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Beer-can Chicken

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"Beer-can Chicken" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Beer-can_Chicken, revision 4523903), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Beer-can_Chicken&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Poke holes all over chicken to let fat run out during cooking.
  2. Rub chicken thoroughly with spice rub: inside and out, and then under skin as far as you can reach
  3. Set aside chicken.
  4. Remove upper racks from oven.
  5. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
  6. When oven preheated, take a healthy drink of the beer, leaving about 9–10 ounces.
  7. Crumble bay leaves into beer, in beer can.
  8. Insert beer can firmly into chicken cavity.
  9. Place chicken upright in shallow heatproof pan.
  10. Bake chicken upright for 1–1.5 hours until thickest part is 165°F (73°C).
  11. When removing chicken from oven, keep upright.
  12. Rest chicken upright 15 minutes before removing beer can.