Weber 6731 Poultry Roaster

I've been doing "drunken" chickens on the grill for years, up to three at a time on occasion, using beer-can holders. The chickens always came out great, but handling them both before and after roasting was always a pain. So I was always on the lookout for a better way to do this.When I saw this item, I decided to buy it, in part because it had a lot of positive reviews, but also because the design looked to be much less cumbersome than beer-can holders Also, with this roaster, I could cook with wine or something else not normally sold in a can.I did my first drunken chicken with it today (a Sunday) and was more than pleased with how everything went. Getting the chicken set up was a snap, due to the removable infusion cone. I found that inserting the cone into ... MoreI've been doing "drunken" chickens on the grill for years, up to three at a time on occasion, using beer-can holders. The chickens always came out great, but handling them both before and after roasting was always a pain. So I was always on the lookout for a better way to do this.When I saw this item, I decided to buy it, in part because it had a lot of positive reviews, but also because the design looked to be much less cumbersome than beer-can holders Also, with this roaster, I could cook with wine or something else not normally sold in a can.I did my first drunken chicken with it today (a Sunday) and was more than pleased with how everything went. Getting the chicken set up was a snap, due to the removable infusion cone. I found that inserting the cone into the chicken and then setting the chicken together with the cone onto the roaster was easier than trying to set the chicken on the cone while it was sitting on the roaster. While the grill was heating up (400 degrees), I rubbed down the roaster's ceramic surfaces with canola oil, filled the center of the roaster with regular beer (hint: let the beer come up to room temperature before pouring it into the roaster), and set the chicken in place. After popping the infusion cap in place and giving the old clucker a thorough rub-down with oil oil and seasonings, it was grill-time.The design of this roaster makes transporting the chicken to the grill easy—just pick up the roaster by the ends and set it on the grates (as near to center as possible for even roasting). I roast the chicken with the end burners lit and the center burner off, the so-called indirect heating method—you do not want a burner lit that is directly under the roaster!.After a little more than an hour on the grill, the chicken was ready and looked fantastic. Unlike in the past with the beer can holders, which required that I lift the chicken with some forks to get it off the grates, this time I merely used some oven mitts to pick up the roaster, Removing the chicken from the roaster itself was a snap, and before long, dinner was served. The chicken was perfect in all respects and I was able to make a tasty gravy from the drippings that collected in the roaster's base. As for clean-up, the roaster can go into the dishwasher.If you like to roast chickens this way and are not using this product, you don't know what you are missing. This roaster is well worth the price. I plan to buy a second one for occasions when I need to roast two chickens.I recommend this product.

We’ve had one of these for 15 years, and just bought another for our vacation home. It’s non stick finish washes easily. You can use whatever liquid you like- we usually use white wine. The chicken is crispy on the outside and supper moist on the inside. Roast in the middle of your barbecue with indirect heat, meaning the outer burners are on high, but the burner(s) under the chicken are off or on low. It’s is a tad on the expensive side, but you’ll only need one. It is very sturdy. The base makes great potatoes cooked in chicken fat! Yum! It also makes a wonderful gift for the foodie friends or family that are hard to buy for

First, it had some sort of black ash coating on it that's still on the recessed underside. What a mess to initially clean! Second, it said to cook the poultry to 180 degrees but the igrill probes claimed it would be done at 165 and didn't give an option to raise it. I followed the igrill probes and it wasn't cooked enough. The pan did hold the grease from the chicken but I'm glad I didn't add vegs to it as they would have been cooked in the grease. It also didn't seem to infuse the chicken with any of the apple cider I used. Strange. On the plus side clean up of the ceramic parts was easy but that bottom is still very ashy under the indent. Weber should have fixed this before shipping the product out to the public. EW!