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Quick help with roast chicken please!

Fruball
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I bought a YS counter fresh free range organic chicken from MrT today and have just put it in the oven but I forgot to weigh it and have no idea how long it will take!

It isn't very big - label, if it had one, would probably say serves 3 people (altho us OS'ers could easily make it feed 8!)

Obviously I know to check the juices run clear and I do have a digital meat thermometer but not sure what temp it should be anyway :rotfl:

It's so long since I cooked a whole chicken! Last winter probably. Any ideas please?

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  • fairtrade
    fairtrade Posts: 476 Forumite
    An 'average' chicken would be 1.5kg, you would want 190c/Gas 5 for around 80 minutes.
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  • pigpen
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    I'd check it after an hour if it is a chick and decide then if it needed longer... I put the extra large ones in for 1.5 hours.. Mine is a fan oven and only seems to have the 'hot' temperature when I use it but OH claims it has different ones :p
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  • Fruball
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    I am so glad I posted here as I had forgotten when I put it in too!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Thanks for the advice :A
  • -taff
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    Chickens usually get an hour and a half and then some time sitting down minding their own business...
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  • kittycat204
    kittycat204 Posts: 1,824 Forumite
    It should be 165 degree F inside according to the government.
    http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/mintemp.html
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  • fairtrade
    fairtrade Posts: 476 Forumite
    edited 5 September 2013 at 5:47PM
    kittycat204 wrote: »
    It should be 165 degree F inside according to the government.

    I think the government need to take a look at their website as 165F is only 74C - not hot enough to boil water.

    Looking at the table again it is internal temperatures of the chicken and not cooking temps.
    For myself I am an optimist - there does not seem to be much use being anything else.
    Sir Winston Churchill
  • kittycat204
    kittycat204 Posts: 1,824 Forumite
    fairtrade wrote: »
    I think the government need to take a look at their website as 165F is only 74C - not hot enough to boil water.

    Looking at the table again it is internal temperatures of the chicken and not cooking temps.

    I said 165 inside, not cooking temp
    Opinion on everything, knowledge of nothing.
  • fairtrade
    fairtrade Posts: 476 Forumite
    kittycat204 wrote: »
    I said 165 inside, not cooking temp

    I realised that after I had posted, which is why I edited the post.
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  • Fruball
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    Fairtrade was spot on - it was done in 80 minutes :)

    Many thanks everyone xx
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