Is it OK to stack chicken thighs?

[dapittboss]

I'll be moving in just under two weeks and I've been living out of boxes for about the last five and a half months. I don't have much of my cooking gear, I'm using an 18 1/2 Weber kettle to do some chicken thighs and legs. I'm doing them indirect, but I kinda need to stack them to get enough on. As long as I keep moving things around, do you think stacking will be OK?

 

[qman]

Yes, stacking the thighs while cooking indirect will work fine. Just rotate them, and check internal temp in several to be sure of even cooking.

 

[Plowboy]

I'll be moving in just under two weeks and I've been living out of boxes for about the last five and a half months. I don't have much of my cooking gear, I'm using an 18 1/2 Weber kettle to do some chicken thighs and legs. I'm doing them indirect, but I kinda need to stack them to get enough on. As long as I keep moving things around, do you think stacking will be OK?

What about getting some of those vertical chicken racks that some guys have been using? Or make a second level on your somehow. I did a search and didn't find any second shelves that can be added to a kettle, but seems like I've seen them before.

 

[Mo-Dave]

What about getting some of those vertical chicken racks that some guys have been using? Or make a second level on your somehow. I did a search and didn't find any second shelves that can be added to a kettle, but seems like I've seen them before.

Go to any hardware store that sells weber grates and pick up the charcoal grate. Along with 4 bolts about 6 or 8 inches long with nuts and large washers for the bottom grate. attach the bolts with the washers sandwiching the grate and a nut on the bottom and on the top to hold them. Then put a nut and washer at the top of each of the bolts and lay the smaller charcoal grate on top of that and sandwich another washer and nut to secure that. If you know someone with a welder the can weld large washers to the bottom of the bolts that would just sit on the main grate and weld the bolts to the smaller grate so the smaller grate will just sit on the larger grate and can be picked up and set off and on as you need.

I hope I described that ok. Just remember that shelve will be hotter to cook on.
Dave

 

[BBQchef33]

I use this trick for our boyscout outings. Feed 18 boys with one kettle.

it allows for adjustment of the height of the grate with no welding which can allow 2 additional, grates if they are adjusted to be close together(burgers, wing, sausages, etc,)

Use any size smaller grates. i used thin screws that fit thru the grates (i think they were 8x3/8x20) and some fender washers that fit the screws.

I used 6. 5 on the outside and one in the center.

Lined the entire perimeter with the coals so the whole center of the kettle was usable. Worked well, top was hotter. had to rotate meat form outside to inside because outside was getting some direct heat.