Finally nailed it

tulocay

After a year of cooking on the egg, I finally nailed it. Not sure about the rest of you, but my family gets in a cooking rut. We cook the same things over and over again. I'm not sure if busy schedules, human nature or lazyiness is to blame. I'm not sure why it took so long, but I tried a Spatchcock Chicken last night for the first time. Cooked two chickens, 1 with Tsunami Spin and the other with Raging River. Cooked raised direct, 400 and no wood for smoke. I checked at 55 minutes and it was maybe 5 degrees over target. Took them out, let them rest and dug into the Tsunami Spin rubbed Chicken. Even SWMBO said wow, this chicken is really good. The picture doesn't show how moist it was. Like many before me, I will never cook Chicken any other way in the future.

minniemoh

Congrats on a your first spatchcock! Crazy good chicken for sure.

Buckdodger

minniemoh said:

Congrats on a your first spatchcock! Crazy good chicken for sure.

Healthy and good looking plate !!

cazzy

Great job! Love both of those rubs on chicken

jhl192

Congrats.  When you say raised, do you mean to the level of the gasket (Woo2) or above (AR)?  If above, how high?  

tulocay

I raise my cooking grid with fire bricks. The grid ends up about 1/2" - 1" above the felt line.

Skiddymarker

@tulocay - great chicken. Chicken parts cook just the same as a a spatched bird, not as nice looking, but still cook up great.  

@jhl192 anything at or above the felt line is considered raised, IMO. The idea with raised direct is to get some distance between the burning lump and the cooking grid, cooking the meat not burning it. How you get the grid at felt line is up to you, sitting on some fire bricks, beer cans, bolts, AR, Woo whatever.