I made Bacon wrapped Chicken Burnt Ends

[Rfhd69]

Those look awesome! Added to my list

[FireMan]

Holy Crap! Each one of these looked unbelievably unbelievable! This was posted at one of my difficult times. I missed it. Not his time. At the top of my list!

[lostclusters]

I hate to be the wet blanket here but bbq sauce, vinegar, and aluminum pans do not play well together. All that acid will dissolve the pan. I know from first hand experience and a heavier gauge aluminum pan. It took a while but holes started to become visible after a while. And where do you think the dissolved aluminum is going?

[efincoop]

Dang, those look fantastic! I love this whole burnt end movement! I have seen recipes for salmon, bologna, pork belly, chuck, brisket (of course) and now chicken!

[ssandy_561]

Look for Hot Dog burnt ends. I did them and they were good.

[Troutman]

Well those look mighty good, but why bother to go through all that wrapping? I'll see you bacon wrapped burnt ends and throw down some pork belly burnt ends aka Bacon Pig Candy;

[treesmacker]

Maybe poke a hole in that pork belly and stuff a small chunk of chicken in there - wouldn't that be bacon/chicken burnt ends without "all that wrapping"?

[Troutman]

Lol

[klflowers]

I made these for the first time recently. They were so good that I made myself not make them every day.

[Troutman]

OR, if you just have to wrap, why not go full on pork with bacon wrapped pork ribs.....so many options, so little time!!!

[DaveD]

Now that is "pork positive." "Pork forward." "Pork intensive."

[ssandy_561]

Been There, Done That. Delicious!

[treesmacker]

Well, if we're going crazy, dunk those bacon wrapped pork ribs in some beer batter and deep fry them! OK... I just got a deep fryer...just thinkin!

[randy.56]

Sundays test cook I made these, yum, here a tip for yawl, may want to test taste them before the Sause step. as they are marvelous nuggets of greatness. I used Meathead's chicken rub on the chicken and Pork rub on the bacon. And meathead's BBQ Sause. All that bacon and butter is good for yawl.

[fzxdoc]

Do you mean you'd just skip the sauce/butter/sugar mix step next time and just eat the unsauced nuggets?

Kathryn

[rickgregory]

I was wondering about this. the butter/sugar thing is basically candying them and... eh, I don't have much of a sweet tooth.

[randy.56]

Yes fzxdoc, they are about 165 IT after being on the pellet grill at 300 degrees. For one hour. I did rotate them at 30 minutes, to get the bacon up side. Popped couple in the mouth before Sause, I think I like them better. Skip the Sause

[GoDuke]

I tried these yesterday and clearly screwed something up. The chicken was dry and tough and I think I reduced the sauce pool too much. I temped the chicken before I put them in the pool and it was about 200 so no surprise they were dried out, but I was trying to get the bacon nice and crispy first. That's a challenge I have with all bacon-wrapped stuff. Either I have properly cooked stuffed wrapped in soggy bacon or overcooked stuff wrapped in nice rendered bacon.

Maybe I was cooking at the wrong temp? At first I struggled to get the grill up to 325 so maybe too long at too low of a temp didn't render the fat but cooked the chicken too much?

On the sauce stage, how far do you reduce? Do you just try to get them glazed a little bit or do you reduce the sauce down to a certain level?

[klflowers]

I microwave the bacon to about half cooked let it cool then wrap if I am using thick cut bacon.

[Spitts57]

Made these today as a test for a cook off next week! I overcooked them as I lost track with other experiments but the
"jacuzzi" saved them! Fun and tasty!! I'll be more careful next week!!