Delicious Chicken in a bell

[pelbo]

Great way to cook a bar-b-que chook over a camp fire. No washing up, cooks perfectly and stays moist. Have a glass or two watching it cook. The smell is terrific. It is self basting as it cooks.

Get an old wire coat hanger. Stretch it out as per the photo below. Keep the top bent bit so that the chook does not slide off:



Coat chicken in favourite spices, stuff if you want, tie legs together and insert wire through chook until resting on bent wire:



Take about 600mm of aluminium foil:



Fold over and join both ends. Fold ends together several times to seal ends.



Form into a circular tube that leaves plenty of room (about an inch) around the inserted chook.



Insert chook. While your helper holds the chook inside the tube by holding the wire, pull the top together to from a sealed top around the wire - like a bell:



Having started a good fire few hours ago (did I mention that earlier???) so that you have lots of coals, hang over the coals about 3" inches above the coals:



After about 5 minutes, if the height is OK above the coals, it should start to drip chicken fat into the fire, which burns and also smokes the chook. If dripping too fast, raise the chook. Dripping too slowly, lower.
After half an hour hold up by the wire to look under and see how it is cooking. It should be going brown with no burning. Adjust height to suit. It should cook the same for the weight of the chook in an oven. The heat gets trapped in the bell, evenly cooking the chook if at the correct height.

Sit back and enjoy the camp fire with a cold drink or wine as you watch and savour the aroma of you cooking chook.
Keep the wire for the next chook and throw the bell into the bin.

[T1 Terry]

Looks interesting Paul, yet another reason to have a campfire and roast chook, just to try out another recipe
I saw the one with the can of beer in the chook, for some reason the cook forgot to crack the can before inserting it in the cook cavity.. it wasn't chooks in space, more like hand grenade chook but fortunately no injuries except for the chefs pride, it still comes up at campfires and it happened 30 yrs ago can't let him forget it in a hurry

[Dot]

Give us a hint as to the atomic chook cooker is.

[T1 Terry]

https://www.google.com.au/#q=beer+can+chicken+oven plenty of different variations on the same idea.

[T1 Terry]

Check this one out as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-9IPeUuRy8 that does look likew a tasty chicken.

[Kelvin12]

Nothing nicer than a chook cooked over coals.... Tried the beer can chook but wasn't much of a success, would have rather drank the beer actually. Certainly didn't cook in the recommended time and wound up pulling it apart and just BBQ, still tasted bloody good though.

Dirk

[T1 Terry]

Great way to cook a bar-b-que chook over a camp fire. No washing up, cooks perfectly and stays moist. Have a glass or two watching it cook. The smell is terrific. It is self basting as it cooks.

Get an old wire coat hanger. Stretch it out as per the photo below. Keep the top bent bit so that the chook does not slide off:



Coat chicken in favourite spices, stuff if you want, tie legs together and insert wire through chook until resting on bent wire:



Take about 600mm of aluminium foil:



Fold over and join both ends. Fold ends together several times to seal ends.



Form into a circular tube that leaves plenty of room (about an inch) around the inserted chook.



Insert chook. While your helper holds the chook inside the tube by holding the wire, pull the top together to from a sealed top around the wire - like a bell:



Having started a good fire few hours ago (did I mention that earlier???) so that you have lots of coals, hang over the coals about 3" inches above the coals:



After about 5 minutes, if the height is OK above the coals, it should start to drip chicken fat into the fire, which burns and also smokes the chook. If dripping too fast, raise the chook. Dripping too slowly, lower.
After half an hour hold up by the wire to look under and see how it is cooking. It should be going brown with no burning. Adjust height to suit. It should cook the same for the weight of the chook in an oven. The heat gets trapped in the bell, evenly cooking the chook if at the correct height.

Sit back and enjoy the camp fire with a cold drink or wine as you watch and savour the aroma of you cooking chook.
Keep the wire for the next chook and throw the bell into the bin.

So the bottom of the bell remains open? Is that correct? Gotta try this over the choofer, I'll either find or make on of those tripods that a billy hangs on to hold the chook up..... I can taste it now some of those smoking chicken pellet bit we bought from that smoking demo thrown on the coals to add that special flavour, I think the apple ones would go well.