Spice-Rubbed Picnic Chicken

Name: Spice-Rubbed Picnic Chicken
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 5 pounds, bone-in chicken pieces (split breasts, drumsticks, and/or thighs, breasts cut into 3 pieces if large or halved if small), trimmed; 3 tablespoons packed, brown sugar; 2 tablespoons, kosher salt; 2 tablespoons, chili powder; 2 tablespoons, paprika; 2 teaspoons, pepper; 1/4-1/2 teaspoon, cayenne pepper

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2006, America's Test Kitchen TV

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How do you give cold picnic chicken great flavor without flabby, sticky skin? As with James Bond's martinis, the secret is shaken, not stirred.

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a picnic chicken recipe that would be easy to pack (and eat), we threw out the idea of a sticky sauce, substituting a robust dry rub (brown sugar, chili powder, paprika, black pepper, and cayenne) that reproduced the flavors of a good b...

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