Re: Sunday Dinner Feb 2

On 2/3/2025 1:46 PM, fos@sdf.org wrote:

On 2025-02-03, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

It was a roasted chicken. My wife did the cooking. She roasted potatoes
and carrots in the chicken pan and steamed some Brussels Sprouts. The
chicken, along with everything else, was perfectly cooked.

 we cooked a whole chicken in a covered roaster. i didn't want to,
she insisted. i don't recall ever cooking one like that. everything
except the breasts nearly fell off the bones. the skin was rubbery
which was fine with her since she doesn't eat it anyway. was
tasty but i wasn't fond of the texture, and i really enjoy
crispy browned skin which there was exactly none of. that was a
first and last. am going back to an open baking dish.

I usually roast a chicken in a covered roaster, and mine has an inverted lid where the condensation drips onto the bird to "self baste".  That said, the last half hour, I always leave the top off to crisp and brown up a bit.