Smoked Lemon Pepper Chicken Recipe | Lemon Pepper Chicken Thighs on the @Char-Griller 980

Hey, welcome to Grill & Smoke Barbecue. I'm Jeffrey. I guess you could say I'm back from my holiday vacay from YouTube. And now it's time to start 2022 off. And we're going to start 2022 with a real simple and easy cook. We're just going to do some lemon pepper chicken thighs on the Char-Grill Gravity 980. I'm not going to over-talk it. Let's do it. So as I said, we're going to be doing some chicken thighs. I got these from my local H-E-B. And like I said, it's going to be quick and easy. So let me show you just how quick and easy it's going to be. So we're going to coat these with some spray oil. I'm using canola oil. This is going to be used as our binder. The oil should also help crisp up the skin as it's cooking. And you can just grab your whatever favorite lemon pepper seasoning, or you can make some at home yourself. Really, however you want to do it. And this is going to be your basic backyard cook. So I'm not going to sit and trim these. I'm just going to do them exactly how they came just to show y'all how easy this can be. Then we're going to flip it and do the same with the other side. All right, that part's done. I'm going to let this sit for a minute while I'm getting the Char-Griller Ravity 980 up to temp. We're going to put it on there. See you at the grill. Okay, so grill is up to 350. I'm just going to sit this in here. And I'm going to check back on these in about 20 minutes. Okay, so we're 20 minutes in. I'm going to take a look. So what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to spray this with some spray butter. This will help the skin. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to flip it over as well. We let it go for another 20 minutes. Okay, it's been 20 more minutes, total of 40 minutes. We're going to spray this again with some spray butter and we're going to flip it again. We're going to give them about 20 more minutes after this and they should be done. All right, so we've been on a total of an hour. I'm going to go ahead and check the temp. We're at 168, 158, 166. I like to get my thighs to 180, 185. So I'm going to let these go a little bit longer. Hey, welcome back. The cook is finished now. It took me 80 minutes or an hour and 20 minutes to get to the 185 temp for these thighs. I let them sit for a few minutes because I don't want to burn my face off while I do my taste test. So I'm not going to hold y'all up any longer. Let's go on and get to that taste test real quick. So as you can see, got some juice running off. So we're about to find out how good this chicken is. Let's go ahead and give this a taste. Man, that is good. Love lemon pepper. As you can see though, the skin, perfect. Bite through, not rubbery at all. That's what happens when you do the spray butter and stuff at the right times. Makes that skin great. But all I can say now is thank y'all for joining me today. 2022 is going to be a great year, hopefully, for this channel. And we make things happen. Try to give some more giveaways, like follow up on that Christmas giveaway I just did. And if you're new to the channel, thank you for stopping by. If you're already subscribed, thank you for coming back. But if you are new, go ahead and take a moment, hit that subscribe button, hit the bell so you get notified when I put out new content, and hit that thumbs up for your new subscriber, old subscriber, or thinking about subscribing. It helps the channel when you do that. Outside of that, I just want to say thank you. Have a happy 2022. And I'll see you next time. I'm out. Peace.