How to make a turducken
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Turducken: A Thermal Nightmare Done Right

Have you heard of the turducken? The turkey-stuffed-with-duck-stuffed-with-chicken? This chimera of meat waded out of the Louisiana bayous sometime in the 1980’s and has been seen terrorizing thanksgiving tables ever since. Why do I say terrorizing? Because the turducken is a thermo-logistical nightmare. Think about it. You create a giant sphere of meat that must…

Grilled Whole Chicken: Butterfly for Success

Grilled Whole Chicken: Butterfly for Success

People go crazy for grilled chicken—and why shouldn’t they? It’s delicious—that crispy skin, that juicy, savory meat. Of course, people often grill individual parts of the chicken., but why not grill the whole thing? In this article, we’ll discuss the why’s and how’s of grilling a whole chicken so you can get delicious, crispy-skinned grilled…

Smoked Chick with Brussel Sprouts
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Roast Chicken on the Smoker with Sauteed Brussels Sprouts: temperatures for success

There are few dishes that are as simple yet impressive as well-roasted chicken. Done right, it is good enough to serve to guests without a lot of fuss to prepare. And a smoke roasted chicken? Well, that’s just tasty. Smoked chicken takes a little longer to prepare, but the end result is succulent and juicy with…

Smoked Christmas Goose
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Smoked Christmas Goose

Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession. Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course—and in truth it was something…