I’ve visited Germany many times for work, and love the rotisserie chicken that is popular there. There’s even a fast food chain called IIRC Huenchen (means hen I think). Well, my local grocery store has rotisserie chicken and in my opinion it is inedible. I don’t know what they do their chicken but it is awful.
Well, last week at Sam’s I saw they had a table top oven for making rotisserie chicken. Since it also can be used to dehydrate I bought it, for about $125 or so. Of course I bought some chickens as well. The first attempt was a failure. Sam’s chickens are too big for this oven, wish it was a little bigger. So I bought a slightly smaller version from the local grocery and it turned out pretty good.
I cooked the first chicken without any spices, just trying to get the hang of the cooker. The cooker has a “preset” for chicken, which is 40 minutes 370 deg F. I had to cook for 3 such sessions, so I decided it was done at 2 hours. My son and I both were very pleased with the crunchy skin which unlike my oven roast chicken was perfectly crispy all over the chicken.
Today I cooked two Cornish game hens, brushed with salt, pepper, paprika, and butter. I used two 40 minute sessions. Son and I agree it was very good.
It’s a learning curve to install the fork like spit attachments, and to use cooking string to secure the birds. I’m looking forward to trying different recipes, including a small pork roast, may be a rib roast. I’ll try dehydrating some red habaneros I love.