grilled whole chicken

Kracker Jack · #1 10-10-2012, 06:09 PM

Season a normal roaster chicken to your taste then split it down the back leaving the breast side up then smash it flat. Put aluminum foil on the grill and cook till almost done then remove foil and finish the cooking process on open grill grated. It is awesome!!!!! I've been doing my chickens like this for about 5 years. And if ya really want to add some flavor cook it on a charcoal grill.

macojoe · #2 10-16-2012, 10:40 AM

Looks great!! I am going to try smoking some chicken soon. Getting cold around here and out door cooking will be packed up till spring soon except a steak now again on the grill. :(

Blue_Runner · #3 10-16-2012, 02:32 PM

I do that a lot on the smoker except I go ahead and cut it in half. Probably about 4 hours at 225 F. It is done when you lift up on that leg and it almost pulls apart. Chicken is very forgiving. Don't necesarrily have to season it at all but I like salt, pepper, and a generous helping of Old Bay.

Sometimes I'll do it on my Holland grill and turn the heat down to simulate the smoker. At least twice I've started it around 7 pm and fallen asleep on the couch.......only to wake up at 2 or 3 AM and go.....OH SH1T!!!!!!!!!
Believe it or not most was still edible, but a tad over done!!! At least I didn't burn the house down. LOL

I like the way you split it and left it attached. That's going in my book of tricks.

CaptJ · #4 10-17-2012, 11:56 AM

I've been doing my chickens like that for years too. I believe it is called "spatchcocked". I also wrap a brick in tinfoil and let it warm up with the grill. Then place the brick on top of the chicken. The hot brick aids in the cooking time and even cooking. You can see a lot of videos on UTube for this.

Blue_Runner · #5 10-17-2012, 03:09 PM

Oh man, why'd you have to tell me that word......now I'm gonna spend hours on youtube looking up spatchcock videos.

No seriously, this helps ALOT.

Kracker Jack · #6 10-17-2012, 03:59 PM

It's mice split like that. All meat is up also and easily removed for servings, even those nice little tasty oyster plugs are easily found!!

Blue_Runner · #7 10-22-2012, 12:16 PM

I spatchcocked 2 birds this weekend on the smoker! Along with about 30 some chicken wings. On the smoker at 4:15 pm and off at 8 pm or a little after. When I went to pick one of the spatchcocked birds up the leg and thigh portion fell off.....other than that little pfffft it was great!

I used the word "spatchcock" pretty liberally all afternoon... Even threatened to spatchcock a few people....no one knew what the hell I was talking about