I usually do my Christmas roast on the ole rotisserie ...... I have a Hasty-Bake Gourmet with a rotisserie .... technically, you could actually run two rotisseries in the Gourmet, but considering I can get 3 chickens on my single rotisserie, I don't see where two would be helpful.
This year's roast was 10 lbs with bones. After removing the bones and trimming and tying, I had a 7 lb roast. The fire set up is pretty straightforward. I light one full chimney of charcoal. I stick a chunk of wood on each side of my firebox, then a waterpan in the middle of the firebox. I build the charcoal in a ring around the waterpan. The pan could be my gravy pan if I cook the gravy in the Hasty-Bake, which I actually did not do this year.
With the firebox set up like that, and then raised up to the bottom most position, I get 250-275 at the bottom of the rotisserie. For chicken, I bring the fire up higher, so I can get more like 350-375, but for prime rib I like to cook in that low and slow range.
It took just over 2 1/2 hours to get to 125F in the center of the roast. With carryover, I was at 133 .... ends were medium plus, the center was high end of medium-rare. Everybody was pretty happy with that outcome.
This year's roast was 10 lbs with bones. After removing the bones and trimming and tying, I had a 7 lb roast. The fire set up is pretty straightforward. I light one full chimney of charcoal. I stick a chunk of wood on each side of my firebox, then a waterpan in the middle of the firebox. I build the charcoal in a ring around the waterpan. The pan could be my gravy pan if I cook the gravy in the Hasty-Bake, which I actually did not do this year.
With the firebox set up like that, and then raised up to the bottom most position, I get 250-275 at the bottom of the rotisserie. For chicken, I bring the fire up higher, so I can get more like 350-375, but for prime rib I like to cook in that low and slow range.
It took just over 2 1/2 hours to get to 125F in the center of the roast. With carryover, I was at 133 .... ends were medium plus, the center was high end of medium-rare. Everybody was pretty happy with that outcome.
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