"JohnO" > wrote in message
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>> At the risk of sounding sarcastic, which I'm not, why not just split the
>> chicken before it goes to the heat? Isn't a spatchcocked chicken
>> basically
>> a simple means to a presentation that appears complex?
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> If you're smoking a bird, splitting it this way also allows it to cook
> faster in my experience, which means juicier breasts. And we all want
> that, right?
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> -John O
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Does not making that final cut to separate the two halves before cooking
make the difference compared to cooking two half chickens, separated?