I cooked a chicken (about 4#) from Cooks Venture on the LSG pellet yesterday and it came out fantastic.
I set the chicken in fridge uncovered for about 4 hours before putting it on. I lightly sprayed the chicken with some butter flavored cooking spray and seasoned with Kosmos Dirty Bird. Had the LSG set at 225 and cooked it for an hour before upping the temp to 345 for the balance of the cook. I pulled it when the breast hit 160 and the thigh/leg hit 170. The chicken had great flavor, wife said it was like a real "clean" taste and it is the perfect size for the two of us. Total cooking time was around 90 minutes. We bought the chickens through one of the new order deals Cooks Venture offered for their free range chickens. They have some good videos of their processes.
While the chicken was certainly good what was surprising to me was that I was still getting a light smoke consistently out of the LSG stack when the inside temp was hitting 350. The smoke wasn't like it was at 225 but I didn't expect to see any and that was flat out impressive to me (wife just rolled her eyes). My Rec Tec had no smoke coming out of the stack after it hit 260 which I expected for a pellet cooker. I took some pics but it is difficult to see at that time. I will include a pic of the Fireboard session.


I set the chicken in fridge uncovered for about 4 hours before putting it on. I lightly sprayed the chicken with some butter flavored cooking spray and seasoned with Kosmos Dirty Bird. Had the LSG set at 225 and cooked it for an hour before upping the temp to 345 for the balance of the cook. I pulled it when the breast hit 160 and the thigh/leg hit 170. The chicken had great flavor, wife said it was like a real "clean" taste and it is the perfect size for the two of us. Total cooking time was around 90 minutes. We bought the chickens through one of the new order deals Cooks Venture offered for their free range chickens. They have some good videos of their processes.
While the chicken was certainly good what was surprising to me was that I was still getting a light smoke consistently out of the LSG stack when the inside temp was hitting 350. The smoke wasn't like it was at 225 but I didn't expect to see any and that was flat out impressive to me (wife just rolled her eyes). My Rec Tec had no smoke coming out of the stack after it hit 260 which I expected for a pellet cooker. I took some pics but it is difficult to see at that time. I will include a pic of the Fireboard session.
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