Aluminum Can Chicken

• 2 whole Chickens, 4 Lb. Each
• Olive Oil
• For Dry Rub
• 2 teaspoons Cayenne Pepper
• 1 teaspoon Paprika
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
• 1/2 teaspoons Ground Black Pepper
• 1/2 teaspoons Onion Powder
• 2 cans Beverage Of Your Choice (you Can Fill Empty Soda Cans With Your Own Concoction)

1. Wash the chickens well, pat dry and coat with oil on all sides.
2. Mix together ingredients for dry rub and split the rub between the chickens, coating each well.
3. Choose your beverage.
4. The friend whose recipe I began with used apple juice and its a nice, no-nonsense flavor that doesnt disagree with the dry rub.
5. I emptied 2 cans of Diet Coke and filled them half full each of apple juice.
6. Preheat your grill to 350 degrees , allowing for indirect heat (if you have three burners, use only one and three for cooking).
7. If you have a 2-burner grill, turn off the one that isnt necessary for gas flow.
8. Invert one chicken with legs down place carefully over one of the beverage cans and place over the off burner on the grill, placing the legs like a tripod to balance the chicken.
9. Repeat with Chicken Number Two.
10. Close the grill and leave it alone for one and a quarter hours.
11. Check for doneness with a thermometer probe in the thigh (not against a bone) for 180 degrees , or pierce the meat and see that the juices run clear.
12. Remove cooked chickens from grill, remove the cans and allow birds to stand 10 minutes before carving.

olive oil, rub, cayenne pepper, paprika, salt, garlic, ground black pepper, onion powder, beverage

Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/aluminum-can-chicken/ (may not work)