What's on the Grill #82 - Florida Edition
Beer Butt Chicken! There are two problems I continue to run into with my grilling adventures: timing and timing. My Dad has his own problem: buying too much food. Last night, both of these shortcomings took center stage. Dinner started late and we had way too much. Fortunately, neither had any affect on a great meal.
Dad initially thought we would truss the chickens and grill them indirect on gas. No can do. Let's stick them on cans. The biggest plus was Dad breaking in the new lid for his One Touch Kettle. He recently purchased a Performer lid to take advantage of the thermometer holder and rubber grommeted vent. The OTK has neither and the grommetless vent has resulted in several burns over the years...to both of us.
I put together a rub of paprika, salt, ground pepper, granulated garlic, rosemary and grated lemon zest. The beer? Well this is vacation, so we used cans of Corona partly in honor of sun drenched panhandle vacationers and partly in salute that InBev has yet to buy them too.
When it came time to ready the cans, I was already covered in chicken so I had to enlist my sister, Anne, to help me drink the cans down a little. It was process that worked fairly well. Unfortunately, my hand signals, much like basic traffic signals, fooled her for awhile. But at the end, we were successful.
There was some worry that the chickens would not fit under the kettle lid. None to worry, they did. One hour and twenty minutes later, the chickens were registering done. This left me just enough time to have a little fun. I can't remember the last time I had two beer butt chickens side to side. So, a few ideas jumped into my mind:
Limbo Chickens
Vacationing Chickens
High Fiving Chickens was on the drawing board, but the wings were so tender High Fiving Chickens was bound to turn into Two Wingless Chickens and what is the humor in that?
I am glad Marissa at Slashfood picked up on my grill humor. Everyone here, especially Bean, just did their typical eye rolls!
UPDATE: Robyn at Serious Eats believes "anthropomorphizing headless roast chickens is weird." Perhaps, but they are still tasty. Of course, sometimes they are just steamed too!