This Smoked Spatchcock Chicken comes out super juicy and delicious. A great way to cook a whole chicken at once, this post give you step by step instructions for smoking on your wood pellet grill or smoker to make it easy to understand. Includes a video!
Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time 4 hours hours
Brining Time 8 hours hours
Total Time 12 hours hours 20 minutes minutes
- As previously stated, this recipe uses Diamond Crystal kosher salt (Amazon affiliate link). If you have a different kind of salt, such as Morton’s kosher salt or table salt, read this article on the different types of salt and measurements by Cook’s Illustrated to help you figure out how much of each salt to use.
- Clear a spot in your fridge for the chicken before you start to dry brine it! If you started with a frozen chicken and thawed it in the fridge you likely already have a good spot, but it’s best to double check before you begin so your chicken isn’t sitting out on the counter while you rearrange your fridge.
- Check the temperature of the chicken in multiple spots before you take it off the grill or smoker to make sure all parts are cooked. We use our Thermapen meat thermometer to do this at it gives a fast and highly accurate reading so we’re not losing as much heat with the lid of our Traeger open.