Trying out this roasting thing

[leeharvey418]

I want to roast my Thanksgiving turkey like this, so I thought I should try it out with a chicken or two to make sure I'm not stupid.

The coals weren't fully lit when they went into the baskets. I'm going to try to dial in 300-325 - once I know where the vents need to be for that, adding more fuel is pretty trivial if need be on a longer cook. The BGE turkey roaster didn't immediately shatter or catch fire when I put it next to my Webers, so that's a good sign.

I'll post after pics in a little while.


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[1911Ron]

Looking forward to the pictures.

[leeharvey418]

I took out the heat shield and flipped it breasts to the heat at about 50 minutes in. I'm decently happy for my first attempt at this method.


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[leeharvey418]

Forgot the pictures.


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[1911Ron]

If you use the snake method you don't have to open the lid to turn the chicken.     

( ) light the top left side and light the bottom right side, spread your smoking wood along each side,I have used like 4-5 lit briqs to each side and top and bottom vents  wide open.  I spatched my chicken and used a drip pan with water in it, next time I'm going to skip the water and I should get a higher temp (300 on both kettles) and it should crisp and brown the skin better.

[1911Ron]

Oh BTW the chicken looks great!