Swamp Gas Chicken

This had been intended to be Ginger Ale Chicken, but after I mixed the mix, it looked like something out of a swamp, so I opted to run with that.  Anyways, I'd been planning on using my crockpot for a while, and one of the things it does well is shredded chicken.  Also beer brats.  I might have remade the beer brats, but with the onion on bottom, and including the pepper on top.  The onion actually cooked this time, but the pepper sorta dissolved.  Anyways, back to the chicken.

Ingredients:

1 package Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

1 12oz bottle of Ginger Ale

1 tblspoon Chili Powder

1 tblspoon Ground Cumin

1 tblspoon Ground Mustard

1 tblspoon Minced Garlic

Instructions:

Mix spices into ginger ale

Place chicken into a crock pot

Pour swamp gas mixture over the chicken

Cook on Low for 8 hours

Remove chicken from the crockpot and shred with a potato smasher

This turned out better than I'd expected.  The swamp gas mixture gave the chicken a slightly sweet flavor, with a bit of a kick to go along with it.  Despite the shredding of the chicken, it was still a bit drier than I'd been hoping, but this was probably due to the fact that I didn't add it back to the crockpot after I'd shredded it.  On the subject of shredding it, the potato masher did an exemplary job of shredding the chicken.  It was a bit slow going at first, but after progressing past the "skin" that formed around the chicken after stewing  for several hours, it was easy going.  By the end of the mashing, it had a granularity somewhere between where I start fork shredding and when I finish fork shredding, but it also took considerably less time, so I'd say this is a pretty solid shredding methodology.