Timeline for How can I estimate the cooking time of a roast?
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| Feb 14, 2015 at 19:36 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | Would Seasoned Advice be a better home for this question? | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 16:57 | answer | added | user68820 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 14:25 | comment | added | David Hammen | There is an inevitable amount of "aimlessness" when you are cooking a slow roast. There are just too many variables: the calibration of your oven; the distribution of fat, bones, and meat within the roast; and surface area versus mass. Add even more uncertainty if you cook outside with a slow smoker (the best, yum!). Recipes will give you a base value for how long you need to cook, but a thermometer is the only thing that will tell you when the meat is done and time is up. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 9:32 | comment | added | JDługosz | So, the real appeal of hotdogs is revealed: homogeneous emulsified material of uniform dimension can always be cooked to perfection and with exact timing. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 9:22 | comment | added | anna v | I found some papers where they model cylinders, but explicitly exclude "lumpy" ones as a roast. The conductivity of "lumpy" must be the what makes for large time variations, different for different lambs. | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 7:55 | comment | added | JDługosz | ΔT is large? No kidding. Thanks for the link, @annav | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 7:48 | comment | added | anna v | here is a recipe similar to your . timing is 4 to 6 hours, the delta(t) is large . chow.com/recipes/30234-slow-roasted-prime-rib-au-jus?page=all | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 5:41 | comment | added | JDługosz | Yes, the thermometer will tell me when it's reached the temperature. I use two. I know what temperature I'm aiming for, as noted in the question. I just don't want to be aimless as knowing when it will be dinner time (as explained in the post). | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 5:29 | comment | added | anna v | Using a meat thermometer is much simpler than estimating shapes, and using formulas. whatscookingamerica.net/Information/MeatTemperatureChart.htm | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 4:56 | history | asked | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |