How to Make Competition Style BBQ Chicken

today we are making competition stylechicken welcome to barbecue[Music]so you were there chicken we’ve got lotsof pieces here we’ve got some big piecessome small pieces what we need to do ismake them all look the exact sameso what we’re first going to start offwith is we’re going to start withremoving the skinwe need to scrape the fat off and makeit look a little prettier you noticethere’s always a big chunk of fat thatisn’t the most pleasant thing to wadeinto[Music]and even though it’s only six piecesthat you need in a box had piggy willoften make how many keys of the chickenOmega forty some 40-somethings thechicken just to get those six piecesthe reason why we take this fat off tothe back of the chicken skin asotherwise just smoking it we make itextremely tough so this way at leastthey can bite through it and it’s aclean bite[Music]not me to rob hot[Music]there’s get out[Music]okay so this piece of chicken here I’vetaken it off you can see here there’s apiece of bone that if you didn’t do thistype of work a judge could bite intothat and that’s gonna not score verywell for you at all so that’s why we gothrough this we’ll get this piece outsit down by removing that piece we gotthat piece of bone sticking outtypically I get a set of shears that Iwould cut that knuckle off with youcan’t seem to find them okay so now justwatch for any little bone fragments thatmight be around clean them off whenyou’re looking to put these piece ofchicken in they all need to be uniformin size copy any bone fragments has tobe a nice-looking chicken becauseappearance is something that you’rescored on in competitions anything elsenow this one has a hole in the top hereis that that’s garbage now if we were acompetition we still cook it just togive away to people but but this ispractice to go to fix bewe’re very excited to be a part of theBixby Rhythm & Blues competition and Jimhas gone there in the past on his ownnot with me it’ll be my turn to gowe’ve been married and have beentogether for few years that this isbefore we met we are going to trysomething new I’ve never done chickeninjection before my research dideverything like that tried to come upwith what I thought would be a goodrecipe not sure how well this ago I’vealways done Caribbean chicken Robinwe’ve done okay but you know what theheck we’re gonna try barbecue saucewe’re going to try a rub and we’re gonnatry an injection so here we’ll start offwith our injection we got all of ouringredients we’ve got water apple juicebrown sugar salt pepper garlic powderginger and then good old maple syrupcan’t go wrong with maple syrup so whatwe’re going to do is same thing as whatwe did with the muck mop is we’re gonnaput this on the stove cook it get allthe sugars all sugar salt both so thatthat way we have nothing left over let’sget it into the stove and let’s getcooking we will now put in the garlicginger and pepper[Music]and we’ll take this to a boil simmer itfor a couple minutes we’ll let it coolnow put it in the fridge overnight andtomorrow it’ll be ready for us so wefinally got all of our chicken skintaken off straight to put back oneverything looks relatively uniformwe’ll see how it goes once the cookingis done then we’ll have to mix and matchand pick out our six perfect pieces butwhat we’re going to do now is ourinjection I would recommend a smallneedle injector make sure you don’t haveany big chunks in your injection as welltoo otherwise you’ll plug it up someneedles as you can see here this is thetype of needle the size that I would usefor doing a pork shoulder so again thisone here is a lot smaller be easier toinject so we’ll just go along suctionand it’ll sit like this probably forabout an hourand then we’ll put our rub into it nowe’ll wrap this up in some saran wrapand put it in the fridge let it sit forabout an hour hour and a half then we’llcome back put our rub onto it and theninto the smoker it will go so the firstone we’re gonna do is we’re gonna tryputting it in but most competition guysare starting to do they’re putting it inlittle mini loaf pans so we’ll put someof our rub onokay so there’s our first one done thenext one also we’re going to do is justput it straight into a regular batheither go on a smoker for about an hourand a half so there’s our chicken out ofthe smoker now we’ll put some barbecuesauce on ER[Music]okay soon as we get this done in theback of the smoker for about 10 moreminutes[Music]