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Any difference between spatchcock and split half chickens?
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Cookbook_Chip
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i always spatchcock since that's how I learned from y'all. But I cut it up after cooking- so any difference doing split halves instead?
Lovin' my Large Egg since May 2012 (Richmond, VA)
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Not much difference“There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body.”
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Yea...half a chicken
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I haven't tried it, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't turn out just like spatched chick.
http://www.nakedwhiz.com/halfc.htm
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Spatchcock, leap frog and chicken halves will cook almost identical as long as each is laying flat.
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The advantage of cooking halves instead of leap frog or spatchcock is you can fit more of them on the cooking grid.Location- Just "this side" of Biloxi, Ms.
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Half is how I do chickens now that we are just the two of us. They cook the same as whole spatchcock chicken
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Thanks guys. My thinking was halved seemed easier to move than the full chicken flopping around. Trying halves today!Lovin' my Large Egg since May 2012 (Richmond, VA) ... and makin' cookbooks at https://FamilyCookbookProject.com
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I have started cooking the leg quarters, wings and breast halves in lieu of spatching.
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