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Wash the chickens well, pat dry and coat with oil on all sides.
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Mix together ingredients for dry rub and split the rub between the chickens, coating each well.
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3
Choose your beverage.
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The friend whose recipe I began with used apple juice and its a nice, no-nonsense flavor that doesnt disagree with the dry rub.
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I emptied 2 cans of Diet Coke and filled them half full each of apple juice.
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Preheat your grill to 350 degrees , allowing for indirect heat (if you have three burners, use only one and three for cooking).
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If you have a 2-burner grill, turn off the one that isnt necessary for gas flow.
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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.
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Repeat with Chicken Number Two.
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Close the grill and leave it alone for one and a quarter hours.
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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.
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12
Remove cooked chickens from grill, remove the cans and allow birds to stand 10 minutes before carving.
