Baby Backs and Chicken Legs

7/4/12 – Happy birthday America!

DC is under a heat advisory today but I gotta practice ribs.  Here’s the BBQ log for today’s cook.

Did Chicken legs and babybacks.  Used the same rub on both

• 3 Slabs of Baby Back ribs
• 5 chicken legs
• 1 Cup Big Time Rub
• 1/2 Cup Sugar in the Raw

Remove underside skin from the ribs.

• 1:15pm – mix sugar with the rub – rubbed both chicken and ribs – cut slabs in half, 3 whole slabs won’t fit on the Big Green Egg.
• 1:30pm start fire – be sure to clean out old ash
• 1:40 pm prepare a foil packet for Apple chips about 2 cups of chips, soak 1 cup in water leave to other dry.
• 1:50pm fire at 300 still need to burn off charcoal smoke –  daisy wheel small holes only / close down bottom draft 1/4″ of the screen exposed. (Burn off the charcoal smoke BEFORE adding wood – Do not let the temp get to high, takes a long time to cool down.)
• 2:05pm Charcoal smoke nearly burned off – temp is a little too high still (300 need to get down to about 275)
• 2:05 pm clean grill don’t leave the lid open any longer than needed
• 2:11pm fire down to 270, open bottom draft only slightly
• 2:15 fire took off, up to 350
• 2:20 fire down to 300 – added 4 chunks of hickory and 4 chunks of apple and the foil packet inserted plate setter after that, the fire now down to 225
• 2:50 ribs and legs on fire down to 220 open bottom draft full, try to get to 275 ribs meaty side up
• 3:30 temp up to 275 close the bottom draft halfway
• 4:00 legs hit 150
• 4:50 bones up and chicken at 160
• 5:30 Legs 170 and off
• 5:45 foil wrap honey and brown sugar granny smith apple wedges
• 6:00 return foil wrapped to grill at about 300
• 7:45 off the grill

The legs came out a touch over smoked, but still moist.

Ribs went a little over, falling off the bone, next time only about an 1:15 in foil. Maybe just a touch too much smoke.