Grilled Chicken---4-H, FFA sauce recipe

It was a common event when I was growing up for the FFA chapter, or the 4-h chapter or some church to have BBQ chicken dinners for sale. I helped with several. Once I was with a group and we cooked 1000 halves over a pit we made from stacked cinder blocks and expanded metal grates that made turning easy. We sprayed the chicken with this sauce out of pump up sprayers and we cooked the halves for maybe an hour and half.

Since those days I have used the easy to make sauce on pieces on a hot charcoal grill. I like wings and thighs. Here is a recipe from Grit Magazine (do you remember kids that sold Grit door to door?) LINK

I cook the pieces over a hot fire much like I do hamburgers. It took about 25 minutes to do these tonight. Brush on the sauce regularly.

I really like the vinegar, salt, spicy combination flavor of the "sauce".

Charcoal is the best way to grill hands down IMHO. I use those cheap electric starters and have never bought lighter fluid in the last 30 years. The grill is my Charbroil 940x--the greatest grill I have ever owned. They quit making them last year after having made them since the 40s or 50s--I suspect they were too heavy and a tad bit expensive for the markets CharBroil goes after these days. This grill is probably 12 years old and the one before it I owned over 20 years.

Here is pit similar to what we would use except this one is obviously permanent.