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Fried Chicken on the Grill??!!

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It’s funny how you wake up some days and the day goes totally differently than you expected. I visited the Barbecue Bible message board just after getting up. I found a post there by a gentleman who’s handle is SCBBQBIll, who’d made fried chicken on his Weber Kettle. I was skeptical when I saw the post title, but intrigued as well. Up until that point, I thought the only way to get crispy skin was to deep fry the chicken. I had seen a recipe on the America’s Test Kitchen TV show for making deep fried chicken in a Dutch Oven. It was actually on my short list of things To Do. Reading the post I saw the original recipe came from the Virtual Weber Bullet web site, which was a good sign. Best yet the recipe was simple, You prep the chicken just as you would to fry it. Next thing I knew it was off to the supermarket to get chicken and batter. I couldn’t wait. Read More...
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Grill Refurb - Pt 3 - I am a Genius

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The biggest event happening around here this year is my decision to refurbish, rather than replace my current gas grill. While the main driving force behind repair vs. replace was economic realities, it turns out that without really knowing it I made an even smarter decision than I thought. I’ve already written two blogs on the actual refurbishing operation. This blog will focus on some realizations I have come to since making the repairs. It turns out I may have been a lot smarter than I knew at the time. Read More...
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Grill Refurb Part 2-The Rust of the Story

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Perhaps I should have taken the way the replacement burners were delayed three times and were finally delivered, as a sign that this part of my grill refurb operation might not run as smoothly as the rest of it had. The burners were out of stock and I had indeed received 3 different delivery dates for them, each 3 weeks later than the previous notice. When they finally did ship I breathed a sigh of relief that at least they weren’t discontinued. I’d gotten a range of arrival dates where they shipped via UPS ground. The day they actually arrived we had some very bad thunderstorms roll through with torrential rains. Knowing that the UPS driver always left packages at my front door, I’d checked the front steps several times that day and there was no package. Then my wife arrived home from work and asked if I had ordered something, because there was a very wet box on the SIDE stairs. I sighed and decided a little water wasn’t going to hurt anything. But perhaps this was a warning sign from the BBQ gods. Read More...
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Grill Refurb Part 1

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No sooner had I posted my blog entry Reinvigorating My Grill and the doorbell rang & I found all button on of the parts for my grill refurb had arrived - early as a matter of fact. That was the good news. The bad news was the 6 burners, which are buried the deepest inside the grill, are backorder for about 1 month. After thinking about it for a while I decided to go ahead and install theses parts. Read More...
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Reinvigorating My Grill

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My gas grill will be 7 years old come this fall and needs some work. My original plan was to replace it with a shiny new Weber model, but now I am going to fix my existing grill. While my final decision was driven as much by economic reality as any other reason, now that I have chosen I am actually quite happy with my choice. This blog will describe some of my decision making process. Read More...
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