My Annual Chicken Fire

[BFT3K]

Apparently I need to make this mistake once a year. I'm not sure why, but it is clearly an annual obligation.

I'm at the stupidmarket, and I notice chicken leg quarters are on sale. Now personally, I don't really like chicken legs, and I don't really like chicken thighs, so you would think I would just move on, but no. For reasons which are clearly beyond me, the sale is too good to pass up. I go ahead and purchase a product I don't even want, in the oversized family value pack, even though I live alone.

Then I bring the groceries home, and I wonder, once again, why I bought these crumby chicken parts. I think about all different ways to cook them, but in the end, it's always the same - I need to put them on the BBQ grill. Again, I don't know why.

Within no time, the grill is a flaming mess of horrible chicken fat. The fire's insane, the chicken is blackened, and once again, I remember that I don't even like chicken leg quarters to begin with.

Time passes, smoke gets in my eyes, the lid of the grill is totally burnt up, but I keep cooking the miserable mess just the same.

Eventually I decide, based upon nothing in particular, that it's time for the ruined chicken to be taken off the grill, so I place it all on a dish and bring it in.

Later I think , hey, let me try some of that god-awful chicken that I burnt up earlier. As expected, it is terrible. The skin is horrible, the chicken is half raw, the smell is unpleasant, and ultimately I just throw it all into the yard for (ironically) the birds to eat.

A normal person would learn a lesson from this, but I am quite certain that at some point next year I will do it all again, because apparently, that's just how I roll.

[bronco67]

I know what it's like to grab the camera accidentally while reaching for the fire extinguisher.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by bronco67

I know what it's like to grab the camera accidentally while reaching for the fire extinguisher.

Get a BBQ that has a lid

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by BFT3K

Apparently I need to make this mistake once a year. I'm not sure why, but it is clearly an annual obligation.

I'm at the stupidmarket, and I notice chicken leg quarters are on sale. Now personally, I don't really like chicken legs, and I don't really like chicken thighs, so you would think I would just move on, but no. For reasons which are clearly beyond me, the sale is too good to pass up. I go ahead and purchase a product I don't even want, in the oversized family value pack, even though I live alone.

Then I bring the groceries home, and I wonder, once again, why I bought these crumby chicken parts. I think about all different ways to cook them, but in the end, it's always the same - I need to put them on the BBQ grill. Again, I don't know why.

Within no time, the grill is a flaming mess of horrible chicken fat. The fire's insane, the chicken is blackened, and once again, I remember that I don't even like chicken leg quarters to begin with.

Time passes, smoke gets in my eyes, the lid of the grill is totally burnt up, but I keep cooking the miserable mess just the same.

Eventually I decide, based upon nothing in particular, that it's time for the ruined chicken to be taken off the grill, so I place it all on a dish and bring it in.

Later I think , hey, let me try some of that god-awful chicken that I burnt up earlier. As expected, it is terrible. The skin is horrible, the chicken is half raw, the smell is unpleasant, and ultimately I just throw it all into the yard for (ironically) the birds to eat.

A normal person would learn a lesson from this, but I am quite certain that at some point next year I will do it all again, because apparently, that's just how I roll.

you like extra crispy and charred am i right?

[deltav]

Dude! You need to pile the hot coals on one side only (or turn the heat up one side if gas) - that way you can get a nice brief sear on the chicken via direct heat, then move to a slightly cooler section of the grill so they can cook thru without bursting into flames. Chicken ain't something you just put above the coals & hope for the best. Thighs are the best part of the bird if you know how to cook em.

[candyflip]

Hot coals, organic chicken thighs and some homemade BBQ sauce.

That's the best way to do the "cheaper" chicken cuts.

[Spunky]

I like crispy chicken too

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by candyflip

Hot coals, organic chicken thighs and some homemade BBQ sauce.

That's the best way to do the "cheaper" chicken cuts.

let me guess you like water hose chicken as well

[J. Falcon]

Good job.

[DamianJ]

Originally Posted by deltav

Dude! You need to pile the hot coals on one side only (or turn the heat up one side if gas) - that way you can get a nice brief sear on the chicken via direct heat, then move to a slightly cooler section of the grill so they can cook thru without bursting into flames. Chicken ain't something you just put above the coals & hope for the best. Thighs are the best part of the bird if you know how to cook em.

QFT

In the UK we really BBQ badly. Very badly. Burnt on the outside and raw in the middle.

So last year I decided to learn how the Americanland people do it. So I did lots of research, and found out all about what you posted above and indirect heat. Now I am the BBQ king!

Most evenings in the summer I cook on the grill, everything, and make some bloody good flatbread on it too!

I'm now just trying really hard to justify buying a Big Green Egg...

[RebelR]

Originally Posted by candyflip

Hot coals, organic chicken thighs and some homemade BBQ sauce.

That's the best way to do the "cheaper" chicken cuts.

oddly enough, the thighs aren't much cheaper anymore. Was talking with a meat broker who told me that much of what we used to consider the cheaper cuts (really anything other than the breast) are now exported to Asia and Indonesia, where they prefer the meat with more taste in their cooking, thus driving the price up. But you are right about the thighs and BBQ. Any BBQ competition I've ever seen features Thighs in the chicken category.

[PR_Glen]

i don't have to even check it ever.. 1 hour and 15 minutes on low later its done.. heh

[bigluv]

Thighs is the best

[PhoneSexKing]

+1 for beer can chicken!

[JFK]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

you like extra crispy and charred am i right?

Cajun Style blackened

[atom]

So, I was at the grocery store today and they had the huge chicken grill pack. I thought to myself as I stuck it in my cart. I wonder if my shit is gonna catch on fire like BFT3K's did.

[atom]

My chicken turned out fantastic! Thanks for all the concern....

[myjah]

You're an excellent writer. Good luck next year on your Annual Chicken Ruination.

[BAKO]

Best story ever lol