After buying a Cobb last week, i've just used it over the weekend for cooking chicken portions. They took nearly 2 hours to cook. Is this about right as it seems rather a long time. I used 9 heat beads and the chicken leg portions were quite big, they covered the roasting rack completely. I must admit that I removed the lid a few times just out of curiosity to see how they were getting on as it was the first time...is this why they took so long?
Has anyone any thoughts on this?
Use more heat beads then they say everytime... Do not lift the lid or you use the heat. A cobb in effect really is like an oven rather than a barbecue.
I bought a cobb relatively recently & found that the cooking times were longer than the recipe book said they should be. I've since read (on this forum) that the newer cobbs with the mesh sides take longer to cook. This makes sense as the cooling effect from the surrounding air will be greater.
I took a lot of the guesswork out of cooking with the cobb when I bought a digital oven thermometer from ebay. Now all I have to do is set the temperature that I want the core of the meat to reach, insert the probe into the cobb & an alarm sounds when its cooked.
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Topic: Cobb cooking times
