 welcome back to the fire and water cooking channel and guess what I'm gonna make again today another chicken well I got a new cooker to play with so I'm actually gonna cook this on the pit barrel I got a pit barrel junior smoker not too long ago about a week ago and I promised I would make a couple videos with it because I want to try it out I've heard a lot about this cooker I've never used one and I've heard a lot of good things about them I heard are fantastic on chicken so what I'm gonna do for this one you know I know I usually sous-vide stuff and and then use the barbecue but today I'm not gonna do that I'm gonna just go ahead and dry brine this for a little bit and then we're gonna throw it on the pit barrel junior cooker to see how this turns out alright guys I got my whole Costco chicken out of the package rinse it off got all the guts and stuff out of it and what I'm gonna do with this cook today I'm gonna go ahead and keep it whole and just hang it so I'm gonna put this my my basic poultry rub which I'll put a put the ingredients down below it's pretty much kosher salt paprika onion powder garlic powder some Italian seasoning and that's about it just some savory stuff I like it I like the paprika makes it gives it a nice color and course of salt's gonna you know brine it some so that's what I'm gonna do I'm actually gonna dry brine this for about an hour and a half or so in the refrigerator with the with the rub on it and then we're going to go ahead and put it on the hanger throw it in the pit barrel cooker and see how this thing turns out so follow along with me guys I'll be right back waiting for that chicken to brine for a little bit before I throw it on I'm gonna go ahead and kind of show you what the pit barrel junior looks like here and if you're not familiar with the pit barrel cooker I'll leave a link down below this here is the junior model the regular full-size one is I think 32 or 36 inch barrel this one's a 14 inch barrel so this one's just a little bit smaller and it's kind of like the portable camper bring it to your campground bring it tailgating with you kind of size so this is what it looks like it's pretty basic comes with the horseshoe handles it's got a little stand on the bottom there holding it up off of the ground and it's just a barrel it's got some welded on spaces in there for your great does have a great that goes in it and there's not a whole lot of messing around with as far as vents go it's got that little vent on the bottom that you just set it once and leave it alone it goes by your altitude that you're you know have it out so you just leave it there and it's gonna you know the temp self-controls so it's got these little holes here for some rebar rods that I'm going to show you in a second this here is the lid that goes on top and it's got a little horseshoe handle on that as well comes with these rebar type rods and they slide right into these holes here as you can see this is what you hang your meat from your turkeys and chickens and ribs and pork butt actually hang from these rods and you get with this junior model you get six of these hooks to hook into your meat and they hang right on this rod I think with the full size when you get eight eight of these hooks and you can buy more if you need them I'm going to be using this this is the turkey slash chicken hanging rod where this is going to go through the chicken since we're going to do it whole and it's going to hang on the rod this is the ash charcoal bucket basket from the bottom and the way you like these is pretty particular and make sure you read the instructions when you get to buy one of these make sure you follow the instructions they also have videos on their website as well and then that's it takes just a couple minutes after that to get everything up and running and then you put your lid on and just let it cook and then it just goes so you don't have to worry about adjusting the temperature and events or anything like that this is the grate that comes with it so you can use it with smaller items like chicken wings pretty much anything you want to put on a grate to smoke with you can use it as a grill you can just leave the top off and let it get hot and just you know grill stuff on the hot open flame so I'm going to go ahead and in a minute I'm going to get this thing started and going but thought I'd show you that and the way we're going to light the fire starter today here the chimney is we're going to take some of these fire starters light them up and I just put the chimney right over it let the coals get up right about 12 minutes we're going to put the basket in the bottom put some pecan wood and we're going to dump the hot coals right on top let that go for a couple minutes and we're going to put our chicken in so all right guys well that's it like I said I'm real excited about this pit barrel cooker and hopefully we can use it on a few more of our different cooks I'll even try it with some sous vide stuff down the road so all right I'll be and I'm getting ready to throw this on and I'm going to throw it I'm going to hang it I'm going to hang this on the pit barrel junior so I got my chicken turkey hanger here and this kind of slides right in to kind of hang on to the rack this goes right up the chickens gullet so they're going to have to slide this up and this is going to kind of hold the chicken in place so this is how that's going to work I'm going to go ahead and hit the back of this one more time with some of the rub it's got a little spot here on the back and then we're just going to go hang this up that's 165 so I think we're about done I think I'm okay with 165 in the breast as the dark needs closer to the fire so I'm going to pull it all right all it's done got it out of the pit barrel cooker and it is pretty good looking here lots of color to it that's for sure you can't see that looks like the breast got pretty crispy there I'm going to go ahead and cut this open it's like it got a really good crispy skin see that leg it's really crispy looking and it is done all the way through that is for sure other leg off and some pretty crispy skin there get you guys up close to it so you can see see how crispy the skin is on the legs there I'm going to go ahead get into that wing get that off so I'm cut into this breast skin's coming off that is done that's for sure falling apart it's tender not quite as juicy as when I make it sous vide but it's pretty juicy compared to other barbecue cooks I've done so I guess now what I'm going to have to do is cook one of these sous vide and then finish it up on the pit barrel cooker see how that turns out but as you can tell guys it's it's juices coming out of all over the place here so it's pretty juicy got a really good crust on it really good skin and I'm going to cut this up for dinner now but I said I really tell when you when you taste a chicken in the breast if it's not really dried out and you did a good job so but so far I'm really impressed with this pit barrel cooker I think I'm going to probably do a turkey on it for Thanksgiving here soon so check it out guys check out the pit barrel cooker on their website below check out the recipe for the rub that I use and make sure you like this video follow us on Facebook on our group and our page follow us on Instagram I'll see you in the next video