
Jack O'Keeffe
Culinary Project Lead at Gather & Gather, TV chef on Ireland AM, and private caterer based in Cork, Ireland.
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Aug 7, 2026
How do you get that charred texture without a barbecue?
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Jack O'KeeffeGUEST
... of how to make it perfect is, uh, get a full chicken, not a massive one, a smaller one.

Jack O'KeeffeGUEST
Like, we call them a 1,200, so the, the 1.2 kilo chickens that you get in your supermarket or your butcher, and spatchcock it.

Jack O'KeeffeGUEST
So just with s- sharp scissors or a knife, cut down left-hand side and right-hand side of the spine and remove the backbone, and crack it open nice and flat.
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6:31speaker_0HOST
Burnt pepper is the wrong kind of burn for, uh, for what you're looking for there, yeah.
Our half lost cousins - Lyric Feature
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Theo DorganHOST
Tell me, Jack, have you had anybody come up to you and say, "Teach us how to build one of these"?

Jack O'KeeffeGUEST
Uh, Padraig, um, Ó Tuama got involved in some discussion about it with the people in Vigo.

Jack O'KeeffeGUEST
And it, you know, it doesn't take much to build one, just a bit of enthusiasm and a week or so, or two.

Jack O'KeeffeGUEST
The problem for boats in this climate is that we tend to use bitumen-related coatings on them.