Reply to "Freezing Smoked Chicken"

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I always point to FSIS for these questions. Read about "freezer" safety for the official answer.

FSIS Freeze safety

My thoughts.

If you're doing chicken parts, they don't freeze well after cooking and then reheat (did you say boil?)

The taste and texture just aren't the same.

If I'm doing that, I would do whole chicken breasts, smoke them, take them and slice them and seal them not in storage bags but a food safer. I pre-cut only because of time savings.

I would do them the day of or the day before and chill them only. You could freeze the butts or briskets and have a better reheat than poultry parts.

If you have to freeze them, whole birds need to be parted out.

I do take chicken, debone it and freeze it, but we make chicken and dumplings or chicken tacos or other stuff with shredded chicken.

8/28/068:18 AM

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