Sunday after putting the boat to bed after a great day of sailing outside San Diego Bay with the crew from Surf-Fur.com; I needed to whip up a quick dinner for another friend coming for dinner and this was the BOMB. Cooking on the egg in less than an hour, it gave me prep time for the rest of the meal and wasn’t too hard to make.
I started with a whole defrosted chicken and my ceramic chicken cooker (filled with cheap beer) on a drip pan. I dry-rubbed the chicken, set up the Big Green Egg for cooking indirect at between 350′-400′ degrees and without further work, left the chicken in the BGE to cook for an hour. During that hour I did not open the lip as the heat would have escaped, depending on my drip pan to keep the drippings in and not allow that grease to get into my stone (used for indirect cooking). It worked. After an hour and ten minutes, I had a tender, moist Beer Can Chicken for the record books, the rest of my dinner was done and I had been able to enjoy a sunset on the stern of my boat while prepping it all.
I think the key to this successful cook was the Sittin-Chicken Ceramic Beer Can Roaster that I used. It kept the chicken sitting upright and didn’t potentially warp or fall over like a hot beer can might. We could easily taste the beer and spice mix that had been inside the roaster and there was still beer and spices inside when I took it off the grill. Paired with a nice bottle of California Viognier, this was a fantastic quick cheap meal. Take a look below at one of my first beer can chickens…on a Big Green Egg on a sailboat!
Beer Can Chicken cooked on Saint Patty’s Day.
Another View-
6 Responses
I LOVE the festive necklace! And looks so good!
Hi, thank you for the comment, Yep, it was Saint Patty’s Day, so he needed some bling.
Sounds good! So what time is dinner tomorrow? ; ) Is this how you dress a chicken for dinner?
We dressed him that night but usually just eat.
I’m glad you didn’t do what many folks do and put the beer can up the chicken. If folks knew the chemicals used in a beer can they would NEVER. Do that. The heat releases many of the toxins into the bird and who ever eats it.
Yeah, that’s a good reason not to do it. Thanks for the reply and the info, I’ll be sure to include that next time I do a Beer Can Chicken and discuss it here. You should think about following us to keep up on our Green Egg Adventures, I don’t know too many other boats with one of these. I LOVE cooking on it.