#57: The Lazy Genius Guide to Roasting Stuff
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Roasting is one of the best skills to have in your cooking arsenal, and there's virtually no actual skill required. You just need a three basic rules and the cheatsheet below. Listen to an episode that is guaranteed to change the ease with which you get dinner on the table.
Stuff Mentioned In This Episode:
- How To Know If a Recipe Is Any Good
- Change Your Life Chicken
- basic sheet pans for roasting (don't forget to check your local restaurant supply store, and also measure the widest pan that will fit in your oven and go with that... more space = more flavor)
- download the transcript for this episode
Don't forget to grab your free roasting cheatsheet!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, you're listening to the lazy genius podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Kendra and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we're wrapping up our series on food basics and talking about roasting. |
| 0:16.0 | The other episodes in the series, chicken, soup, bread and salad were about the actual food. |
| 0:22.0 | And this one obviously isn't. It's episode 57, the lazy genius guide to roasting stuff. |
| 0:28.0 | And while it's not an actual dish, it's a skill that will elevate so many dishes you do make. |
| 0:34.0 | Roasting is magic and will seriously change your life. |
| 0:38.0 | So in the playbook today, we're going to go through the why, the when and the how of roasting, including the three main components that you need. |
| 0:46.0 | We're not going to go into too much detail about what you can roast because I have a freebie for you for that. |
| 0:52.0 | If you go to the lazy genius collective.com slash lazy slash roasting, you'll see a box where you can pop in your email and get a roasting cheat sheet delivered to your inbox. |
| 1:05.0 | It has a list of ingredients to roast in the best time and temperature to do it. |
| 1:10.0 | Pop that puppy on your fridge and you are all set. So let's get started. |
| 1:14.0 | First step, what is roasting? Roasting is cooking food in high indirect heat like your oven. |
| 1:22.0 | And often in one single layer, it gets brown and often like really crunchy on the outside and soft and awesome on the inside. |
| 1:30.0 | It's pretty simple. |
| 1:32.0 | Next step, why do you do it? Why roast? Because it's stupid easy y'all. Like, oh my goodness, you literally put food on a giant cookie sheet, pop it in a hot oven and it cooks. |
| 1:43.0 | If you handle your pan, the lazy genius way, by lining it in foil and parchment paper, which we'll get to, you'll also have zero cleanup and flavor you get from roasting. |
| 1:54.0 | It's off the charts. It's so good. You can also roast different ingredients at the same time, including meat. |
| 2:01.0 | Your entire dinner can be roasted on one pan and it tastes and looks amazing. |
| 2:07.0 | If you are not roasting your food, you are totally missing out. So we're going to fix that today. This is going to be a short episode. I say that. We'll see because there are really just three main components of how to roast the right way. |
| 2:19.0 | First one, fat and salt. |
| 2:21.0 | Second, foil and parchment. |
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