Cooking in the Heat: Roaster Oven

Note: I wrote this post one year ago, but when I tried to update it yesterday Blogger wouldn't let me. I think it's funny what I used to cook in there. Now I have cooked sweet potatoes and roasts. I'm going to try this meatza soon.

I am NOT complaining about the heat here at all. Believe me. It was 49 degrees here the other night. My tomatoes are never going to grow!

However, there have been a couple (yes, two) hot days here. Days where I actually turned the air conditioner on. It's rare that I use my oven in the summer. However, when the BBQ doesn't have any propane and I have some chicken to cook, I use my cheater oven.

This is a big roaster oven I picked up just for that reason.

Summer Cooking/Baking.

Normally people cook turkeys in these big huge monsters. I have baked bread, quiche, and meat in this roaster oven. The quiche's crust was DISGUSTING. I don't recommend that at all! The bread and meat have been wonderful. I think it cooks at a lower temperature than you set it at, but I've never used my thermometer to test this. I have it set up in my garage all the time so it doesn't heat up my house up and I don't have to dig it out of storage every time I want to use it.

Beware though - it gets really really really HOT!

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