Spicey Chicken Rub (yes, I searched a lot before posting)

[Moscuba]

I am looking for a recipe for a spicy chicken rub. I like Famous Daves a lot but the price seems silly (does make a lot o' birds). Memphis dust doesn't have traditional herbs of a chicken rub (Daves has). Maybe modify the Simon and Garfunkel rub? Recipe appreciated or discussion on modifying a rub. Cheers and Thank you!

[Huskee]

Try Big Bad Beef Rub. It makes a great spicy Cajun-style chicken. Or if you're leery, try mixing it 50/50 with S&G.

[LA Pork Butt]

Blackened Seasoning for Chicken
1⁄2 CUP CAYENNE PEPPER
1 CUP WHOLE OREGANO
1⁄2 CUP WHOLE THYME
1⁄4 CUP SALT
1⁄2 CUP BLACK PEPPER
1⁄2 CUP PAPRIKA

In a food processor blend cayenne pepper, whole oregano and whole thyme for 1 minute. Add remaining ingredients and blend for another minute. Blackened seasoning is used to coat the chicken and fry in very hot butter for a short period of time. Follow your recipe instructions. This is not a good table seasoning. Makes 3-1⁄4 cups.

it can be used as a rub on grilled chicken, too

[Michael_in_TX]

I know I've been searching for my go-to rub for chicken for quite a few years now. The closest I got was PBC's All-Purpose Rub, but it is expensive and can be hard to source locally.

I like the herby rubs, but they can often be a bit too herby for my tastes for something smoked or grilled. (Although I say that and I like them on smoked turkey.)

A commercial rub that I have recently warmed up to is Matt Pittman / Meat Church's Holy Voodoo. It is marketed as a quasi-cajun rub, but it doesn't really taste like that to me. It's very fine, very salt and MSG forward, with a lot of dried jalapeño in it.

I love it on chicken wings and recently used it on a spicy chicken sandwich and it was great. It's not cajun and its not Mexican either, but it does seem to work well on dark-meat chicken.

(With all MSG-based rubs, don't go too crazy or your chicken may end up tasting like a Dorito....which might not be a fully bad thing lol.)

[Dan Deter]

Michael_in_TX my go-to chicken rub (not sure if Moscuba will consider it spicy) is a 4-3-2-1 rub:
4T kosher salt
3T brown sugar
2T paprika (smoked if possible)
1T cayenne
Makes enough for 2 chickens.

[smokenoob]

Tried Kosmos Hot Dirty Bird rub?

[bbent]

This is my current favorite for smoked chicken. My family loves a little spice.

[barelfly]

Dirty bird is good stuff!

[DavidNorcross]

Meat Church Holy Voodoo.

[LA Pork Butt]

That’s a good one! Sucklebusters makes some good ones like SPG and their Lemon Pepper Garlic, but I thought he wanted to make his own. I am not sure how spicy he wants but I just remembered Succklebustes makes a great one called Clucker’s. Most of the store bought rubs run $8-10.

[barelfly]

Another good rub! A go to for me!

[HawkerXP]

Weber make a "Kickin Chicken" we like.

[Mosca]

Mosca to Moscuba! By “spicy” do you mean hot, like capsaicin? Or just lots of flavor?

If all you want is hot, get some ghost pepper powder and add it to your favorite chicken rub. (Ghost peppers and scorpion peppers taste better than Carolina reapers.) That’s what I do. I don’t buy the hot version of anything any more, I have the stuff I need to make anything as hot as I want.