And now for an innovation nobody asked for: chicken cooked in a flower pot. When it comes out of the oven after 2 hours it looks gray and like the saddest thing on earth.
She was so close to inventing a sort of home version of the
tandoor. Had she cooked at about double the temperature and had a clay lid on it, it might actually have been .... well, not completely disgusting. Pre-browning the chicken would also have made it way better.
Come to think of it, I have a lidded German cooking pot called a
Romertopf that's made of terra cotta and does an okay job on chicken, though these days I just
sous vide then pan brown it. Pot roast is great in the
Romertopf but you have to pre-brown the roast.
Am I the only one who thought of Marlon Brando when she "applied" the butter?