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Spatchcock Chicken for dinner

bigjoe

bigjoe

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whenever Time is running late for dinner, I sometimes opt to do a spatchcock Chicken.

Take a whole chicken, cut out the back bone. Flatten by breaking the sternum.
Season. Put on the grill will legs towards the heat. The dark meat takes longer to cook. 1-1.5 hrs. At 325-350 and bird is done.

The idea is that white meat and the dark meat cook differently, and get done at different times. This tends to get all the meat ready at the same time.
 
bigjoe said:
whenever Time is running late for dinner, I sometimes opt to do a spatchcock Chicken.

Take a whole chicken, cut out the back bone. Flatten by breaking the sternum.
Season. Put on the grill will legs towards the heat. The dark meat takes longer to cook. 1-1.5 hrs. At 325-350 and bird is done.

The idea is that white meat and the dark meat cook differently, and get done at different times. This tends to get all the meat ready at the same time.
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I was following you until legs toward the heat. Do you have a pic?

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I do not have a pict.

Use indirect heat on the grill.

If using a gas grill turn off several burners, put the chicken bird cavity side down in the cool side with the drumsticks/legs facing the heat.

If using charcoal do the same thing just bank your coals to one side.

Put the legs toward the heat. The bird cooks very evenly.
 
AB41A8E7-94F9-4D24-982C-E83C26AAEADA.jpeg I remembered; Here is a pict of a bird I did back in the summer.

This one I smoked for about 2 hrs.

Turkeys come out fabulous like this.

You can do birds in the oven like this also.
 
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