First cook on the bird barrel

mattmountz94

mattmountz94

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Cooked some bone in chicken breasts on the in progress bird barrel. Injected with garlic butter and one had webers kickin chicken other had Montreal chicken. The bird barrel was running between 250-325. A lot of practice in my near future to get it up to temp and holding. Overall chicken turned out good. The crispest skin I have had recently although it still wasn't very crisp. Chicken was very moist and good flavor.









I pulled the chicken at 170
 
What is the silver tube the probe wires are going through? I tried to do a similar set up (minus the tube) but my wires kept getting caught on the rim of the grill.
 
tb80 said:
What is the silver tube the probe wires are going through? I tried to do a similar set up (minus the tube) but my wires kept getting caught on the rim of the grill.
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It's a spacer I found at lowes in the hardware area. Fits perfect over the spit with two wires through it. I have used it numerous times and never an issue. It measures 1 1/2" by 5/8 OD I think the ID is 3/8. I'm running to lowes tomorrow I'll see if they have one, if they do I'll shoot a picture of the discription
 
mattmountz94 said:
It's a spacer I found at lowes in the hardware area. Fits perfect over the spit with two wires through it. I have used it numerous times and never an issue. It measures 1 1/2" by 5/8 OD I think the ID is 3/8. I'm running to lowes tomorrow I'll see if they have one, if they do I'll shoot a picture of the discription
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So, the spacer just keeps the wires from flopping around? Great idea.
 
:clap: nice cook! Looks juicy as all get out for sure.

Wires? I'll skip the wires. When you can just put a analog therm in the middle and call it a day. It'll probably drive you bonkers seeing the Maverick temp jumping around.

Great first cook though, and yes it's a learning process on the fire...going on 2 years for me and I'm still learning something here and there.


Make yourself up some PBC style hooks and you can hang foiled baked potato's, corn on the cob etc... plenty of room around the perimeter for stuff like that.
 
mattmountz94 said:
It's a spacer I found at lowes in the hardware area. Fits perfect over the spit with two wires through it. I have used it numerous times and never an issue. It measures 1 1/2" by 5/8 OD I think the ID is 3/8. I'm running to lowes tomorrow I'll see if they have one, if they do I'll shoot a picture of the discription
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Great idea. Thanks.
 
Nice! I am also intrigued with your temperature gauge innovation. I messed around for the better part of an hour trying to figure out something. Finally decided to just use my old dial thermometer stuck in the lid of my 22" Weber grill. BUT with the wind gusting to 30 mph we chickened out and cooked our bird in the house. We thought setting the neighborhood on fire might put a damper on our weekend. I will be visiting my local Lowes soon. Thanks for sharing.
 
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