Beer Can aka Beer Butt chicken
Beer Can aka Beer Butt chicken
A free-range chicken, seasoned with paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, white pepper, and cayenne.
A can of a fairly mild IPA shoved up its fundament (about a third of the can decanted into me first to prevent boilover).
Cooked at about 180'C in a Kamado cooker for roughly an hour and a half. The photo was taken at about the one hour mark.
Served with a creamy mac and cheese and a sharp, homemade coleslaw.
A nice end to the summer!
I'd be worried about the plastic coating in the can getting all up in your chicken's butt.
Yeah, here are the things about beer can chicken (lots of articles on this):
Bad
- The paint on the outside of the can isn't food grade
- Most cans have the plastic liner you mention, and that's nasty at high temps
- The beer and whatever herbs you put in it can smell good cooking, but almost none of it gets into the meat
Good That position is a good way to cook a chicken
So you're better off using a stand like OP has and skipping the can.
If anyone has doubts about this, here is a good science-based explanation of why beer can chicken is more myth than fact:
https://amazingribs.com/bbq-techniques-and-science/beer-can-chicken/
There was a show on the BBC a couple of weeks ago and they made a stand from a pineapple instead.
There was a show on the BBC a couple of weeks ago and they made a stand from a pineapple instead.
Is that a Meater sticking up?
It is indeed.
One of those rather useful and obviously silly products.
I love mine. My reverse sear game is much better since I picked one up.