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Beer Can Chicken Recipe Friday, August 27, 2004 • read strip Viewing 71 comments:

Make sure the guts are teared out.

A comment left by asherdan was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Sleeps, littlecat, DiamondMonster, magnumt, GeyserShitdick, atticusonline, profbobo, littlefatdog, heatbag, Pigs)

I am awaiting my order of the cookbook. I checked today, but it had not arrived. I was Sad. I hope it arrives tomorrow. I have been having bad speculative thoughts about it getting lost in the post.

it takes quite a while. Onstad is not necessarily the best at shipping things on time.

If we could edit, I'd suggest you insert the phrase "sometimes" after "is". I got mine not long after I ordered even though I'm halfway 'cross the country.

I am from Indiana, so I am further away than you.

Well, la de da .

as an update, I had a friend who ordered a product from them in early October, and was recently told that she will not be receiving it in time for Christmas. which is a problem as the person who's birthday it originally for will be going to Australia a semester for school.

This item is the second cookbook.

Oh man I loves me some beer-butt chicken.

A comment left by epicurus was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by mjfitzge, mortshire, cdl146)

I've made this before. Pretty damn awesome. To give you an idea of how versatile this recipe is, it came out great even when I used a 24 oz can of Steel Reserve !

The only problem was that when I bought it I hadn't shaved in a few days. The cashier took one look at the name on the can and told me to go get a fucking job.

I have printed out this strip and glued it in my personal cookbook. I've cooked beer can chickens in one state and two Canadian provinces for myself and others. It has never failed me.

did the ladies resign themselves to your power and charm?

"See if the lady notices."

This recipe is so good and I make it all the time. I would recommend rubbing the salt and pepper onto the chicken instead of just sprinkling it, and then respraying it with oil for maximum crispiness.

Also, save the drippings and make a delicious beer gravy out of them. (There are instructions to make gravy online - just substitute beer for whatever liquid - milk, cream, water, whatever - they tell you to mix in with the roux. It took me a couple tries to get it right.

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I love that balanced parentheses are important enough to us that you single close paren got a chubby. EMACS SKILLZ FO LYFE!

oh man emacs is the devil.

"OH HI IM LINUX IM GUNNA MAKE THE WORST WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM EVAR!"

Well, the alternative isn't much better. "The key to using vi is remembering that it has two modes. In one mode, it corrupts your data, and in the other mode, it beeps at you."

I had to give you a chubby for that precisely because I use vi.

So is tsp teaspoon or tablespoon?
I know, I'm hopeless at cooking.

tsp=teaspoon. tbsp=tablespoon. We all start somewhere, no worries.

Oh god I can never remember that either. When I get the cookbook I'm gonna have to tape an extra page in saying how those things are abbreviated.

Some people also just use "t." for teaspoon and "T." for tablespoon. Either way, you can remember that the abbreviation for teaspoon uses the lowercase letter or shorter abbreviation, and the one for tablespoon the uppercase letter or longer abbreviation. But yeah, it's pretty dumb. Metric FTW.

It's much easier to measure a half-teaspoon of some ingredient then weighing the corresponding amount. Also, sometimes spoons are used to specify volume (e.g. one tablespoon of chopped mint) rather than weight. Cooking is not an exact science!

I agree that "tablespoon" is a horrible measure because tablespoons vary greatly in size.

They don't vary if you buy measuring spoons.

Wait, people use actual spoons to measure out tablespoons?

Yeah, apparently people do that. I don't know why , though.

So that we can make recipes correctly.

But regular spoons vary in volume, and don't actually come out to tsp. or tbs. If you want to make a recipe correctly, you should probably use measuring spoons.

I meant measuring spoons. I thought that was what howl was referring to, since the post above hers mentioned them.

I meant that it's weird that people use actual eating spoons for measuring.

This whole thing is like an upside-down staircase of confusion.

But those are so cool!
[IMGS OFF]

This chicken is delicious, it has been made in my family for many years.

I keep wanting to make this, but I never have any extra beer.

So I finally managed to make this, and the outcome was delicious.

Today's recipe: Chicken!

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This is a fantastic service. I'm not kidding.

I definitely agree.

As do I. I love you, Blog Girl.

and it's not just the Yelena Rossini icon that provokes that reaction.

She's a filthy assistant.

Hurrah for reminding me of my favourite Teodor blog post:
"Earlier in the week he wanted to do this Donald Trump theme, which I guess meant that he would fly away in a helicopter while the party went bankrupt, but hopefully he'll have changed his mind. "

So I guess aluminium is OK at 400 degrees Fahrenheit?

As far as I know. Aluminum is a common material for cookware.

Aluminum has a melting point of 1220 F, well within the range of virtually all cookery. (Although I must admit that the "aluminium" spelling makes a little more sense, since many of the other metals end with "-ium." Plus it sounds so jaunty.)

The extra syllable triples the fun!

I was more worried about the paint on the can and any other treatments that might help the sealing process. But I didn't say that.

Nah, I made this a couple months ago. Turned out fine, except I was not able to sit the chicken upright because I was using a stupidly designed oven.

Also while it was cooking the lady did indeed resign herself to my power and charm. And then again after we ate the chicken.

eat chicken for renewed vigour!

FINALLY the chicken recipe!

you know what else tastes good marinated in beer?
let me tell you. it is definately carne asada mmm..

Basically all things taste better with a good beer marinade.

this strip made me decide to order one of the books. i just discovered achewood about a week ago and since then have been reading through the entire series one strip at a time. hi all :)

I really must get around to making this. I hear good things about it...

I've made Beer-Can Chicken before.

It's not real complicated, true. However, once you're done cooking the bird, the cavity remains wide open and always reminds me of something off of Goatse.com.

For that same reason, I've quit making Lemonparty bars ...

Expellens is MARK TRAIL

This is a FANTASTIC comment.

Wow does that actually work? It sounds like it would be awesomely flavourous.

It does work and it is the Stuff

I have cooked this numerous times, but never in an oven. I have always done this on the grill with delicious results.

who doesnt know how to make this? such a redundant recipe....

You know I've seen you a lot round here lately and it's gotta be said, I don't like you.

And your hat looks hell of unpopular-twelve-year-old.

I made beer can chicken once; not this recipe, strictly - I was actually using another recipe for grilling it, but when my hickory wood chips caught fucking fire in the prep phase (despite soaking them for a while), I used the roasting instructions from this.

I noticed that, when it was done, and I took the can out, it pretty much still a full can of beer. Was it supposed to steam out more, or something? Did I do it wrong?

The chicken was just OK, unfortunately. Not all that moist.

i drink half the beer before i put it in the bird, and I also cut a lemon in half and stick it in the bird before the beer can.

This is best if you're barbecuing it (bird over foil drip-catcher over the off burner, other burner on med-hi). I've never done this oven-roasted.

Cheers. I actually just happened upon this message a day or two ago, and was mildly disappointed that there was no response yet. Now, I'm mildly satisfied.

Enjoy your Alzheimer's.

I know I'll enjoy mine.

Ray refers to the chicken as "he" in this recipe. Is Ray in favor of roasting a chicken's ding-dong?