Essentially you are trying to time it so the bacon only cooks for 2hrs max. After that the bacon will start to turn too dark. You can do a search for approximate smoke times for your size of bird and subtract an hour and a half from the total cook time, that will give you how long you should smoke before the wrap. Let me know how it turns out!
You should add chicken stock to the recipe. I checked the recipe to make sure I had all the ingredients a few days ago, but after watching the video again, I just realized you added chicken stock too. Do you cover with foil the entire time? It looked like when you initially put it in, there was no foil, but when you did the first baste, there was already foil.
Thanks for the heads up, sorry about that! I lightly tent the bird with foil the whole time. In my stick burner, the top of the bird gets blasted with heat/smoke traveling to the stack, the tent just makes the color a little more even and keeps it from getting too dark.
Haha, good eye! I have two full bottles and an empty bottle that I drank. The empty bottle gets refilled with Buffalo Trace for those that don't know the difference! 😜
