Corona chicken

A month or so ago, we purchased a Weber Genesis Gold C gas grill (from Amazon of all places!). One of the very cool things about Weber is that they have a 24x7 grill line. So dummies like me can call at any time with inane questions to expose our incredible ignorance to the always polite and very patient and knowledgeable Weber folks. There's also a lot of good info on the Weber web site. This weekend I was browsing their site (not that I'm turning into a grilling fanatic, mind you ;-), and saw this cool poultry roaster. It's based on the idea of beer can chicken (also called beer in the butt chicken - follow the link and you'll see why). So we picked up a little device for about US$15, and tonight I took a chicken, a bottle of Corona, a lime, some salt and pepper, and some olive oil and experimented.

I rubbed olive oil over the outside and in the cavity, sprinkled lightly with salt, ground some pepper over the bird, then put almost a half a bottle of Corona in the container that ends up in the bird's butt. I squeezed lime juice into the container and stuck the bird in an unholy position, and decided to put a half lime up where the head should be ...to help keep in the steam (the rest of the Corona - and another for good measure - went to the chef). I grilled it on indirect medium, which means the front and rear burners were on half strength and the middle one was off.

After about an hour and 20 minutes, the bird was done. We only tasted the mildest hint of lime. The meat, however, was very tender, fell from the bone, quite moist ...pretty darn good all in all. Next we'll experiment with using garlic, clarified butter and red wine in the cup instead of beer. Lots of room for experimentation, and we've got a fairly nice starting point :)

Comments

[Dr. Lavine]

those are the most disturbing photos I've ever seen.

[Curt Stone]

Ah, yes... beer can chicken. One of the finer things in life. I learned of this only a couple years ago. I can't help but feel sorry for the chicken being further humiliated. I want to get excited for grilling, the outdoors, a cigar and a few beers. But ... we're getting snowed on again tonight. Please stop the madness! The weather guy is calling for 6 to 12 inches.I want to get a new grill with a rotisserie. I like the chicken off of a rotisserie. Ribs are good too.

[Joe Litton]

Curt, man, I can't imagine 6-12" of snow! Been there in the past, but I can't imagine it now.

We thought about a rotisserie - actually bought one, but it was wrong one :( ....then discovered the beer can chicken kind of thing :)

[Curt Stone]

I took some pictures of my grill yesterday so I could post them to my blog. I'll do this over the weekend. It's depressing. My co-workers tell me the weekend is promised to be warm so most of this junk will melt. Actually, the ride home yesterday was very dry. The snow was real wet and it melted fast. I'm thinking of what I'll be grilling and what cigar to smoke this weekend.:)

[Curt Stone]

I posted a picture of my grill as it was Thursday morning. It's supposed to be in the 50's today. I hope to grill something today regardless of the snow. Be positive.