TMZ reports,

"He sings, he dances … he cooks? Damn right he does! And Christopher Walken is going out of his way to make sure you respect his culinary skills!

"A homemade video of His Royal Cowbellness whipping together a mouthwatering baked chicken dish was recently submitted to video-based recipe-swapping website Imcooked.com. It’s been long rumored that the celebrity chef was looking to host his own cooking show — but was anyone expecting a grassroots YouTube-style campaign?"

The film is so edited that it’s hard to gauge Walken’s food safety prowess, something we found lacking in most celebrity chefs. Nevertheless, in Walken’s variation of the beer can chicken, he insists on washing the bird, a food safety no-no.

In a Dec. 24, 2004 article in the National Post, Fergus Clydesdale, who runs the food science department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was on the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, was quoted as saying, "The risk of cross-contamination through washing poultry is far greater than shoving it in the oven without washing it, which makes the risk almost zero."

Also, there was no obvious use of a meat thermometer, the only way to tell if that bird has reached the desired temperature (color is a lousy indicator).

I gotta have more cowbell.