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Jack O'Keeffe

Jack O'Keeffe

Culinary Project Lead at Gather & Gather, TV chef on Ireland AM, and private caterer based in Cork, Ireland.

Aug 7, 2026

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3:06
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3:06
... of how to make it perfect is, uh, get a full chicken, not a massive one, a smaller one.
3:09
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.
3:15
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.
3:22
There's hundreds of YouTube videos on how to spatchcock a chicken.
3:25
It's really easy.
3:26
Or support your local butcher, and he'll do it for you.
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6:31
Burnt pepper is the wrong kind of burn for, uh, for what you're looking for there, yeah.
40:33
Tell me, Jack, have you had anybody come up to you and say, "Teach us how to build one of these"?
40:37
Yes, we have, and I think that that is quite likely to happen.
40:42
Uh, Padraig, um, Ó Tuama got involved in some discussion about it with the people in Vigo.
40:50
And it, you know, it doesn't take much to build one, just a bit of enthusiasm and a week or so, or two.
40:57
The problem for boats in this climate is that we tend to use bitumen-related coatings on them.
42:01
Mm.
42:01
We share similar weather.
42:03
Uh, we share similar music.

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