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[jdmessner]

Today is the big meal. I cooked the chicken yesterday. It turned out great (in my humble opinion). I'll be anxious to hear what others have to say. I was able to fit 21 whole chickens on the grill for the first batch. The second batch had 9 chickens, three fatties, and a few rib tips I was experimenting with.

I cut the chicken in pieces last night and will vacuum seal them shortly. Since the bags can be cut to any length I am going to make them the length of a roaster. The plan  for reheating is to boil water and pour it over the bags laying in roasters. I tried this the other day on a small scale in a crock-pot. It seemed to work great. I let it sit in there for over 2 hours just to see what would happen. The chicken was hot, moist and tasted good. The skin was intact and not too badly compromised. We’ll see what happens today.

I have several pictures already and hope to have more to follow. I probably will not be able to post them until tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for the help and input!

[Kristin Meredith]

Sounds like everything is going smoothly and according to plan.  I bet you get a bunch a compliments.  We will be waiting for pics and a final report!

[jdmessner]

The big question I had when doing the chicken a day early was the best way to reheat it. Went with the vac seal with fairly good results.

I had another obligation when the chicken needed to be started. I gave instructions to a couple of other folks, who did it a little differently than I would have. I wanted the water to be boiling when poured over the chicken in the roaster. They poured hot water, but it was not boiling. It took a longer than anticipated for the chicken to reheat, but it did and it was good.

There was one bag that did not completely seal, so we had one batch reheated in the oven in a covered pan with chicken broath in the bottom. The vac seal chicken was much moister thenthe oven birds. Thumbs up to you Quadman750. Great idea!!
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[Bentley]

Yeah, if a person has access to vac sealing and boiling water to reheat.  It is by far the best way to reheat any food without drying it out.  Glad the day went well!