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The thread asking about brands for electric roaster, gave me the idea to ask: What do you ladies cook in an electric roaster? Any and all ideas of the types of things you use it for would be very helpful! I'm hoping to utilize it during the building of our house, to make the crunch time at mealtimes easier, and to help during times when the oven stove may be temporarily disconnected. TIA for any and all ideas!
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Meat would be the obvious thing -- turkey, beef roasts, pork roast, whole chicken, etc. I've also just left the carcass in the roaster, added water, and boiled it down for broth/stock/soup.
Large portions of things like mac and cheese. Lasagnas. Stews. Anything big -- mine has a 22-lb capacity. I made a huge thing of Greek pastizio not long ago.
I find my roaster to be really versatile, and while I'm using it less as the weather heats up (like a crockpot, it does belt out a lot of heat), I've definitely gotten my money's worth and more already. Mine was very inexpensive, too: about $25, on sale around Thanksgiving last year.
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We are considering one too and I'm interested to learn more. I've never had one and don't know how to use it. I would like to set one outside or in the basement to cook dinner instead of heating the kitchen up during the summer. My slow cooker is a heat machine and will heat up my house too! I could set the slow cooker outside/or basement too.
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When I was growing up, we had a big electric turkey roaster that some family member had passed on to my mother -- it was on wheels, with a metal cabinet underneath and the roaster on top. Before I was allowed to use the real stove and oven, I used to make blueberry muffins in it, and that was the first cooking I ever did.
I've never used my current roaster for baking, as in bready stuff, but I believe it would be possible. Mostly, though, it works like a big crockpot, except that you can turn the heat way up and cook things faster than in a slow cooker. In fact, it's far faster than I had expected and roasted my Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys in about a third of the time I had allotted -- but they were still very tender.
It's great for making big things of pulled pork for barbecue, too. I haven't done any major cooking-ahead lately -- I'm doing well to hang on day to day right now! -- but I do like that it has a large capacity, so that anything I make in it is a multiple-day meal.
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PS: I hadn't thought about it, but I could set it up on the back porch in the summer, to keep the kitchen from getting too hot to eat in.
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Oh definitely use it on the back porch. I do that in the summer all the time.
I make pinto beans and roasts, baked potatoes and granola and I've baked quick breads and enchiladas in it (kept in their own pan just set in. Oh and I love it for making broths.. I roast the turkey or whatever in it.. take out the meats and whatever juices we're using for gravy or whatever.. and then I put the carcass and such back into the roaster.. and fill it with water and let it simmer overnight, season and package it up for the freezer in the morning.
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Yes, I like that you can use it *as* the pan, or you can bake something in it in a smaller pan, as you would a regular oven. It really is a super-versatile thing to have around.
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