Smoked Summer: How To Smoke Chicken Legs

I smoked chicken in several different ways this summer. Here’s what I learned.

Our goal at the beginning of the summer was to do more articles about smoking meats because Brian, Mike, and I all have smokers of one sort or another. I think we collectively did two articles. I did zero. Part of the reason for that is because my smoker was broke at the start of summer, and part is because I’m just lazy. We will rectify both of those problems now.

I went out to use my Masterbuilt Sportsman Elite smoker in May and noticed that it had shut off 30 minutes into it's warm up cycle. No matter what I did to fix it, it kept doing the same damned thing - before it even warmed up it would shut off. I bought…