cooking a 4lb.chicken
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The recipe book provided with the halogen cooker, has few instructions about cooking chicken, specifying temperature settings and time of cooking.
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I have never cooked a 4 lb chicken but have cooked a 8 lb turkey breast from frozen in about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. It does take a little longer to cook some things than the book says but does beat not turning the oven on. Food taste great.
524903
Its pretty easy we have done a12 turkey in ours and many Chickens and they come out great
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This is how we use it. We cook at low and switch to warm for overnight. Cooks the chicken just fine and tastes good to us.
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We have rotisseried 4.5# chicken. It did well. It was not stuffed, although an onion was in the large breast cavity and it did very well. :)
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I would kill & pluck it first, lol , yes the temp range is more than adequate to deep fat fry anything from Snickers to hard shell crabs. The cooking basket is plenty deep to cover the cut-up chicken.
569129
The largest thing I have put in it is a 5 or so lb. chicken. It probably could do it although it may look crammed in there at first they alsways do shrink. Also I would cook on med instead of low.
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There is a rack, we have done turkeys and chickens, you could probably do ribs. Let me know how they turn out. Good Luck.
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America's Test Kitchen has a recipe for "roasting" a whole chicken in a crockpot. Still, as NuJoi said, the skin won't be crispy. This unit (the four-quart) will saute, steam, or slow-cook. I'm actually going to cook New York Strip in mine tomorrow. Never done that before, but I'm hoping it will come out as tender as other meats I've cooked in this unit.
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I find this a perfect size for 2-4 people. I've used it mostly for soup. Think you would want something more shallow for frying chicken. I like using plain cast iron for that.
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I add chicken stock. You'll just have to experiment with the proportions. It's good stuff!
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I used 1/5 of a canister for cooking 10 chicken thighs on medium to low heat, boiling 20 oz. water for tea and then boiled another 20 oz of water in the pan for about 5 min. to loosen the stuck on food. So, for our family of 4, I expect to cook 3 - 4 meals per canister.
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you can cook meet but i will not advise to cook a full chicken. Saussage or small part of a chicken is ok. you cannot add butter or oil so it is cook only by steam
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Sorry I haven't tried to cook a large bird just 5lb chickens and chicken thighs in the basket but those have turned out perfect moist and crispy and its so easy to clean every thing comes apart and fits in the dish washer.
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I have made a whole chicken in this Char-Broil Infusion Cooker at 350 degrees for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours, depending on the size of the chicken. When the skin starts to come off the legs it's done. Hope this helps! Also, a bit of red wine and some spice in the bottom of pan works wonders for the taste...
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the maximum time is 2 hours, however, some of the bake settings limit the time further; for instance, Broil allows a maximum of 20 minutes. Still, for the Bake and Warm settings, 2 hours is the max. I love to take 4 big chicken leg quarters, season them and put them in at 275 for 2 hours. they end up juicy, tender, falling off the bone and with crunchy, crispy skin.....
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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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It depends on hot hot you keep the fire and how high above the fire the chicken is but we did a turkey breast about that size and it took 3 hours. I recommend using a thermometer to check the temp every once in a while. It goes slowly at first but then in the end it comes up to temp more quickly.
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I have only used it once to cook chicken, i usually cook fries and calamari, but you can cook about 6 to 8 small pieces of chicken , or 3 to 4 big pieces of chicken . This is a very good frier.