The chicken struggled a bit. If anyone tries this method, it works best to lay down a shallow ring of unlit followed by a ring of fully lit and don’t start cook until you have visible flame 360 degrees around the vortex. That’s how all of my previous successful times went. This time I started it a bit early without a well lit ring of fire. I pulled it at two hours and finished in a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes. I failed. It happens. But in the end it was still perfectly cooked. Just took too long.
When done correctly it should take no longer than 1.5 hours for a 5lb. Bird.
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