Receta Spatchcocking a chicken for Pesach: the secret to moist, juicy, kosher chicken

Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been cooking up a storm, roasting a chicken, which fills up the house with all kinds of delicious fragrances while it's cooking, and then you bite into the chicken and...

AAAAAACK!!!! Dry! Dry! Dry!

There are some things that taste as good as they smell. But chicken is often not one of them. Dry chicken is like the eleventh plague of Pesach. (Just tying this in here to keep it seasonal!)

Another problem with roasting a whole chicken? By the time the thighs (way down at the bottom) are done, the breast (way up at the top) is overdone. We do all sorts of desperate things to prevent dryness in our chicken. Cooking it upside-down. Cooking it in bags. With fruit. Sticking a…