Thanks for the tl, indeed yur(I) camp vibes this time
I don't know what it is with this series tho, but couple times in a row with poor, and now potentially dangerous info- DO NOT PUT RAW VEGGIES/UNCOOKED food to stuff a whole chicken/poultry! Especially NOT FROZEN ingredients.
Yes they mentioned practicing to get it right and at least 30min of cooking, but there is no mention of cooking temperature because it was open fire nor a temperature check of the bird (and especially of the stuffing), nor of how stuffed the cavity was (and looked like quite a lot).
I noted cast iron's retentive heat properties in the last chapter comments, and YES- they do make it basically function as an oven here with the coals on top and bottom. And a few veggies inside or herbs for flavor wouldn't likely be an issue. But fully stuffing the cavity of a raw bird with raw ingredients is not a good practice. At the VERY least, the stuffing should be PRE-COOKED. Japan's poultry industry in general is considered pretty safe from Salmonella food poisoning, but with any modern food industry system, this is still a potential recipe for disaster. The bird's inner cavity has air pockets (poor conductor of heat) and the additional mass of the stuffing itself will require MORE time and heat to come to the same temperature as the bird, especially if stuffing is raw (I'm assuming they implied pre-cooked frozen rice pilaf in the chapter, but to be clear, don't put it in FROZEN). This means the interior of the chicken has a good chance of being undercooked (and outer regions overcooked) and the stuffing will have some the raw, bacterial juices of the chicken on it. Salmonella food poisoning or just undercooked poultry is very much a thing that happens with a stuffed bird, especially for the inexperienced around holiday seasons. Always temperature check your food with a meat probe thermometer to desired temp and doneness if you are unsure.