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Simple pleasures for simple minds; Watching chicken spin
Topic Started: Feb 2 2013, 05:42 PM (209 Views)
Horace
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I like to watch my chicken spin while it cooks in my rotisserie. It makes me think about why rotisseries work as well as they do to make delicious tender juicy chicken, compared to (at least my own attempts at) oven roasting.

I used to think it must just be the spinning, which makes the juices tumble over the chicken, self-basting it.

But now I see lots of vertical rotisseries on the market, and if the chicken is spinning on a vertical axis, you wouldn't get much or any additional self-basting compared to a stationary chicken. I doubt the spinning is fast enough for any centrifugal forces to matter one way or another.

Is it the subtle "pulsing" of the temperature each side of the chicken is exposed to, as it gets closer and further from the heating element? I wonder what the temperature gradient is, inside a rotisserie.

I'd like to hook the rotisserie up to a device that rotated it in the opposite direction and at the exact speed the chicken rotates at. Then the chicken would be stationary and the heating element would rotate around it. I wonder if that would produce results as good. :shrug:
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Dude you're over thinking this. Just eat your goddam chicken and enjoy it.
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Horace
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Come to think of it, I could stand the rotisserie on its side to test whether vertical / horizontal alignment matters. I think I'll try that next time. :excited:
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Horace
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Good point. The side orientation thing might not work since the rotisserie relies on gravity to connect the motor with the spit. I could keep it tilted just a little, but that would corrupt the experiment.

Science is hard.
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Of course you realize you'll need to repeat these experiments in the southern hemisphere if you expect them to have universal validity.
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jon-nyc
Feb 2 2013, 06:02 PM
Of course you realize you'll need to repeat these experiments in the southern hemisphere if you expect them to have universal validity.
Good point. And also I'd have to serve it with beans and rice, and I'm not real big on that.
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Well then...
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I see what you guys are saying. If I can put the chicken on a conveyor belt that moves it back and forth over ground it's already covered, under a centrally placed heating element, I can test for whether spinning or temperature pulsation is the important thing in a rotisserie. But I don't think you guys have thought that through. The machine would have to be huge and take up lots of counter space, for the parts of the conveyor belt that were to either side of the heating element.

Please, put a little thought into it before trying to contribute to the experiment. :rolleyes:
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jon-nyc
Feb 2 2013, 05:44 PM
Dude you're over thinking this. Just eat your goddam chicken and enjoy it.
Don't discourage him ... a good XKCD entry might come out of this.
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Think fried chicken..................and sit there and watch the oil bubble.
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Braised is where it's at with chicken.
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Feb 3 2013, 05:59 AM
Braised is where it's at with chicken.
Yeah mic, but what do you watch while Braising? BOOOORING!
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