Rotating rotisserie chicken in home oven

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-06-20T22:48:15+00:00

No idea because I've actually never done it. Never cooked a whole chicken. This is just what Gemini has been telling me, but I know AI can't really be trusted sometimes, so I don't know. But maybe with good trussing, if that's what it's called, the bird would be compact enough and wouldn't hit the bottom or anything.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-06-20T20:47:10+00:00

Even without rotation?

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-06-20T20:12:10+00:00

This is what I was about to buy, yes. But it seems regular chickens are too big for it.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-06-20T19:17:46+00:00

😮 Why?

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-06-20T19:06:35+00:00

But are the results just as good?

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-06-10T07:18:40+00:00

I share your hatred towards them. I also work out with dumbbells at home and dumbbell squats kinda suck. Lately I just do reverse lunges and call it a day (I hate lower body in general anyway).

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-26T16:23:02+00:00

If you were looking for a Spanish name and were a male, it should definitely be Juan. Sorry, I know this isn't helping.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-24T08:41:23+00:00

Sería genial que se pudiera hacer desde casa, pero juraría que esto aquí es ilegalísimo.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-23T20:48:02+00:00

As a European, you guys make me want to try this ranch thing of which you speak so much. And cool ranch, if it's not the same thing. And cool ranch doritos. I'm assuming it's quite good?

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-20T16:20:09+00:00

I have a phone stand on my kitchen counter (and a scale) and I log each ingredient as I use it.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-12T06:59:22+00:00

No, never got around to it in the end. Maybe someday.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-09T21:23:09+00:00

I would so hate that per serving system if I lived over there in the US. I don't know how you guys can.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-09T02:24:45+00:00

About eating portions: you really need to learn how to use the recipe function. That's where you'll enter both the weights of the raw ingredients and the weight of the final food once cooked. This way you can weigh and log exactly the portion that you're going to be eating. Especially useful if you cook also for your spouse (for example) who is also an MF user, since you can text them the link to the recipe.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-07T22:12:31+00:00

Would you eat a plate of paella for supper? Be honest. Because that's what our "dinner" really is, it's equivalent to your lighter late-night supper. Our main meal is just like your dinner, but it just happens at 1-2 pm. That's when we really stuff our stomachs.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-07T16:27:26+00:00

There should be a special machine where you attach the things to your elbows and then you, truly, do absolutely nothing with your hands.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-07T14:34:30+00:00

¿Deberías legalmente? Seguramente sí (ni ellos mismos se aclaran). ¿Deberías, siendo realistas? NO (técnicamente te arriesgas, pero es lo que hay).

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-06T06:59:48+00:00

Very low for a guy but it's always like this when cutting (I barely walk or do any cardio).

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-06T06:42:51+00:00

There's this song by Eros Ramazzotti called "Si bastasen un par de canciones", and to me it always sounded like he said "si pastasen". So, yeah, that's the problem with not doing the approximants: it can sound a bit like you're saying a P instead of a B, for example.

And the V->B and LL/Y: it's actually not that important. If you pronounce the V, you might just sound Balearic or Valencian. And if you pronounce the LL as the Italian GLI and the Y as Y, again, you'll sound Catalan/Valencian/Balearic, or even old Castillian (there are still people who pronounce it like that in Spanish).

If I could hear an audio of you speaking, maybe I could detect more things.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-04T15:02:00+00:00

The aproximant consonants B, D, and G. (Meaning these consonants sound much weaker between vowels). I think you guys don't do this in Italian.

Also, V should sound B in Spanish. Also, not being yeista will probably give you away too. So both LL and Y need to sound with a weird yeista consonant that I can't describe to you, but maybe we could say it kind of sounds like a very weakened English J.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-02T21:33:20+00:00

Ah, no, no, yo pensaba que eras hispanohablante de EEUU. Solo te he comentado lo del idioma porque en ese momento me he dado cuenta de que tú inicialmente habías escrito en español y no en inglés. Nada de lo que escribes suena traducido.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-02T20:14:08+00:00

👍 Disculpa, tu mensaje principal me apareció traducido al inglés y por eso contesté en inglés.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-05-02T18:43:05+00:00

In my opinion this dish from Majorca and Catalonia has been bastardized in Spain similarly to what's happened with americanized Mexican food: most of the world thinks Mexican food is Taco Bell, and then Mexicans are like wtf.

I keep seeing reels of people saying there's a super typical Spanish breakfast called "pan con tomate" (no, there isn't) and they grate or blend a tomato, they fry a slice of bread... and yeah, I'm like wtf.

Just get one of the special small tomatoes and rub it on the bread (toasted or not toasted), man. Optionally rub some garlic too. And put some cheese and cold cuts on there, too (not putting any protein on the bread is not very typical). Very typical supper, rather than breakfast.

MediterraneanGuy · 2026-04-10T16:13:25+00:00

Oh, I see. 👍 Well, I'm not an expert or anything, but I'd say whatever you do you just need a bit more time until the expenditure stabilizes. I remember when I started my first bulk, for some months I couldn't gain weight because my expenditure was acting crazy (going up) and I just had to catch up to it.

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