How to Smoke Chicken Breast That Doesn't SUCK

No more dry chicken! Follow along with my easy process on how to smoke chicken breast, and you'll slice into juicy meat every time.
This video shows how to smoke chicken breast on a pellet grill, but the process will be the same if you use an offset or charcoal grill.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:45 Prepping the Chicken
01:55 1st Phase of Smoking
03:04 Wrapping the Chicken
05:50 2nd Phase of Smoking
06:55 Unwrapping & Slicing
07:56 Tasting
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[@ChilesandSmoke]

We make these every week! Let me know if you try this out.

[@nickp806]

How your channel doesnt have much more subscribers is beyond me. Great instructional video

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Thank you! I gotta start somewhere haha

[@LearningtoSmokeBBQ]

Wrapping with butcher paper and butter looks like a game changer! Gonna try it.

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Heck yeah!

[@Hidan056]

I honestly don’t even own a grill or a smoker but I remake a lotta your recipes on the cast iron. Really enjoying this channel keep up the quality content

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Hey that’s awesome! Any recipe you’d like to see?

[@vidalmcneal4837]

Tried your method on 4th of July, it worked absolutely great and the chicken was delicious. Thanks for posting this video.

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Heck yeah that's great! Thanks for the feedback

[@scottevans9155]

Going to try this on weekend, Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Hope you enjoy!!

[@user-fp8sh4eo8k]

I tried this method with the chicken , but i marinated it with spices and yoghurt. It turned out to be excellent. It was soft ,juicy, and tasty👌. I always burn the chicken and become damn hard, but not this time. Thanks, you are doing great man👏

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Oh heck yeah! That combo sounds so good 🔥

[@jason6070]

man i just got my first pellet smoker and completely failed my first chicken breast, giving this a try this week. Thanks!

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Keep me posted!

[@tinam4353]

Can you give more info on the brining process?

[@beka4780]

Man, all your videos are so delicious 👍 Greetings Bernd

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Thank you SO MUCH

[@TWC6724]

Damn, this looks delicious. Going to try this. Would the method be the same for a Turkey breast?

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Yes it would! Timing will change but the process is the same

[@ChoppaMate]

Looks good!, Whats was the overall cook time?

[@ChilesandSmoke]

About 70-80 minutes or so depending on size of the chicken breast. Organic ones cook faster, they are smaller.

[@kisoshi898]

Can you get the internal chicken juicy by using a cooking syringe?

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Injecting? Yes it’s possible, but the outside tends to still dry out if you don’t wrap it.

[@kisoshi898]

@ChilesandSmoke I plan on doing everything the same way except I'm going to try injection

[@1lbcrudy]

Can this process be done with a whole chicken? Thanks.

[@ChilesandSmoke]

This works best for chicken breasts, as they are typically quite dry. I haven’t wrapped a whole chicken in butcher paper, it has the bones and skin to help keep the meat moist.

[@th3v01c3s]

So this was an epic failure for me, I seasoned and let sweat for 30-40 minutes maybe closer to an hour. at 225 Super Smoke on my Ironwood 885, the 6 pieces hit 120ish in roughly 30 minutes. NOTE def didn't look "done". Then moving forward with wrap in peach paper 2 slivers of butter and place back on for another 15ish minutes most were at the 150+ range. After allowing them to rest unwrapped and was met with very wet no color chicken breast. No crust just liquid and the chicken on the inside was not as moist as your samples. Not sure what I missed, I air dried the breasts now they weren't as big as the ones you had however they were a good size. I didnt even think of taking a picture cause i was so disgusted in the results.

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Next time try a higher temp initially, such as 250. I’ve tested this recipe using 3 different pellet grills, but not a Traeger.

[@alliej7042]

You said the fist round of smoking took you 45min. Roughly how long did the second round take? How often did you check your temp the second round? Thanks for your help! Was planning on making brisket for a family's gathering, but the 12-month-old was up till 3am, so change of plans I wasn’t expecting! 🤦‍♀️

[@ChilesandSmoke]

Second round is roughly 30 minutes. I checked after 20, and used the same hole to monitor. Just don't poke through all the way!

[@alliej7042]

Thank you so much!!

[@spanthrax]

you always cook to temp not time.

[@ChilesandSmoke]

@@spanthrax exactly!

[@justreallybored6014]

The entire reason I eat chicken breast is to be healthy...no butter.

[@ChilesandSmoke]

You can skip it!

[@badova123]

Butter is healthy foo

[@wwjj64]

Where is the smoker? Thats an outdoor oven

[@ChilesandSmoke]

🤡