On 4/2/2016 12:28 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:29:31 -0600, onglet > wrote:
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>> On 4/2/2016 7:14 AM, Amanda Ripanykhazova wrote:
>>>> The other option is a rotisserie on a gas grill - works nicely.
>>>
>>> That would be amazing if anyone actually made a rotisserie which goes inside my oven and turned the meat directly under the flame!! Lots of the higher end manufacturers seem to incorporate this into the cooker AT DESIGN STAGE, which doesn't seem all that difficult or new (we actually had one in a Moffat Con-Rad which we bought in 1959!!!) but no one seems to make one now. Yes, I have been avidly watching Shark Tank for signs of this.
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>>> MEANWHILE I am back to Square one. I have a Ronco 5000 series which cant o larger roasts because the metal in the side on which the spit sits is so soft that it wears out and when you call Ronco to ask about this, they know so much about this problem that they tell their call centre staff to act dumb when anyone reports it.
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>>> Does anyone have any experience with what model to move on to now? Footprint no larger than the Ronco, CAN handle 9lb chickens?
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>>> And yes, I do still know that I can do a search and find out who has paid google recently to sell their rotisseries. But it seems to be telling me that the better companies AREN'T paying google this week or at all. On my Mac, the WP units never seem to come up and no reviews of things like the model 26L (with dimensions) ever seem to come up in google.
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>> My suggestion was a rotisserie unit for a typical gas BBQ grill, not
>> your home oven.
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>> They cost about $50 at Lowes or Home Depot.
>
> I have a rotisserie for my Weber, it works fine, but I'll caution
> everyone anytime you're using a rotisserie never walk away from it
> while it's cooking... as a piece of meat is cooking it can go out of
> ballance, stop rotating and go up in flames, I learned the hard way.

I have had the same unfortunate experience.

One must be meticulous in attaching the set screws and making sure thy
do not bind on the lid of the grill.

> Many gas grill rotisseries use a battery driven motor, those have very
> little power.

I have never seen a battery driven one, nor would I use it.

> The Weber rotisserie motor plugs in to AC but still
> hasn't much power and it also has a slip clutch to protect the motor
> so if it goes out of balance the meat stops rotating and begins to
> burn ... I walked away to talk to someone and lost a bone-in loin of
> pork, I was away for about 15 minutes and it incinerated... that was
> some ten years ago, I haven't used the rotisserie since.

Wow, you give up easily.

> Also be sure
> your grill is not on a wooden deck or within 15' of any combustible
> material. A fellow I worked with lived in a high ranch and had his
> grill on a second story deck... he went across the street to check out
> a neighbor's new car. All of a sudden the fire engines came
> screaming, his house was totally engulfed, his two small children who
> were in an upstairs bedroom were burned to a crisp.

That is tragic.

This is why most condo and apartment buildings limit grills on decks to
electric only.

> My Weber is on
> the ground about 20' from my house and I never leave it unattended...
> in fact I rarely use it anymore, I only light it when I have company
> and that's not often anymore either.

You're missing out then, big time.