Chicken Skin Shrinkage??

[kindollbbq]

Hello everyone. Cooked some chicken thighs just a minute ago. Doing some competition practice. I trimmed the thighs down. Took the skin off and scraped the fat off of the backside of the skin. Cooked at 325 in a pan with a little of the brine and butter. Cooked till 150, put back on cooker and cooked to firm up sauce.

The skin on a lot of the pieces of the chicken shrunk to less than half of their size. Its actually comical looking how small they got.

What could be causing the skin to shrink so bad?


Brandon

 

[douglaslizard]

i am having the same problems ,have you tried holding the skin in place with a toothpick.

 

[goodsmokebbq]

There is a very fine line between hot and too hot. The skins will brown nicely and not shrink at all at the right temp, too hot and they will shrink on ya. Stay far away from direct cooking, make it hot and indirect.

 

[kindollbbq]

And before anyone asks, NO, the chicken had not just recently gotten out of the pool!!


Brandon

 

[kindollbbq]

See, the skin was shrunk, and too small while it was cooking in the aluminum pan full of butter. To me that seems Fairly indirect if you ask me. Thats what I don't understand.


Brandon

 

[goodsmokebbq]

See, the skin was shrunk, and too small while it was cooking in the aluminum pan full of butter. To me that seems Fairly indirect if you ask me. Thats what I don't understand.


Brandon

We take the skins from the largest thighs and wrap around the smaller ones. Frankenchicken...

Try starting a little slower 250ish, then up to 300 325 indirect when they get on the grill.

I was actually pretty worried that these would shrink up, but it doesn't happen

 

[thirdeye]

I try to stretch the scraped skin, then tuck it under. I try to let my chicken sit in the fride a while before going to the cooker and often I don't need toothpicks.

If I don't scrape (or scrape just a little), and still pull it back to season underneath, I only toothpick the un-connected side. I still stretch it a little before using the toothpicks. The HD appetizer toothpicks seem to work the best.