Fire roasted chicken.. I hope.

[brewmaster15]

I will let you know how this works out.. I wanted to roast a few chickens over the fire but I dont own a spit and no time to make one. I do have steel rebar though and a good steel barrel as well as fire..

The tub lets me run my campfire abit as I want by diffusing the heat and there rebar lets me turn the chicken. I can also add water to prevent a grease fire.

The other benefit of the tub is I can pitch in cherry or any wood to smoke flavor it... and before I am done I can shovel in hot coals to crisp it up and cook foil wrapped potatoes.

I am a bit apprehensive as I have a roll of stainless steel wire but cant find it so I had to use cotton twine to wrap the chicken.

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A few hours and we either have tasty roast chicken or chicken alla burnt.

al

[Second Hand Pat]

Looks intriguing Al, hope it works out!!
Pat

[brewmaster15]

Pat it worked pretty good. I got side tracked and had a small flare up that toasted one bird. The main glitch was what I feared .. the twine burned. And that made it hard to rotate. If I had that wire it would have been perfect.

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I did end up having to modify the technique because of the problem turning. It just got too hard.. so I jacked up the grill and threw the whole birds and rebar on it finish up .

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No complaints...it was extremely moist and tasty.

al

[Second Hand Pat]

I will be right over...looks yummy :D
Pat

[dagray]

did you make enough for the whole forum? Hmmmm?!?!

[rickztahone]

Looks delicious! Yum. Have you tried beer chicken? One of my favs