Good Eats S14E02 Grillus Domesticus 3 of 3

[NETWizzJbirk]

Thumbs up... if you notice ALL cooking shows always have a brand-new, never-used grill for every show!

[greengeekgirl]

This chicken looks totally overwrought. I've grilled boneless/skinless breasts zillions of time and it comes out juicy and delicious--the trick is marinating and covering while monitoring the temperature.

[Sairin13]

Classic problem of terminology, up here barbecue is a flavor. Down there barbeque is a cooking method. Like most terminology if you know enough about it to care when the term is misused than you probably already know enough not to be confused when someone uses it with a different meaning.

[LlamaOfDeath]

"Still... it works for potato chips. Why not chicken? Let's try it!"

[ZealDaan]

mmm, clucker parts!

[mdalli]

Love Good Eats, love AB, but this episode highlights one of the (small) things that drives me crazy about AB -- he sometimes does silly, expensive & elaborate things.

8 feet of foil to create a "ring of fire"?? Ridiculous & dumb. Just put the coals on one side, and it's half hot, half warm; works like a charm.

[BitchinnShoes07]

Is the word barbecue copyrighted now or something?

[Matein13]

What word is he talking about?

[Gangway1111]

@Matein13

He's talking about the F word

[adamjonpeterson]

Depending on who you talk to, "traditional" southern BBQ is exclusively pork because of it's abundance and low cost, except for in Texas where "traditional BBQ" is exclusively beef, probably due to the fact that its where the majority of cattle came from.

*Also, i would think that chicken doesn't have enough fat content to survive real low & slow smoking and could be easily overwhelmed by the smoky flavor.

[feltwiener69]

Why did he say you can't BBQ a chicken? I know you have to cook with smoke for it to be BBQ. People that think anything on the grill is BBQ drive me nuts. But I consider the whole bird that cooks in my smoker next to the ribs and brisket as BBQ. And yes, I was born and raised south of the Mason/Dixon line.

[larkhainan]

@feltwiener69 The terminology gets extremely loopy when you take a southern gent such as Alton and have him make television for a northern audience who don't appreciate proper smoking nomenclature - which, sorry to say, the vast majority of his viewing eyeballs in fact are (or from somewhere even weirder). Frankly I just chalk it up to him trying to soothe the line and the oddities of that therein.

But yeah you definitely can and even i know that north of the border line.

[gamemeister27]

@larkhainan I'm up in Minnesota and I laugh to myself when people talking about grilling as BBQ.

Probably because I watch so many shows about proper BBQ.