What is Up the butt chicken?]
Editor–Summary of several posts– It is a method for smoking whole chickens using a wire rack that goes in the butt cavity and holds the chicken upright during the smoking process. Some barbecuers also use a beer can, either empty or half full of water or beer in place of the wire rack. I saw whole chickens being barbecued with a ‘beer can up the butt’ at a BBQ competition where the barbecuers smoked the chicken in the horizontal position, breast up. It was delicious. Smoking times will be 3-4 hours at 220-250F. Use Danny’s ‘shaking hands with the drumstick’ method to determine when it’s done–internal temperature of 180-185F.
