Ok, so, if the chicken's skin isn't really great & tasty like the meat of the chicken should be, here are some new questions I have (probably non-issues, but I've gotta ask). So...you've smoked your chicken, skin on. The skin has a nice smokey color, grill marks (which I consider a bonus in the aesthetics department), etc., what's going to happen to all of that when you remove the skin? OBCH: how much cayenne powder (all out of fresh cayenne, no garden so far this year due to $$$ issues) should I add for a moderately spicy (not hot, as such ... just spicy) chicken? Should I add it to the marinade, the sauce, or both? Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | 1) "Smoking habanero powder helps defeat that < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | off taste' quite nicely." spooky130u@gmail.com | 2) "I figure a couple bong hits of [habanero] ICBM/Hurr.: 30.56226N / | powder would defeat just about anything!" 86.52008W | --seen in Chile-Heads list