UCS - First cook! Finally!

[garagewear]

Decided to finally fire up the UCS (Frankenstein Egg) today. Debated what to cook and ended up with chicken quarters. Let the chicken come to room temp then through them on the UCS. Temp on the UCS was between 300 and 350. I used the Kamado Joe plate setter / heat diverter. After an hour I flipped them then let them go for another 30 min.

Pulled the chicken off and kicked it up to 450. Put 8 hot dogs and 3 packages of red potatos on and left them for 30 min. Should have put the potatos on the plate setter when I flipped the birds.

I hate cooking chicken but I must say this was the best I have ever done. It was nice and golden, lightly crispy on the outside, very moist, fall of the bone and what a pretty smoke ring. Forgot to take pictures until we were cleaning up.

 

[Meat Burner]

What's a UCS?

 

[Ashmont]

What's a UCS?

Ugly Ceramic Smoker? Got me! Looks good to eat! Good Yardbird...

 

[SmokeJumper]

Good to see you got her going. Nice looking cook. Did you ever post a picture of your firebox shims?

 

[Meat Burner]

Thanks Ash, but I still don't know what a Ugly Ceramic Smoker is supposed to be. Is it a smoker built like a UDS or is it a production smoker? Just curious.

 

[FIREANDFLAMES]

meh!

 

[garagewear]

It is a Chinese copy of a Big Green Egg that was dropped by FedEx. I found a BGE dome and put on it and got it going. Had to make several adjustments to get it to work. Someone here on the forum tagged it UCS. I was calling it the Big Fake Egg.

Here are the two threads about it.

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81658&highlight=kamado

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84323&highlight=kamado

 

[garagewear]

Good to see you got her going. Nice looking cook. Did you ever post a picture of your firebox shims?

I didn't post pics of the shims. I will snap some on the next cook.

 

[Derek]

Good looking cook here man, But your yardbird looks a little naked with out the bbq sauce on her

 

[garagewear]

Good looking cook here man, But your yardbird looks a little naked with out the bbq sauce on her

This was my first shot at smoking. Being in North Alabama the next bird will have some good ole White Sauce on it.

 

[Derek]

This was my first shot at smoking. Being in North Alabama the next bird will have some good ole White Sauce on it.

Congrats, and glad to hear that.

I've heard the white sauce is awesome, but how does it taste on ribs?

 

[garagewear]

White sauce is made for chicken. My wife likes it on pork but I really like something tangy on ribs.