mariadnoca
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A couple weeks ago I bought two chickens at Costco, because that’s how whole chickens come there and I wanted at least one to roast and make homemade stock. Turns out I got so sick with a cold I couldn’t cook for days. I had to throw the chicken away
Fast-forward to this week, I again go to Costco so I buy the two whole chickens again, realize I didn’t get organic last time, about fainted at the price for two organic chickens, $30!, but bought them anyway. I planned to roast them today.
So this really smart-alec, think you’re organized, gonna food saver a bunch of individual packages of chicken for the freezer girl, goes to roast them, and realizes her roasting pan isn’t big enough for two birds. You see I have a fancy roasting pan that was way up in the covered buried and never used cupboard from 1985 because when I did Thanksgiving, I had a huge 30 pound turkey. i have/used a commercial restaurant roasting pan that’s ginormous, but I thought that roasting pan up in the cupboard was bigger than the one I used for just individual chickens (that technically may not even be a roasting pan). So I haul out that fancy roasting pan and find out it’s only like 12 x 16. And I thought, ugh. That seems small. The only person on the web that said what size pan it should be for two birds was Martha, 12x18. I can’t find any roasting pan that size besides all clad for $300 (on sale). My ginormous roasting pan absolutely dwarfs two birds, it’s 18 x 24, it just barely fits inside of my wall oven. So much for being smarty pants organized and frugal.
> side note: why are so many roasting pans nonstick? Who would want to miss deglazing that?
So, I’m hoping two side by side pans will work. I can’t believe pan size didn’t even occur to me. I thought oh I have that fancy one, and the big one, even moms old oval one, then didn’t give roasting pan a second thought.
Silly me.![Zany face :zany_face: 🤪](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f92a.png)
This is what I get for trying to shop at Costco.
PS
After more research, I’m going to try my “fancy” roaster after reading all the cuisinart reviews (it was #1 atk and food and wine). It’s 16” and reviewers say 2 chicken fit ok. I was thinking they’d be too close to cook properly, but I’ll experiment. Mine is calphalon ss, looks almost identical and is marked 16 1/2”, and…it’s already in my kitchen.![Crossed fingers :fingers_crossed: 🤞](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f91e.png)
Fast-forward to this week, I again go to Costco so I buy the two whole chickens again, realize I didn’t get organic last time, about fainted at the price for two organic chickens, $30!, but bought them anyway. I planned to roast them today.
So this really smart-alec, think you’re organized, gonna food saver a bunch of individual packages of chicken for the freezer girl, goes to roast them, and realizes her roasting pan isn’t big enough for two birds. You see I have a fancy roasting pan that was way up in the covered buried and never used cupboard from 1985 because when I did Thanksgiving, I had a huge 30 pound turkey. i have/used a commercial restaurant roasting pan that’s ginormous, but I thought that roasting pan up in the cupboard was bigger than the one I used for just individual chickens (that technically may not even be a roasting pan). So I haul out that fancy roasting pan and find out it’s only like 12 x 16. And I thought, ugh. That seems small. The only person on the web that said what size pan it should be for two birds was Martha, 12x18. I can’t find any roasting pan that size besides all clad for $300 (on sale). My ginormous roasting pan absolutely dwarfs two birds, it’s 18 x 24, it just barely fits inside of my wall oven. So much for being smarty pants organized and frugal.
> side note: why are so many roasting pans nonstick? Who would want to miss deglazing that?
So, I’m hoping two side by side pans will work. I can’t believe pan size didn’t even occur to me. I thought oh I have that fancy one, and the big one, even moms old oval one, then didn’t give roasting pan a second thought.
Silly me.
![Zany face :zany_face: 🤪](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f92a.png)
This is what I get for trying to shop at Costco.
PS
After more research, I’m going to try my “fancy” roaster after reading all the cuisinart reviews (it was #1 atk and food and wine). It’s 16” and reviewers say 2 chicken fit ok. I was thinking they’d be too close to cook properly, but I’ll experiment. Mine is calphalon ss, looks almost identical and is marked 16 1/2”, and…it’s already in my kitchen.
![Crossed fingers :fingers_crossed: 🤞](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f91e.png)
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