Boiling point

Snuffy

I screwed up my cook tonight. I cooked chicken 370 I thought for 1 hour and they were REALLY to done. I think I'll check my themometer. Whats the boiling point of water in North Alabama??? I was really diapointed in tonights results but the chicen was halves and they were small so I may have just misjudged it. I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and use the Maverick.

Mike in Abita

Depends on the elevation. Check link http://www.csgnetwork.com/h2oboilcalc.html it's extremely scientific but a few degrees more or less won't matter in the egg. I'd just go 100 C. 212 F.

Grandpas Grub

Aproximatily -1 degree per 500 feet above sea level.

Follow the instructions for your exact boiling point temp.

http://www.thermoworks.com/software/bpcalc.html

gg

Pharmeggist

Hey Snuffy,
I live close to the Capitol city of alabama. It sounds like the cook was a little to long for chicken halves. I have a better idea for your next chicken cook if you follow it you should have awesome results. I used to use a vertical roaster until I tried this out.
~Pharmeggist

Click on link:
http://www.nakedwhiz.com/spatch.htm

P.S. Buy a Thermapen it takes the guess work out of checking temps too! :woohoo:

Grandpas Grub

Snuffy,

You will much better results if you get an instant read thermometer (thermopen), which several people on the forum advised me in the early stages of my egg cooking.

I tried a lot of different thermometers and finally bought what I was told to buy. It made a huge imporvment with my cooking on the egg and off the egg.

With a whole chicken 370° to 400° at 1 hour is about right. I cook raised grid and it doesn't matter if the chicken is spatchcock (best tasting) whole on the grid or on a chicken vertical stand.

GG

[Deleted User]

Dude,

WMK and I added a BP calculator to this site a while back... its on the cookbook menu...

http://www.greeneggers.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=88

Grandpas Grub

Thank you.

gg