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Spatchcock Chicken w/ Bacon Drippings

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GreenWave36
GreenWave36 Posts: 132
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I was thinking of trying to spatchcock a couple of chickens, and putting a second grid above it with some thick cut bacon. The idea would be to get the flavoring of the bacon drippings onto the chicken.  I realize I would need to cook this indirect to catch a lot of the drippings to avoid excesss smoke, possibly put some potatoes or something similar in a drip pan below the chicken.  Has anyone done anything like this?  
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  • SoCalTim
    SoCalTim Posts: 2,158
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    Yes, that would work just fine, let your imagination be your guide, but how about this, beer can style chicken with a pan (like in the picture)  wrap the chicken with bacon,  add potatoes, carrots etc in the pan .. just a thought.
    I've slow smoked and eaten so much pork, I'm legally recognized as being part swine - Chatsworth Ca.
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    I cook potatoes and/or veggies under chicken all the time and it turns out really good.  I can only imagine how good it would be with bacon on top!  

    Dare I say...my only concern would be too much fat...but that just means you need lots of potatoes. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • finster
    finster Posts: 136
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    Bacon rain. Yum. 
    MBGE in Charleston

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  • Hawg Fan
    Hawg Fan Posts: 1,517
    edited September 2015
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    Fry the bacon first and save the drippings, then use the drippings to baste your chicken. You have more control this way and it serves as a binder for your rub if you baste pre-cook.

    Any road will take you there if you don't know where you're going.

    Terry

    Rockwall, TX
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
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    +1 @Hawg Fan ,hate to say.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
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    Hawg Fan said:
    Fry the bacon first and save the drippings, then use the drippings to baste your chicken. You have more control this way and it serves as a binder for your rub if you baste pre-cook.
    What a buzz kill......

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
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    Peachtree Corners, GA
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