Cave Tools Roasting and Grill Rack, Stainless Steel BBQ Accessories for Smoker, Grill or Oven, Dishwasher Safe - Beer Can Chicken & Turkey Holder Roasting Pan with Vegetable Spikes

I've used this gadget twice so far and made fantasticly tender chicken!! I'm a grilled chicken novice and TWICE the bird has come out of the Traeger looking like a pro grilled it! I brine a whole chicken 5-6lb overnight in the fridge. At 1100 next day, remove bird from brine and bring to room temp before setting the grill temp to 225° Pour applejuice & water with some sliced lemons in the center cup, rub the chicken inside & out with olive oil, sprinkle my favorite Kosmos Dirty Bird chicken seasoning on the inside and place the bird firmly onto the cup. Liberally sprinkle the outside of the bird with the seasoning. Set the temperature probe in breast alarm to 165° and place the tray on the grill. Walk away. I leave it ALONE. It takes several hours to get up to temp and let it rest 20-30min before carving but boy it's incredibly juicy!! The tray allows you to catch all the drippings for gravy or au jus and prevents all that yummy goodness from mucking up your grill. The parts & tray have cleaned beautifully, and very easily for me and I am the home's dishwasher. Product says it is dishwasher safe! P.S. It doesn't matter what you put in the cup (water, apple juice, or beer) the chicken will turn out great!

I never used a utensil like this before. It was really easy. The base plate is a thick stainless steel piece. It remains solid throughout the cook and did not deflect. The stainless steel liquid container is nice. The design lets you twist it into the base so it remains attached making removal of the chicken easy. The container has a wide mouth screw on top that allows you to easily fill it and also put herbs in. Ours came with 3 spike sets for vegetables. The potatos we made were a nice touch. Clean up was quick rinse and then into the dishwasher. This is a good product and we recommend it to those considering beer can chicken.

It did a good job, I'm ordering a 2nd one, it wasn't messy like other beer can chicken holders, the meat juices didn't drip all over the grill, it was easier to handle, the can didn't fall over, the chicken didn't wobble around or fall over when trying to turn it. It was a little hard to clean afterwards though, I had to use a wool scratch pad to clean it, next time I'll put Pam cooking oil in the pan first.

About halfway through my first cook with this product, I realized that stuffing a beer can into a chicken is a ridiculous concept. Even if the beer is warm, you are stuffing it into a cold chicken, and trying to get the chicken to an internal temperature of 165 - which means that the beer never gets to a temperature where it would boil, and it's blocking airflow through the internal cavity of the chicken and lining the internal cavity with metal that is cooler than the temperature of the grill/smoker. This prevents the chicken from cooking from the inside out, which means it will take longer to cook. This tends to over cook the outside of the chicken - think of the chicken and beer as one solid mass that you are trying to heat from the outside in. If you are trying to smoke a chicken, as I was, just pour beer into the water bath if you are trying to add flavor and keep the chicken moist (I have not done this yet, but will next time). If you want to just use the rack without the container, however, it's not a bad idea to cook the chicken in an upright position, and the rack will hold the cavity open to allow heat to cook from the inside. For me, after over two hours at 350 degrees, the chicken still wasn't fully cooked, and after removing the chicken, the liquid level in the can was almost exactly the same as when I started - so it didn't evaporate or add flavor. If you do want to use it as a container for beer, it's definitely better to put your beer in stainless instead of putting an actual beer can up against the meat, as there could be contamination from plastics, paint, etc., from the beer cans label. It's a good product developed for a very misguided, although very popular, concept.

One of the things I love about this setup is that I pour the beer into a separate container. I dont have to worry about how the heat is affecting the chemicals or paints on the can and what that's doing to my food. I also like that it locks in place, so there's less struggle to take the chicken off. I let the beer I've poured come up to room temperature, that way it boils faster in the grill. This setup is easy to use, easy to clean, traps the drippings very nicely, and produces nice results. To be honest, I always brine my chickens overnight anyway, but using this produced a bird that my wife dubbed "a keeper". I haven't used the tines to hold veggies yet but that's coming. Very highly recommend.

Works as advertised and is easy to clean but the beer can is a bit on the thin side so you have to be careful when opening to clean. Seems like it could easily be bent out of shape. I really like it though!

This is the best beer can chicken roaster you can buy! So much safer and healtier than a used beer/soda can that has been coated with formaldehyde. The stainless steel is a so easy to clean, comes out of the dishwasher looking like new. There is no warping of the pan on the grill and it is so much easier to get the chicken from the grill to the kitchen. It can also be used in the oven and catches all of the juices. If you are a gravy lover the drippings are contained and ready to be made into gravy. Another plus is that on the grill the juices/fat drippings are contained and not all over the grill interior. My husband (grill master) was thrilled with this. We have used many other apparatuses made for beer can chicken and this is by far the best! The quality makes it so worth the cost,

I have been grilling Beercan chicken for many years. I retired my two chicken rack and needed something new. I liked the look of this tool, the Cave Tools, Beer and chicken cooker. The pan to catch the drippings seemed like a good idea, but, I was concerned that the pan might prevent the browning and crimping of the chicken. I was happily surprised to see my chicken come off the grill, perfectly browned and crisp on the outside, and juicy, moist, and delicious on the inside. The rendered fat was caught in the pan. That made cleaning up my grill much easier. This is really, a great tool. I think you will agree. When you are finished, wipe it down and put it in the dishwasher.