sanfairyanne
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Please can anyone help?
I have just spent three days cleaning my mothers oven. My mother has very little pride in keeping the kitchen clean. Whenever I visit I do the best I can to help out. It crossed my mind that the oven must be getting oil splatters when she roasts potatoes or a chicken in an open roasting tray. I thought about buying her a roasting pot (picture attached). I have seen some of these pots with a wire tray (attached picture), the meat would sit on the tray. I assume this allows the heat to mix evenly. With my limited knowledge of cooking I assume if you wanted to roast potatoes they would have to be sitting in the juice from the chicken. So a wire tray would be no use. The white roasting pot in the picture is enamelled and has no wire tray. Can anyone suggest if this would provide a good way of cooking a roast chicken with roast potatoes. Also am I right in saying that an enamelled pot will be easier to clean than a stainless steel one. Perhaps this method isn't recommended at all. It did cross my mind that perhaps a chicken might not cook so well if it is fully enclose in a pot. Any advice would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
I have just spent three days cleaning my mothers oven. My mother has very little pride in keeping the kitchen clean. Whenever I visit I do the best I can to help out. It crossed my mind that the oven must be getting oil splatters when she roasts potatoes or a chicken in an open roasting tray. I thought about buying her a roasting pot (picture attached). I have seen some of these pots with a wire tray (attached picture), the meat would sit on the tray. I assume this allows the heat to mix evenly. With my limited knowledge of cooking I assume if you wanted to roast potatoes they would have to be sitting in the juice from the chicken. So a wire tray would be no use. The white roasting pot in the picture is enamelled and has no wire tray. Can anyone suggest if this would provide a good way of cooking a roast chicken with roast potatoes. Also am I right in saying that an enamelled pot will be easier to clean than a stainless steel one. Perhaps this method isn't recommended at all. It did cross my mind that perhaps a chicken might not cook so well if it is fully enclose in a pot. Any advice would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
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