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Looooong cooking chook
frenchbean Started conversation Jun 7, 2008
I have just cooked a chook in a pot in the oven. According to the sainted Hugh (F-W) it should have taken 50 mins plus 35 mins.
After 2hrs 15mins it is finally done
Why did it take so long? I'm befuddled....
Looooong cooking chook
Hypatia Posted Jun 7, 2008
Ok,Fb. What is a chook? And do we get a recipe? 
Hyp (showing her ignorance)
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 7, 2008
Sounds like maybe you need to invest in an oven thermometer Fb.
It's a chicken, Hyp 
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Jun 7, 2008
This doesn't exactly help matters, but I've noticed that chook-cooking times in cookbooks are never, ever right. Sometimes they're not even plausible. I thought it was just me... Or maybe we have heat-resistant poultry here, Fb.
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frenchbean Posted Jun 8, 2008
Heat-resistant poultry 
That would explain it
An oven thermometor is a cracking idea, Gosho Thank you.
It was a free-range, organic, cornfed (and very expensive) chicken, of which I had High Hopes. Although it was deliciously moist, it was disappointingly tasteless 
The last time I had a really decent chicken was Charlie Casserole, made from a rooster than friends of mine dispatched to the great chicken run in the sky. They let his carcass hang for 2 days and then made it into the most delicious stew 
I have a feeling that shop-bought chook will never match Charlie and of course the solution to that is to start keeping my own chooks Possibly...
By the way, it's good to see that there are still some folk subscribed to this page
Fb
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 8, 2008
A good oven thermometer is worth its weight in gold. I wondered why my cakes took so long to bake and came out flat as a nun's 
until I bought one of these devices and found that the actual temperature inside my oven was 75° less than the dial said it was
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted Jun 8, 2008
I might hunt down a thermometer too, next time I'm near the hilariously pretentious yet oddly affordable kitchen gadget shop.
And I'd forgotten all about this page. 
It has been a long time, hasn't it?
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 8, 2008
I bought mine from the incredibly unpretentious and unbelievably low-priced restaurant supply store 
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Hypatia Posted Jun 8, 2008
The Circle compound has been seriously neglected. Thanks for starting a new thread, Fb.
Chicken is one of those things you simply can't eat underdone. The thought turns my stomach. And I've suffered with an oven that didn't heat to the temperature on the dial, also. You definitely need an oven thermometer.
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frenchbean Posted Jun 9, 2008
Oven thermometor is now on my shopping list (also known as the Frenchbean's Memory 
).
Pork's the other thing you can't eat underdone - something to do with tapeworms if I remember rightly
Lovely to see you about, Hyp 
You are missed.
Fb
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