/video]

Sous vide, smoke, grill. That's the only way that makes sense to me, slow braise for tenderness, flavour with smoke, sear it off for the textural complexity.
 

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Monical's pizza. Best thin crust in C-U.
 

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Grilling some chicken wings over charcoal. Seasoned, grilling, then tossing them in some sauce. Frank's, butter, and garlic.
 

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I'm having a big dinner tonight so nothing right now.
 

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Through some freezer curly fries in the waffle maker. Going to make a smash burger in a cast iron with hatch Chile and some jack cheese, on brioche buns.

That sounds so fucking good. I want a burger so badly right now. The Keto Gods will not allow it.
 

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Through some freezer curly fries in the waffle maker. Going to make a smash burger in a cast iron with hatch Chile and some jack cheese, on brioche buns.

Waffle maker hash browns are the shit. When I'm being turbo lazy I'll buy the shit in the freezer aisle, leave those ******* out over night on the counter wrapped in some paper towels, and pop em in the waffle maker. Highly recommended.
 

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