Beer Can Chicken on the BBQ!

[BeatleBoot]

Using Foster's Bitter today...

Anyone else got the grill goin' ?????

[Champ]

1. Ribs and Pizza for lunch!!

Mmmmmm :9

[Champ]

4. and some yellow cake

[Mika]

2. MMMMmmm.. Aluminium oxided and blue inked chicken

My fav. :9

[BeatleBoot]

5. That would be Green Ink..

It's Foster's Bitter. It comes in a green can.

Green ink tastes better than blue ink. :9

IMHO
:9

:beer:

[ewagner]

3. I need a boat

to get to my grill...........back yard is a swamp.....no outdoor cooking for me today......

[Bertha Venation]

6. tonight, NY strips for dinner & a pork loin for the week's dinners...

What's/how does one make beer can chicken? Sounds intriguing....

[BeatleBoot]

8. Take a whole chicken....

Season it up....maybe rub some olive oil all over...

Get a can of beer (I use the bigger cans you can buy as a single can - see Foster's Bitter)

Drinnk half of it. (Notice the extra "n" in "drink") :D

And place the entire chicken atop the remaining beer and can. That is, place the beer can inside the body cavity.

It should and will stand upright. Place it on the grill for about 1.5 hours at 350 degrees F. Internal temp s/b like 180 degrees (check your cookbook).

The beer that is left in the can "bastes" the chicken as it cooks.

Also known as a "wet smoke".

:beer:

[Bertha Venation]

9. boy, that sounds good, but

what about the cooked aluminum? Fumes a danger? Vaporized paint a danger? Humor me, don't call me paranoid, I'm just curious.

[BeatleBoot]

10. No biggie! Check out these recipes!

They are from Food TV (Cable TV that brings you Emeril, Bobby Flay, et cetera).

http://web.foodnetwork.com/food/web/searchResults?searchString=Beer+Can+Chicken&site=FOOD&searchType=Recipe&GoSearch.x=22&GoSearch.y=13

[soothsayer]

12. Nah, that paint is foodsafe ink

I LOVE beer can chicken! I use a standard 4-4 rub (papriika, salt, black pepper, and brown sugar). Rub some on the outside of the chicken, sprinkle some inside the cavity, and some inside the beer can (after you drink half the beer). Makes the best tasting chicken skin you've ever had in your life.

ONly tricky part is getting the hot can out of the hot chicken at the end. Some folks use a beer can chicken holder. You can even get a 4 bird beer can holder---Buster's chicken roost---from www.drunkchicken.com!

Lots of onesies and twosies on the market as well:
www.beercanchickenroaster.com
www.barbecuestore.com (willie's chicken sitter)
www.hollandgrill.com
www.chickenup.com
www.unclejoes.com

All this courtesy of Steven Raichlen's "Beer-Can Chicken (and 74 other offbeat recipes for the grill)"

I'm doing a beer can duck later this week. You use a tall boy can for that.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Gonna do a sirloin

Soaked in my own marinade, and smoked in hickory. I'll roast a potato too.

[Elidor]

11. You really have to wonder how it came about...

I picture a drunken redneck sitting around with his buddies. "You know, guys, ah thank ah'm a gonna git me a can a beer and shove it up a chicken's asshole! And then ah'm gonna stick it inna oven fer awhile. Yeah...that's a-whut ah'm a gonna do...."

[soothsayer]

13. I should be smoking a brisket and ribs right now, but I'm waiting for

a new bbq rub to arrive. Hope it's here tomorrow! It's a fairly small (5 lb) brisket, so should take 8 to 10 hours in the trusty ol' smoker. I can hardly wait. Sure hope that rub's worth waiting for...!

www.texasbbqrub.com, if anyone's interested. I've never tried it. Usually make my own rubs, but I'm willing to try as it was highly recommended on a BBQ site.

[BeatleBoot]

14. I'll hit that web site

I have a smoker, too. Plenty fun.

Never cooked a duck though. I'll bet its great smoked since it's a fatty foul...

[DemoTex]

15. Rain-out today. I was going to smoke a butt (Boston butt).

However, I do love the beer-can method for BBQ chicken.

We ended up eating a very good vegetable dinner: corn-on-the cob, collard greens, fried okra, black-eyed peas, sliced cucumber and onion chilled in diluted vinegar, steaming cornbread sticks, and fresh iced-tea with backyard mint.