How many chicken breasts could be cooked at one time, with the lid down? It looks as though the cooking surface is about 90 sq. in. with lid down?
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The plates measure 13 inches wide and 10 inches deep. You do need to keep your chicken breasts or steaks or sandwiches a little inside those measurements just to get good heating-coverage from the top plate. Eleven-12 inches by 8-9 inches is truly usable cooking space with the lid down, so your estimate is good. Twelve by 9 inches would be max. I would say. As for chicken breasts, use the boneless ones so that they are similar thicknesses to one another. If you pound them, then they will spread out, and take up more space, obviously. Pounded breasts, maybe four. If they are not pounded, I would say that you can get five on: three running north and south, and another two running east and west. I would think that would be the maximum. usually. However, if you really crowd them, and are creative about spacing, you might get eight small, boneless chicken breasts onto the grill. If I were doing something like that, I would move the outside breasts into the center for part of the cooking time.
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The minimum I cook is one cup, and there is never any problem. I don't think it would be worth cooking less. It has never boiled and bubbled to the top
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Sorry but I am not sure. I usually cook a whole chicken on it...about 3 to 5 lbs. You probably could put a small turkey or capon on it but I think the legs would be far over the sides so you would have to put it on a flat pan in the oven to catch the dripping juices. Hope that makes sense.sml
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I agree with another comment about ribs - you would need to cut the slab. As for other meats, I have cooked a whole chicken (typical small fryer) and about a 3 to 4 lb brisket
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From the product description: 13.1 x 9.1 x 4.9 inches. From practical use, we roast chickens in it no problem and we recently did a pork shoulder butt roast. The pork roast was about 2lbs de-boned. There was room to spare. Great small roasting pan.
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That shouldn't be a problem. I normally use indirect heat, so I cook 1 chicken with only 2 burners on.
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About 3 or 4 depending on the size of the chicken breasts. You can cook them frozen but better results if thawed. Takes about 8 minutes if thawed. I hope this helps.
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We are a family of two and the 6 qt is just great and does the jobs with no problems. I think you have to ask how much food do you prepare in a single setting for 4 people. In a 6 qt we can do a 6 pound chicken and a 5 pound roast so anything larger than that I have no information.
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I have only cooked the 3 1/2 lb type of chicken.....I am sure you could go larger for one chicken at a time. If you do two chickens I would stick to the 3 1/2lb type.
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based on my experience, i did use this pan at 350 degrees but only for 40 min to bake chicken breasts or thigh fillets. Just be careful not to overcook as it is difficult to clean the charred portions. It is a steal at $28 prime, but the effort to clean this and the set of cuisinart is so much of a hassle. hope this helps.
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My experience with this unit, so far, is that it does not maintain a temperature high enough to fry chicken. I try to keep the frying temperature at a minimum of 320 degrees, after the chicken is placed in the pan. I've only tried this a couple of times with drum sticks and thighs and both times the temperature fell below 300 degrees. I plan to try it again with wings or other smaller pieces and limiting the number of pieces being fried at one time. It's a nice spacious pan and perhaps I put too many pieces in at one time. Ron...
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definitely no small whole chicken (the 6 or 8 qt would work better), maybe a 1 to 1.5lb roast.the 4 qt sounds big but it's really not, you can only fill it up to 3/4 capacity and then whatever you are cooking needs liquid or it'll burn.it works for me cause I only cook for myself but if you're cooking for a family get a bigger version
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I usually cooked two at a time, but there was definitely room for a third or even fourth, depending on how much liquid you add. If you use frozen chicken, you need less liquid...it makes its own broth. Still, be sure to calculate space if you want to include onions or other veggies -- if you're doing that, stick with two. Or just chop the meat up in chunks or strips, stir-fry style!
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I cooked an 8 lb whole chicken... and that looked to be about the max size... however, I will be giving my ronco rotisserie away as it is too much hassle with the clean up... I'd rather just grill the chicken... or whatever
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Jon, I honestly don't know but I would imagine it would hold quite a bit. This is not a small cooker...I love it. If you can picture a full size chicken in it there is still plenty of room...height wise. It measures 4" deep...excluding the lid. Hope this helps. Marcia Ooops, saw someone's answer....6 qts.
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There are 4 racks in the smoker and they measure 18X36 roughly. You should get 15 leg quarters to each rack easy. As to cooking time i cook whole chickens in about 3 hours or less running the smoker at about 240-260. Your time should be less i would bet. I would think with 4 racks loaded with chicken figure minimum 2.5 hours.good luck, i hope they turn out great
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The oil is very easy to clean. That's no problem. I just find that it's just too small and doesn't make very much at a time. I regret buying it. You will only fit 2 chicken breasts at a time. That 8-cup claim is sheer nonsense!