no worries
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I change the wood with the meat...but chicken will take a lot of salt as as well a robust wood.
You soak legs and thighs 12 hours, you do not cook them 12 hours....did you get confused?
I try different wood with every piece of meat, cherry, apple, hickory, maple, oak, the only one I haven't is mesquite.
That is strong, even when I combined it with hickory, I don't even bother with mesquite any more.