To BBQ or not to BBQ

[aberdeenelvis]

Help me make up my mind please

The Mrs is away and am cooking for me and the oldest son who is 6.

Anyway I have a hole chicken and am don't know if I should just roast it or butterfly it and stick it on the BBQ. Roasting would be the easy wayout but BBQ could potentially be very nice?

Suggestions please.

[toasty]

Barbie all the way, but make sure it's well cooked as Salmonella can be very nasty.

[Arun_D]

I'm sure your kid will love the bbq, give it a go. Plenty of the UK seems to have the weather for it today, so may as well make the most of it while you can.

Frustrating for me living in a flat with no garden, so at least you have the option to bbq! Saying that, I'm a 2min walk from the beach, but those disposable tray bbqs are hardly versatile things, though do the job.

[giblet]

Butterfly and cook indirect for 40 mins or so. I found that cooking it indirect with skin side up and legs pointing towards the hotter side results in a good chicken. Just flip it over a few mins before it's done and move over the coals to get a nice crispy skin. Did this with 2 chickens a couple of days ago, one in nandos marinade and the other in a peruvian one. Delicious!

[Shaw Tarse]

Beercan chicken?

[calibrax]

Shaw Tarse said:

Beercan

That's Jamaican for "bacon"

[SpeedMattersNot]

In England, if you can use the BBQ, do it!

toasty said:

Barbie all the way, but make sure it's well cooked as Salmonella can be very nasty.

I actually just misread that as "...Salmonella can be very tasty." and nearly spat my drink out before I read it properly!

[giblet]

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/08/the-food-lab-ho...

That makes for some interesting reading, and its the method I used and described a few posts above.

[mattdaniels]

BBQ every time. Beercan chicken or rotisserie.

Yum.