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    Default Beer chicken

    Any other fans of this idiot-proof way of cooking a chicken on a grill? My effort last night was picture perfect, thanks to a few new idea taken from the PBS show "America's Test Kitchen."

    1. Use a drip pan and put the coals on either side of this.
    2. Orient the standing upright bird with the wings facing the coals.
    3. Try putting a bay leaf into the beer can before ramming same up the chicken's body cavity.

    What I couldn't try this time was water-soaked wood chips, wrapped in foil, to generate steam. The grocery doesn't sell wood suitable for cooking. Oh well. Summer has just started. Next time!

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    Beer butt chicken!
    I don't have a grill, but I've cooked it in the oven. Good results.

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    I love chicken this way! How do you have the wings facing the coals? When I do it, the wings are at the top of the bird and I use the legs to help prop the chicken upright on top of the can. It is also pretty tasty to quarter a lemon and put as much of it as you can in the neck cavity of the chicken. The woodchips don't add steam as much as they add a nice smokiness to the chicken. Instead of wrapping them in foil, you can also just sprinkle some on the coals after you have soaked the chips.

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    I've never tried this but everyone raves about how good it is. I definately want to try it this summer, though. (Oh, and I got my wood chips at Home Depot.) I grilled up some poppers tonight that were damn tasty:

    16 mini sweet peppers (sliced lengthwise and gutted)
    6oz of shredded jack and mild white cheddar cheese
    1/4 c. chopped red onion
    1 chopped tomato (gutted)
    1/2 tsp salt
    1/4 c. chopped cilantro

    stuff peppers with the cheese, onion, tomato, salt, cilantro mix and grill medium-high for 3-5 minutes. Put a dollop of sour cream on them and enjoy.

    I guess that was sort of a hijack. But they'd make a good side for the chicken so there. :p
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    My stepfather makes this stuff. It tastes good but I don't like to see it cooking. Something about the way the chicken has to stand upright with its wings in the air reminds me of Richard Nixon with no head, exclaiming, "I am not a crook." It bugs me. I'll eat the dead animals occasionally but I don't want to see them standing up and spread-eagled with no head.

    Tastes good though.

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    Cooking meat like this tastes really good, same as beef with whiskey, shrimp with wine, etc.. really brings out the flavor!

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