I roasted up a chicken last night.

[kestrel91316]

Nice plump fryer/roaster from Ralph's, on sale. Cast iron dutch oven (lid OFF). Unpeeled cloves of garlic. Herbes de Provence.

325 degree oven for 2 1/2 hours.

Orgasmically good. Skin crispied to perfection. Meat almost falling off bones.

[yellerpup]

1. What a perfume that must have created! eom

[Warpy]

2. Last one I did was in the solar oven

when I first got the thing: free range fryer with onion, celery and garlic in the breast cavity, rosemary, a little garlic salt and black pepper onto the butter rubbed skin, sitting in a cast iron pot, cheese cloth over the breast to keep it from drying out.

Because a lot of moisture was trapped in the solar cooker (something I didn't realize until its trial run), the skin didn't get all that crisp except on the very top.

However, it was the best roast chicken I've had in a very, very long time. I might have to do another one this year, I'm all out of the meat and broth I froze...

[Tab]

3. I like the cheap small store chickens

The Purdue and whatever are huge and tasteless. I've found much better results getting the small little cheap chickens. Brown on each side, then roast with herbs and butter.
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