When you go to the butcher or grocery story you pay for convenience. I have never taken a whole chicken and spatchcocked it - which is taking the spine off which allows you to lay the chicken flat for grilling or smoking. This method cooks the chicken evenly and produces a wonderful end result that looks great. 

Buying a spatchcock chicken is easy and not really that much more expensive - but I do like to make the use of what a whole chicken gives you. When I cut the spine out - using kitchen shears or even a serrated bread knife - I get those bones to save for a future stock. I also like chicken hearts/livers pan seared with butter and a bit of salt. You also get the neck to save for stock. I try to like the gizzards but no matter what they are tough and chewy - there is a KFC in Hannibal Missouri that deep fries them and when I am in that area I get an order to go. 

Laying the whole chicken on my cutting board breast side down I cut down each side of the spine and turn...

This is for you backyard bbq folk that want an easier & faster way to cook a pork butt.

I HIGHLY recommend you up your backyard bbq space with a Pit Barrel Cooker (PBC) - link is HERE.

This is a super easy way of smoking meat that will make for the best BBQ you ever had - guaranteed! You can even grill with it as I have many times = a grill and smoker all in one. The PBC’s design is one that makes smoking meat easy for you to intuitively move from your Weber grill to this so that you expand your grilling skills. 

I took an 8lb pork butt and cut it in half and worked my knife around a bit of the shoulder bone - easy to do. 

Once I cut it in half - I  put some rub on it and you can find that HERE on Amazon. 

If you watch videos of guys putting rub on their ribs, butt’s and other protein - they are liberal with it and coat it so you can hardly see the meat - I do NOT do this as I want this to accent the protein and have smoke flavor the...