Some might say that my friends and I look for reasons to have a party.  I don’t think US vs. Canada in the first round of the World Baseball Classic is a bad reason to have a party, do you?  We decided to do it up Americana style and have a smoker party.  Not that type of smoker party you degenerate, the kind with mesquite chunks and lots of cold beer.

Here is a basic run down on what I used in the rub, although you should put something together that fits your personal smoking style.

Cayenne Pepper
Black Pepper
Paprika
Thyme
Salt

and it looked like this:

Rub the rub on the chicken.  I used chicken thighs because I like dark meat and think that it works well with smoking. Plus buying thighs is much less expensive than the more popular chicken breasts.  Chicken breasts also dry out and if you are going to go to the trouble of smoking meat all day, you probably don’t want to end up with a dry finished product.

I also want to mention that smoking chicken isn’t brain surgery.  If you’ve got some chicken, a smoker (or even a grill), and some wood chips you can make this happen.  Smoke it if you got it, so to speak.  And no I didn’t write this post in Boulder….