beer butt chicken

updated wed 12 jan 05

David Hendley on thu 6 jan 05

WARNING!
Do not let an eager customer talk you into making beer can chicken
cookers or you will never quit making them.
I can't help it - when a good customer asks me to make a goofy thing,
I do it. I can't say no to someone who has spent hundreds, if not
thousands, of dollars at my shop.

First, he had me make 8 - he wanted to give them out to his business
customers.
Then, he had me make 12 more.
Then, I made 4, with embossed clay panels on the sides, as prizes
for a golf tournament the company sponsors.

I never set the extras out at the shop, but every few months someone
will ask for one, and I pull one out for them.
Last month, someone in Florida did an internet search and found
me (it must be from a previous time I mentioned chicken cookers
on Clayart).
I sent her my last two. I thought I was finally out of the beer butt
business.
Now, she want a half dozen more, for all her friends.
Geez....I'm just a guy who can't say no.

David Hendley
Working hard to make sure there is no mug left behind
david@farmpots.com
http://www.farmpots.com





----- Original Message -----
> Now a friend just dropped in this afternoon and gave us a gift of a
> "Chickano" which he slip casts. You use his "Chickano" instead of
sticking
> the open can of beer up the chickens butt when cooking. For the recipe and
> procedure go to Mark's website. His company is called Little Red Hen's
> Kitchen Garden and the web is www.redhen.ca Check the picture of the
cooked
> chicken.
> He slip casts egg poachers, hummingbird feeders and the cylinder for Beer
> Butt Chicken or for you familiar with the barbeque-"Beer Can Chicken". I
> think perhas a good lager might be nice for this one.
> bon apetite!
> Tony

clennell on thu 6 jan 05

Before i tell you about sticking an open can of beer up the backside of a
chicken I had a few requests for Guinness stew. We got a Crock pot for
Christmas and our first meal was stew
Guinness stew
-cut up sirloin stewing beef
-add potatoes, onions, carrots, parsnip, a bit of squash, beef broth and one
or two cans of Guinness. Also add a can of beef broth. Add your favourite
spices- bay leaf is nice. cook slowly all day long while you're out in the
studio working. come in at dinner hour to the smell of a great meal. Pour
yourself a wine, sit by the fire to get warm and then eat heartily.
I like the idea of a long cook in clay. It is very delicous!

Now a friend just dropped in this afternoon and gave us a gift of a
"Chickano" which he slip casts. You use his "Chickano" instead of sticking
the open can of beer up the chickens butt when cooking. For the recipe and
procedure go to Mark's website. His company is called Little Red Hen's
Kitchen Garden and the web is www.redhen.ca Check the picture of the cooked
chicken.
He slip casts egg poachers, hummingbird feeders and the cylinder for Beer
Butt Chicken or for you familiar with the barbeque-"Beer Can Chicken". I
think perhas a good lager might be nice for this one.
bon apetite!
Tony
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Sour Cherry Pottery
4545 King Street
Beamsville, Ontario
CANADA L0R 1B1
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com/current_news/news_letter.html

Rhonda Kale on thu 6 jan 05

I had to laugh when I read the posting about the chicken. I have several stainless steel and a ceramic cone shaped thingies that basically hold the chicken up so that it looks like he's sitting. My aerobic teacher's little girl called it "Standup Chicken." I, having a slightly what my mother in law calls, a bawdy sense of humor, called it "Chicken on the Loo" (pun on words C. Vendalu). It looked like all it needs is a newspaper to read.... The way I make it to go out and cut lots of Rosemary from the garden. Wash your bird and stick pieces of Rosemary between the skin and meat. Also use pieces of garlic between skin and meat. You can use garlic POWDER in a pinch or the stuff from the jar. Give chicken a massage with some lovely olive oil and then sprinkle him with sea salt and cracked pepper. Take a rectangular roasting pan and put about an inch or inch and a half of water (a friend adds a little white wine but that is guilding the lily) Put Mr. Chicken on his throne and sit in
the middle of the rectangular pan. Put on 350 degrees for about an 1 1/2 hours til golden brown (use themometer if you need). The steaming water makes the chicken stay moist. Carefully pull out the p
ieces of Rosemary after cooking or inform your company to discard before eating.
This is very low in fat and makes the house smell wonderful and sooo easy for company in the summer with baby greens salad, steamed veggies, oven roasted baby potatoes. In the winter, smashed potatoes and more hardy carbs are required... Enjoy!



On the rest of the journey.....
Rhonda Kale
31.23595 N, 85.40529 W
Potters Council Member
qndivauniv@earthlink.net

MLC on fri 7 jan 05

complete directions with pictures

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/feature/how-to-step/-/
garden/287422/000/103-3373778-8263014

Millie in Md

Nancy Udell on fri 7 jan 05

I am going downstairs directly to make a beer butt chicken cooker! I
love this list. We have a recipe for beer cooked chicken, but I never
liked the idea of putting an aluminum can inside the chicken. It never
occurred to me to make a ceramic thing like that shown on the redhen.ca
site. What a great idea.

Nancy in Md, about to don clay clothes and take a stab a chicken butts
(pun intended)

Joan Berkwitz on fri 7 jan 05

Hi All! I bought a "Chickie Cooker" from Claybud Tig a while back, and =
truly enjoy it! He threw it in porcelain, and glazed it with a lovely =
translucent honey glaze. You can use anything from water to beer to a =
thinned out marinade inside the cylinder, and rub the chickie with =
rosemany, garlic, pepper, kosher or sea salt, or a really good barbeque =
rub. (Anyone else a Steve Raichlen fan? His "Barbeque Bible" series is a =
must-have for the serious fire lover!)

The best thing about the Chickie Cooker is that the chicken is steamed =
from the inside, and because it is upright the entire chicken gets =
equally done and equally brown. You might want to cover his shoulders =
with a shawl of aluminum foil if using it in the oven, because he might =
get a bit browner on top. The chicken is just fall-apart good!=20

Thank you, Tig, for introducing me to the joys of Upright Chicken =
Roasting!

Joanie

Dorie Mickelson on fri 7 jan 05

I can not believe all the ClayArt posts about beer butt chicken!!! I
had never even heard of beer butt chicken in my entire life until about
one month ago when I got the following email message requesting a
commission from someone I did not know: "Dorie, For lack of knowing
what to call it, I'm interested in the "Chicken on a Beer Can" piece
that you create. A co-worker told me about it and handed me your card.
My husband loves to cook chickens on a beer can on the grill. How much,
or should I say could you, customize one of these pieces with a Notre
Dame logo on it? I wouldn't need the piece until January (birthday)." I
laughed for days and days over this commission request, assuming the
email was either a big joke (that the "co-worker" was playing on the
woman who sent me the email or that someone was playing on me) or just a
really funny error (i.e., someone got my business card mixed up with
someone else's).

When I looked up "chicken on a beer can" on the internet though and
found pictures of what this phenomenon (also known as beer butt chicken)
actually looked like, I was even more dumbfounded! Was there some piece
of pottery of mine that someone actually thought looked like THAT? Dear
God! I could not fathom anyone making anything out of clay or anything
else that looked like beer butt chicken, or that if anyone did, anyone
would actually want such a thing, with a Notre Dame logo on it no less
. Anyway, none of my friends ever fessed up to instigating this
funny commission request and so I finally told the woman that she must
have me confused with someone else as I did not do "sculptural work",
invited her to check out my website for anything else she might be
interested in, and wished her the best in finding her husband the
perfect birthday gift. I never heard from her again and still wonder if
that was just someone being really funny, or if not, if she ever found
the "chicken on a beer can piece" she was looking for...

And ever since, any mention of beer butt chicken just totally cracks me
up!!!

Dorie Mickelson in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the snow is covering
everything and I have a kiln load full of tumblers being pre-heated for
the bisque...

www.FreeSpiritCreations.com



From: clennell

Subject: Beer Butt Chicken

Before i tell you about sticking an open can of beer up the backside of
a chicken I had a few requests for Guinness stew. Now a friend just
dropped in this afternoon and gave us a gift of a "Chickano" which he
slip casts. You use his "Chickano" instead of sticking the open can of
beer up the chickens butt when cooking. For the recipe and procedure go
to Mark's website. His company is called Little Red Hen's Kitchen Garden
and the web is www.redhen.ca Check the
picture of the cooked chicken. He slip casts egg poachers, hummingbird
feeders and the cylinder for Beer Butt Chicken or for you familiar with
the barbeque-"Beer Can Chicken". I think perhas a good lager might be
nice for this one. bon apetite! Tony Tony and Sheila Clennell Sour
Cherry Pottery