Page 170 - Barbecue Chicken Made Easy

Competition Chicken
Ask any competition BBQ cook what category gives them the sweats. Most will say chicken.
It would seem that grilling a piece of chicken is relatively easy compared to brisket or ribs. But competition chicken has to be perfect in every way – from the uniform shape and size of each piece (usually thighs), the glistening coat of silky BBQ sauce, the bite-through skin, and moist, flavor-packed meat. Keep in mind, competition cooks bend over backwards to blow away the judges who only take one or two bites. They rarely cook like this at home.
When it came time to add a chicken recipe to our catalog
of competition BBQ recipes we turned to one of the biggest names in the game – Darren Warth of Iowa Smokey D’s restaurant BBQ team. Darren and his wife Sherry have more than 800 category