Icefever Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 About doing a beer can chicken ever again??? https://amazingribs.com/debunking-beer-can-chicken-waste-good-beer-inferior-cooking-technique-and-dangerous Ice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Yes, beer can chicken is more of a fun method rather than the most efficient. Half of the enjoyment of cooking BBQ chicken is the smell of it as it cooks but for added flavour you need to apply herbs/flavours directly onto the meat. Even then the flavours will only penetrate a few millimetres without being given a considerable time to marinate. Cooking the chicken vertically does help to cook it more evenly (especially around the thigh area) and it does help to crisp the skin. Rather than using a beer can (for all of the reasons stated in the excellent article) you are best to use a vertical chicken roaster. These keep the chicken vertical but also keep the cavity of the chicken open so that it cooks from the inside as well as outside. I use the one on the left when I cook BBQ chicken and it keeps the cavity of my turkey open too when I am cooking horizontally it on the BBQ at Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Pretty cool. Best I have done is buttermilk rotisserie chicken in the past. But I tend not to do chicken on bbq these days. Too easy to get wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icefever Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 I'm afraid we went a bought a stainless steel "cup" one will now get one like the above .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokin Monkey Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I got one a few years back from The Range. Think they might be selling them off at Homebase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor72 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 (edited) I cook chicken all the time on Bbq . Never had a problem with being cooked . The beer can contraption doesn’t actually fit a proper beer can in . I’m looking for anything like the ones above . Edited September 24, 2018 by Raptor72 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 14 hours ago, Raptor72 said: I cook chicken all the time on Bbq . Never had a problem with being cooked . The beer can contraption doesn’t actually fit a proper beer can in . I’m looking for anything like the ones above . They are designed for the older Heinekin size small cans. The cans that do fit these are the ready mixed drinks like JD and cola and also many of the soft drink cans like Coke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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