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Beer can Chicken or Not

Chad4ua1717
Chad4ua1717 Posts: 6
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Hey guys, I was wondering how you prefer to cook a whole 5lb chicken, just lay it on its back or go vertical?
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  • Ladeback69
    Ladeback69 Posts: 4,484
    Spatchcock!  Cut the backbone out, flatten it and cook either direct or indirect a 350 to 400.
    XL, WSM, Coleman Road Trip Gas Grill

    Kansas City, Mo.
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Ladeback69 said:
    Spatchcock!  Cut the backbone out, flatten it and cook either direct or indirect a 350 to 400.
    This. More even cook, takes less time too. The only way I cook whole birds. Oh, and save the backbone for the next time you make chicken stock.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • onionlips
    onionlips Posts: 17
    Carolina Q said:
    ...  and save the backbone for the next time you make chicken stock.
    I just did this this week!  Spatchcock, then reserved a bit of the chicken meat and parlayed the bird into chicken noodle soup using the carcass for stock.  ... Nailed it.

    I was a beercan chicken guy on my gasser for years until I "discovered" the spatchcock. 

    Deadhead gone Egghead
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  • Chubbs
    Chubbs Posts: 6,929
    No
    Columbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
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  • volfan1
    volfan1 Posts: 167
    No. I spatchcock as well, but I prefer to cut my chicken into halves. It gives me a little more flexibility on space, cook time, etc.
    XL & Mini-max & knock off medium. Western North Carolina. Formerly Franklin, TN. Formerly in Palm Harbor, FL. 
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  • shtgunal3
    shtgunal3 Posts: 6,134
    Ladeback69 said:
    Spatchcock!  Cut the backbone out, flatten it and cook either direct or indirect a 350 to 400.
    I do this. Raised direct at gasket level. Should be done in right around an hour +/-.

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