Rotisserie, also known as spit-roasting, is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit – a long, solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a fireplace or over a cam
Rotisserie chicken cooking on a horizontal rotisserie
Spitted fowl are rotated by a hand crank and basted with a long-handled spoon in this illustration from the Romance of Alexander, Bruges, 1338–1344 (Bodleian Library).
A vertical rotisserie cooking Döner kebab
Rotisserie chicken is a chicken dish that is cooked on a rotisserie by using direct heat in which the chicken is placed next to the heat source.
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…convection heating. Later on, the roast is brought closer, thus combining intense convection and radiation heating. Supermarkets commonly mass-produce rotisserie chickens using a horizontal rotisserie that has metal bars to hold the chicken in place through the weakest part of the breast (also which hardly affects the…
A Rotisserie Chicken on sale in Canada
Homemade rotisserie chicken from a propane grill in the United States