Sheryl Rosen > said:

>Putting a **whole** 4lb or larger chicken in a crockpot is a one way ticket
>to Salmonella City....on a high-speed express train!
>
>Cut up chicken, sure, no problem. But a chicken that large...at the low
>temps of a crock pot...would cause the parts of that chicken towards the
>center of the pot to be at unsafe temps for far too long. There's too much
>mass for the heat to penetrate.
>
>All the crock pot cookbooks I've seen advise against cooking a whole chicken
>in them. They use chicken parts, but never a whole chicken. Small cornish
>hens is another story--their mass is not as great.

Thanks for the info, Sheryl. Tonight's chicken salad sandwiches were so
good, I was contemplating getting two or three chickens to crockpot (Crash
does everything in a big way, especially gifts - my crockpot would easily
hold two whole chickens, possibly three). That would work better for us in
the summer. Darned gas oven heats up the entire house.

I've got a jar of mole sauce/paste/whatever that's just begging to coat
some shredded chicken!

Carol

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