four bird roast in slow cooker?

Whiteknight

Just wondering if you could cook a three/four bird roast in a slow cooker?

I've seen one advertised in Aldi and because my cooker temperature is not the most reliable I was hoping to do most of the cooking using my slow cooker.

(I would cook it in the foil tray it comes it covered with tinfoil covering it - Just not sure if this would work)

Any ideas?

FarmersWife_2

Not sure... OH is going to make a 3 bird roast from the farm but I was going to roast it

C x

squeaky

Hmm... an interesting one

While I don't see why not, in principle - I just googled a couple of possible searches and nothing jumped out at me waving "Me. Me, Cook ME "

If you try it I think for the sake of helping it cook right through - if it also has stuffing in I'd take that out and cook it separately.

Stephen_Leak

Whiteknight wrote: »

<snip> my cooker temperature is not the most reliable <snip>

It might be an idea to invest in an oven thermometer, so you can see what control settings equate to actual temperature.

heretolearn_2

I don't see why not. My oven doesn't work either - just the grill bit - so I cook loads of meat joints in the slow cooker. They always cook all the way through ok, so I can't see why this would be any different. It's still just meat, even if it's several bits joined together.

The only thing that might be difficult is preserving the nice 'slices' when you carve it. The joints I do in the slow cooker get falling apart tender, and I can't often carve off a slice, it's more a case of pulling it into lumps! So you might not get the full effect of the bird within bird within bird.

zippychick

heretolearn wrote: »

The only thing that might be difficult is preserving the nice 'slices' when you carve it. The joints I do in the slow cooker get falling apart tender, and I can't often carve off a slice, it's more a case of pulling it into lumps! So you might not get the full effect of the bird within bird within bird.

This. I've never cooked a whole chicken but i've read so many times about them falling apart so you wouldn't really know it was a bird within a bird etc etc

This thread may help - there's lots of discussion on how chickens become so tender and fall apart, and how to make a ummmmmmm , whats' the word, Shelf for lifting the chicken out in one piece?:p

this thread may help - how to cook a three bird roast

Ill merge this later

Zip

Whiteknight

Thanks all,

I've cooked a few chickens in the slow cooker before so have experience of them falling to pieces when removing them.

cooking-mama

Another problem might be the amount of Fluid/juices released,.dunno about the 3 bird roast,but a single chicken can end up swimming in its own juices,you might find the stuffing part of it "floats away"?.