Measure the oven FIRST
I was much to smart for my own good and didn't measure as my oven has always held whatever I put in it including HUGE cookie pans. Today I bought a luscious new turkey pan and put the turkey in it and stuck it in the fridge to thaw and then thought to see if it fits. It doesn't! I learned my lessen to not assume I know what my oven holds. Do you guys have a turkey pan that fits? :) Are you ready for the eating day of champions?
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8 Comments:
In times old we had a standard/regular sized oven. I would use the old aluminum foil pan. Why? Because you can bend and shape it a bit.
I am a firm believer in big ovens. (I have a 36" wolf) I believe that old style ovens are bigger. Somewhere around the 80's someone decided to make them smaller. We must find this person and smack them.
I got some nice calphalon roasters from a friend who got 2 small wall ovens and now cannot fit much in them.
My grandmother had Kenmore she had huge turkeys and never had a problem with space. My best guess is sometime in the 80's around the harvest wheat period the ovens got smaller. Was after avacado.
Take some celery ribs and use them as a tight fit roast rack. Adds flavor to the gravy.
JerzeeTomato at 10:00AM on 11/25/08
I found out the same thing the hard way when I bought two really nice jellyroll pans at Ross for super cheap. 17" pans fit in my oven, but not when they have apparently gigantic handles on the sides. Did you keep the receipt? You might be able to get your money back. I didn't with mine, so I resold them at work.
joyyy at 10:03AM on 11/25/08
When I lived in Boston a couple of years ago we made a Thanksgiving dinner in our apartment. We brined a 14-lb turkey and then proceeded to attempt to fit it in our half-size apartment oven. It fit... sort of... not really. The door wouldn't completed shut. So we leaned a flame-retardant chair up against the door and proped the windows in the apartment open. It took a little longer to cook, that's for sure!
Laurel E at 12:22PM on 11/25/08
that's funny, this same thing happened to me last night. Luckily, I was only roasting pumpkins so I could just put them on greased aluminum foil.
wickedlady at 3:06PM on 11/25/08
I have a really small apartment oven, and if i put a nice big lucious turkey in there, nothing else will fit. so this year it's a turkey breast and a bunch of other stuff, and some stuff on the stove. it sucks that i can only fit one cookie sheet on each oven rack. . . .
redhead at 9:40PM on 11/26/08
@Jerzee, BRAGGER! jk, I'm jealous.
One christmas long ago, I asked for a Calphalon roaster and when turkey-time came, the pan didn't fit in the oven. Enter grocery store foil pan. Now, my best friend for T-giving. Which my father rolls his eyes at because I have wonderful roasting pans. Calphalon, All-Clad and another All-Clad.
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 10:42PM on 11/26/08
Carol this past summer Williams Sonoma had Mauviel roasters on sale.
They are so pretty that I cannot bear to use them yet. Today's bird will go in the calphalon.
JerzeeTomato at 7:30AM on 11/27/08
That happened to us last Thanksgiving at my sister's. She moved into a new house with 2 dinky little wall ovens. She now does the turkey in a roaster, the rolls in a toaster oven and leaves the ovens clear for other dishes that need them. We did find that her jelly roll pan can be slid in just like a rack when needed - it fits perfectly on the side rails.
CooksForOne at 10:44PM on 11/27/08