Cooperative Living August 2017 - 43

CHILL WITH THE GRILL
On hot days, keep your kitchen cooler
harder to c
der t
ompensat
e f
or the heat of
or the heat of
your kitchen's oven.
and save energy b y cooking outside on
On hot days, keep your kit
and sa
run y
run your oven and your A/
ooking inside c
your grill. Cooking inside costs mor e to
chen c ooler
and save energy by cooking outside on
your grill. Cooking inside costs more to
run your oven and your A/C has to work
ompensat
our A/C has t o work
or the hea
Grilled Beer Can Chicken
Ingredients:
Grilled Beer Can Chick
Ingredients:
1 12oz. can of beer (For an alternativ e to
1 whole chicken (about 3 ½ pounds)
beer can with 1 ¼ cups of lemonade or
the beer, fill an empty 12-ounc
Yo
pepper mixture
2 cups wood chips or 2 w ood chunks,
soaked in water for 1 hour
13 " x9 " disposable aluminum pan
or 1 hour
ups of lemonade or
, fill an empty 12-ounc e soda or
Your favorite dry spice rub, or a salt and
apple cider.)
y turn gray, about 15 minutes. In the cent er of the grill, place the disposable
Use a chimney starter to light about 60 charc oal briquettes and burn them until
13 " x9 " aluminum pan and then dis
they turn gr
Use a chimne
side of the pan. Plac
Massage the spic
breas
can. T
e the disposable
side of the pan. Place a wood chunk on each coal pile or if using chips, mak e two
13 " x9 " aluminum pan and then distribute the briquettes int o two piles, one on each
ood chunk on each c
or 5 minut
the beer can and remov
on the grill.
Carefully plac
the wings f
start ar
acing the coal piles and c
e the chicken on the c
platter making sur
With a lar
regis
oal piles and cover. The tempera ture inside the grill should
enter of the grate abo ve the aluminum pan with
ters 170°-175° degrees, 65-85 minut
tart around 375° and finish ar
the chicken off the can and ont
ound 300°. C
ees, 65-85 minutes.
er making sure to keep the can upright and allow to rest for 15 minut
ith a large wad of paper towels in each hand, carefully transfer the chick
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er the chick en to a
or 15 minutes. Lift
ook until the thick est part of the thigh
top of the can. With the legs pointing do
the beer can and r
he two legs and the beer can f
e about 1/4c
ith the legs pointing down, slide the chicken o ver the open beer
4 cup of beer. Punch two more lar
/4
o legs and the beer can form a tripod that steadies the chick
packets by wrapping the chips with f
east and rub the spice rub dir
sage the spice rub all over the chick en, inside and out. Lift up the skin on the er the chicken, inside and out. Lift up the skin on the
the cooking grate and heat f
es to start the wood smoking.
ectly ont
o the meat. Av oid tearing the skin. Open
e lar ge holes in the
eadies the chicken upright
er the open beer
apping the chips with foil. Place a packet on each coal pile. R eplace
o piles, one on each
es and burn them until

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