Help!! I burned my jerk chicken. What to do??

Unknown · April 2007

I adapted a jerk chicken recipe for a conventional oven to the big green egg. I cooked at around 400 deg F if i remember correctly. The jerk sauce/marinade had sugar, seasonings, ketchup and pickapeppa sauce in it. The chicken skin ended up completely burnt! Also, I used the fish accessory metal dish with a little foil around it for cooking. I did punch holes through the foil.[p]Should I cook the chicken longer at a lower temperature?[p]What should the chicken sit in while cooking? A baking tin? The chicken marinades in the sauce. I assume that it is bad for the sauce to drip down on the flames.[p]What else??[p]Thank you in advance from a relatively new big green egg user from New York City!

Car Wash Mike · April 2007

Chef JJ,
A conventional oven is baking, your cooking direct. Indirect with a plate setter should do the same as the oven.[p]Mike

Retired RailRoader · April 2007

Chef JJ,
Greeting from Long Island. Where in NYC are you from?

Midnight Smoker · May 2007

Chef,
Looks like the sugars are burning.....the straight sugar and the sugar in the ketsup. Paul

tach18k · May 2007

Chef JJ,
Well from what I remember from Kingston,Jamaica, they did theirs on an open flame, cut down the middle and layed out flat, turned over every so often. El Pollo Loco Style. No baking there

Help!! I burned my jerk chicken. What to do??

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