I currently don't have a stove or regular oven and decided to cook food using a roaster oven. I haven't ever used a roaster oven in the past and recently purchased a 18 Quart Nesco with convection fan and another older 18 quart used roaster oven.
I have some frozen turkeys and chickens I would like to cook up. After reading several articles I found frozen poultry can be cooked in a roaster oven only you need to pay attention to the length of cooking time as frozen poultry cooks different from thawed. I.e. starting from the outside inward.
IIRC, certain outer parts of a turkey such as the neck and breasts take longer to cook. Total cooking time is longer than when cooking a thawed turkey by iirc ~2 to ~3+ hours, depending on the size of the turkey.
Overall everything seems simple enough however I would also like to cook vegetables including potatoes at the same time.
I'm thinking if there's not enough room in the roaster's cooking pan with a turkey or chickens, of using a second roaster oven to cook the vegetables I'm wondering if there are any methods for cooking vegetables by them selves in a roaster oven and/or along with e.g. a turkey or 2 or 3 chickens.
Would it be better to wrap the vegetables and potatoes in aluminum foil? Allow them cook unwapped, etc. I thin something will be needed to hold the vegetables if using a directly from the roaster rack. I read something you can place a certain amount of water in the roaster pan cooking vegetable directly from the bottom of the pan.
I'm sort of new to this type of cooking, in the past mostly cooked using covered and uncovered pots, pans, glass bowls, etc.
I don't think the vegetable will take nearly as long to cook so I would need to add them after a while to a cooking turkey or start them later if using a second roaster oven.
I'm not certain what temperature to set the roaster oven to cook a turkey or 2 or 3 chickens. Perhaps start a 450 or 425 deg. F and then reduce oven temperature to 325 or 350 after a while?
I have one of those meat thermometers laying around somewhere I think the turkey requires to be at least 165 deg. F internally?
I have some frozen turkeys and chickens I would like to cook up. After reading several articles I found frozen poultry can be cooked in a roaster oven only you need to pay attention to the length of cooking time as frozen poultry cooks different from thawed. I.e. starting from the outside inward.
IIRC, certain outer parts of a turkey such as the neck and breasts take longer to cook. Total cooking time is longer than when cooking a thawed turkey by iirc ~2 to ~3+ hours, depending on the size of the turkey.
Overall everything seems simple enough however I would also like to cook vegetables including potatoes at the same time.
I'm thinking if there's not enough room in the roaster's cooking pan with a turkey or chickens, of using a second roaster oven to cook the vegetables I'm wondering if there are any methods for cooking vegetables by them selves in a roaster oven and/or along with e.g. a turkey or 2 or 3 chickens.
Would it be better to wrap the vegetables and potatoes in aluminum foil? Allow them cook unwapped, etc. I thin something will be needed to hold the vegetables if using a directly from the roaster rack. I read something you can place a certain amount of water in the roaster pan cooking vegetable directly from the bottom of the pan.
I'm sort of new to this type of cooking, in the past mostly cooked using covered and uncovered pots, pans, glass bowls, etc.
I don't think the vegetable will take nearly as long to cook so I would need to add them after a while to a cooking turkey or start them later if using a second roaster oven.
I'm not certain what temperature to set the roaster oven to cook a turkey or 2 or 3 chickens. Perhaps start a 450 or 425 deg. F and then reduce oven temperature to 325 or 350 after a while?
I have one of those meat thermometers laying around somewhere I think the turkey requires to be at least 165 deg. F internally?
