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    Split Chicken Skin

    I tried my hand at chicken halves again this weekend. They tasted great and were very moist, however the skin drew up a lot and split during the cook. I am trying to find a way to prevent this since I am practicing for competitions. Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I keep the skin moist during the cook? Below is the picture of the finished product (after I tried a piece) and the cooking technique is used.

    - wet brined for 5 1/2 hours
    - removed from brine, patted dry and seasoned with a brown sugar chicken seasoning and placed it back in the fridge uncovered for 1.25 hours
    - smoked (no water pan) for 1 hour at 325 until internal temp was at 155 and then applied sauce (skin was already split at this time)
    - Continued cooking until 163 internal temp at breast (about 10 minutes)

    The bird was a 3.5 lb organic chicken. (not really as black as they look in the picture)


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    #2
    How was the skin? Was it crisp or at least "bite though"? Not having wet brined chicken, I always worried it would swell the skin up with moisture and make for soggy skin.

    I cook a lot of chicken here, and when I grill leg quarters they often end up with the skin shrinking or splitting a lot. I don't think I've seen it shrink as much as what you show though. And even less so on my spatchcocked whole chickens. Don't know of a solution to that though. Pin the skin in place? Haha...

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    • WestDawg
      WestDawg commented
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      I would not call it bite through. In the competitions with the half chickens, the judges are cutting the meat with plastic knife and fork, so I am not as worried about the bite through skin. But I do want a nice appearance, even though that is not supposed to be as critical as taste alone.

    • jfmorris
      jfmorris commented
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      Ok - good to know. I had heard skin was not judged, obviously you want it to look good though!

    #3
    This video might help you out.

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      #4
      I think you need to dial your temp down a bit. Malcom's video above is really good.

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        #5
        Thanks. I will dial it down for the next cook and see how it turns out.

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