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This Week in America's Test Kitchen: Italian-Style Grilled Chicken

Almost every cuisine that cooks over a live fire has developed a method for overcoming the challenge of grilling a whole chicken. Americans spike chickens on tallboys of Schlitz and bathe them in low, smoky heat. Italians take another route, cutting out the backbone and cooking the butterflied bird over a hot fire. The Italian secret: The bird is weighted with bricks. But America's Test Kitchen improved upon the method with a novel twist. Watch the video above for step-by-step instructions or get the recipe at AmericasTestKitchen.com (free registration required).

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2 Comments | Posted by The Serious Eats Team, August 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: America's Test Kitchen, chicken, grilled chicken, videos

KFC's New Fiery Grilled Wings

If a secret fast-food constitution exists, I believe one of the laws would be "Food can claim to be spicy but not actually make a person break a sweat, let alone reach for a glass of water." Mass-marketed food can't get too high on the Scoville scale without turning off a huge audience, so we figured KFC's new Fiery Grilled Wings wouldn't be that crazy.

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8 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, January 26, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Tagged: grilled chicken, KFC, Super Bowl, taste tests, wings

The Latest In KFC Grilled Chicken Mayhem

Poor KFC. It seemed like such a good idea. New product; launch it with a giveaway. And then another, with a big-name celeb like Oprah to announce the coupons. KFC gets foot traffic; the people of America get free chicken. (And Oprah gets a few million more hits on her website.) So simple, right? Not quite. First, the website couldn’t handle the sudden online crush of chicken-seekers, making downloading the coupon impossible. Then, a KFC near New York’s Grand Central Station refused to honor customer coupons—despite, some report, clearly visible chicken waiting behind the counter—sparking a pretty intense outcry. (But not a "riot," KFC insists.) And to add insult to injury, California-based chain El Pollo Loco started a giveaway...

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6 Comments | Posted by Carey Jones, May 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Tagged: giveaways, grilled chicken, KFC, Oprah