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Title: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: Asherdan on May 20, 2013, 04:02:47 pm

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Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: Arachno-capitalist on May 20, 2013, 04:47:09 pm

I've done this a few times and its delicious. Super-Bonus: Practically no clean-up required.
What did you do to the skin if anything?

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: AugustWest on May 20, 2013, 07:34:55 pm

Hell, I used to have a little ceramic deal to use instead of a beer can.  It was shaped like a beer can at the top, then flared out to a wider base so as to give your poultry a firmer foundation, as it were.  I should look for that thing.  Or buy some beer.  Or something.

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: Carlos del Vaca on July 30, 2013, 06:07:43 pm

I spatchcocked (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01182008) and grilled a bird over the weekend. It came out OK, but I have been thinking I haven't done the beer can thing in a while. Good call.

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: pmcd9 on July 30, 2013, 07:03:01 pm

Have never heard of Spatchcooked chicken. Sounds interesting. And that beer can bird looks absolutely perfect.

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: nephilim8 on August 15, 2013, 02:23:56 pm

It means butchering a bird by cutting out its backbone and flattening it. It's how we grill birds for most of our company meals. Where'd you grow up?

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: Choop on August 15, 2013, 02:42:59 pm

oh i pulled a spatchcock last weekend, made a quick rub using a bunch of things but most importantly and for the first time ever, coffee (ground super-fine with mortar & pestle). it added a damned fine layer of complexity to the finished meat. anybody else ever tried it?

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: Carlos del Vaca on August 15, 2013, 05:52:05 pm

I've used a coffee rub on steak before. Don't think I've ever tried it with chicknnzzzz.

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: pmcd9 on August 16, 2013, 03:18:01 am

Quote from: nephilim8 on August 15, 2013, 02:23:56 pm

It means butchering a bird by cutting out its backbone and flattening it. It's how we grill birds for most of our company meals. Where'd you grow up?

I grew up in Houston Texas and in our family we just cut the birds in half when we went to grillin'.

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: KeithHernandez on August 16, 2013, 04:15:09 am

I grew up in Oklahoma (and knew the type of people who would know how to grill some shit.  For instance, I have had deer prepared in at least ten ways.  Our neighbors killed their own cows and rabbits.  So did my family for a bit.) and have never heard of this spatchcook either.

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: nephilim8 on August 16, 2013, 02:03:24 pm

Also, it's spatchcock. (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01182008) I should have add the quotes to make it obvious I was quoting.

Title: Re: Beer Can Chicken
Post by: pmcd9 on August 16, 2013, 03:00:10 pm

I'm old, that's my excuse.