How long to smoke chicken drumsticks at 275
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Smoked Chicken drumsticks are great to cook on your smoker since they are delicious, inexpensive and cook fast. You can easily put a batch of legs on your bbq pit when you get home from work and have them ready to eat for dinner.
Smoked Chicken legs are pretty forgiving on the smoker and you don’t have to do much to make them delicious.
I wanted to share the cook times I use for smoking legs at two different temperatures.
Smoking chicken Times at 275 and 325F
Picking the right temperature to smoke legs is a balancing act.
When you cook them at really low temperatures like 225F you will end up with meat that is more tender and it will have a stronger smoke flavor simply because it will stay in your bbq pit longer.
When you cook them at higher temperatures like 325F the skin will have a better texture and you get to eat sooner 🙂
I prefer to cook legs at high temps.
I wanted to be able to share some precise cooking temperatures for you so I smoked two batches of drumsticks, one at 275F and the other at 325F.
FYI…I picked 275F as one of the cooking tempe
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