Chicken and Rib Tips on my Shirley

I feel bad since I haven't cooked on my Shirley in a while :doh:. But Sunday I knew I was going to help empty one of my freezers and cook up some food for friends coming over. I had so many thighs leftover from competitions that didn't make the grade and I needed to cook them up. Also some ribs tips leftover to help make room in the freezer for more bbq :clap2:.

So here are the pics............

After removing the tarp had a little surprise of a small hornets nest. So before using my weed burner to light the fire I used it to get rid of the hornets. Took about 2 seconds to get rid of them :-D.


Starting the fire. Takes about 45 seconds or so to get it up to 300-325.


Here it is after torching


Chugging along as I went to mow the lawn


Here is the meat


Getting it rubbed. There was a lot of chicken and I wasn't sure if it would all fit and leave room for the rib tips


It fit :clap2:


Buddy brought over some beer


Rib tips on


Chicken is done


Corn on the smoker


Tips and corn done


Tips


Corn


And plated with some tomato salad to make tacos with the chicken

peeps said:

Damn, that is a lot of chicken! Helluva nice cook!!! It all looks fabulous!

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And that was only a little over half of it :doh:. Might do it again next week :-D

toymaster said:

Good looking food. You have some lucky friends. How long does it take to get your pit up to temp with (and without) that weed burner?. I 'm considering getting one.

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I haven't lit it without the weed burner. But with the bed of lump I lay down and 2-3 sticks to start it takes maybe a minute to be at temp. The weed burner burns it all so hot that it is almost immediately at smoking/cooking temperature.