[Sca-cooks] turkey roasters

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

> So, how are these different from putting a roasting pan in the oven? 
> Perhaps in a roasting bag? What are the pros and cons of each? What 
> else might these roasters be used for? chicken(s)? a pork or beef roast? 


As Jadwiga said, they are essentially a huge crock pot.  They can be 
used for chicken - you can fit two or more in there, as well as pork or 
beef roasts.  You can also use them for huge pots of soup or stewed 
veggies.  The advantages over an oven are that, well, if you're cooking 
a huge Thanksgiving feast, it doesn't tie up your oven for 5 hours.  You 
can put it in a corner of the dining room or out in the garage or 
anywhere out of the way.  And, it does truely cook the turkey in about 
half the time.  I assume this has to do with it's size - the turkey fits 
in it pretty snugly, so the heating is more conductive rather than 
convective.

I do recommend the kind with the warming pan inserts, like Jadwiga 
mentioned.  When I went to buy mine, I looked for that kind and 
apparantly they were out of production.  Dissapointed, I bought another 
kind.  A few weeks later, I found the ones with the warming pans.  
Apparantly they were making them again.

-Magdalena vander Brugghe

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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