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Better than Rotisserie Chicken!

First time cooking a chicken like this with the Vortex. Used our XL BGE and the Large Vortex for this cook. Placed the Vortex in the center of the BGE with the wide end up with a tin pan in the center to catch the drippings. Added the lump all around the Vortex. Fired up the BGE and brought it to 375°.

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Chicken was in MH Poultry Brine for 8 hours, rinsed and patted dry and seasoned with a basic chicken rub and onto the beer can holder. I didn’t actually have any beer in the can, it was just there as a holder for the stand and chicken.

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Chicken took a little more than an hour to come up to temp.

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This was by far the BEST chicken on the BGE to date. Skin was perfectly crispy and the meat was incredibly moist. Tasted amazing and like it had come off a rotisserie, only better! I don’t think I will be doing whole chickens any other way from now on.

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Looks great, nice and juicy too!!

Wonder if that vortex would work in a Weber kettle, looks interesting.

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Originally Posted by Ol'Joe (Post 3117733)

Wonder if that vortex would work in a Weber kettle, looks interesting.

They work GREAT in the kettles.... that is what they were originally designed for. There is 3 different sizes.

http://www.owensbbq.com/vortex.html

Looks like a homemade version of "The Big Easy" using charcoal instead of propane...

Great looking chicken.

Did you light all the lump or was it more like a Minion setup? How long was the cook? Interested to try that in my Joe.

Looks awesome.

I was wondering about using it in my uds or mini.

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Originally Posted by alecksjaycubs (Post 3117744)

Did you light all the lump or was it more like a Minion setup? How long was the cook? Interested to try that in my Joe.

I lit the lump in 3 different places around the Vortex and let it go like that. Was about an hour cook.

It looks moist. And skin was crispy. Total success! Complimenti.

Awesome!

Once again, another why didn't I think of that moment. Cool idea. :thumb:

I wonder if I set my uds basket at the highest setting if I can do this.

Looks great! Thanks for the idea.