>Default User wrote:
>
>>Frogleg wrote:
>>
>>> Braising (cooking previously browned meat in a covered container with
>>> a small amount of liquid) and roasting (exposing meat to dry oven
>>> heat) are rather different processes. The puzzle is why this is a
>>> *new* problem for you. Water baths are used for oven-cooked dishes
>>> like custards to both even out the heat and expose the pan to
>>> temperatures lower than 212F.
>>
>>
>>Reread the original message:
>>
>>"A friend thinks it's because I use a bit of water at the bottom of the
>>roasting pan. But the meat is always on a rack inside the pan so
>>doesn't sit in the water."
>>
>>
>>No braising at all.

Need to know more about this new oven. I roast all sorts of meats on a rack in
a pan with a bit of water (just enough so the very bottom of the rack doesn't
get all fercockted with fond - I hate scrubbing wire racks - but most of the
water evaporates leaving a nice base for gravy), been roasting with water in
the pan nigh on fifty years and never had the problem you describe. Did you
check that all the packing material has been removed from your new oven, is the
vent clear... is the oven's bottom panel properly aligned, is the oven's
thermostat sensor bulb properly placed? If there's blockage or a part
misaligned your oven may not be capable of proper convection, whereas there may
be hot spots, cold spots, and sections where the temperature will actually
correspond to the thermostat setting. You're not so ignorant as to have a
friggin' (totally useless piece of dreck) pizza stone plopped into your nice
new oven... that will definitely screw up its ability to roast properly, and
WILL permanently **** up the oven's physical integrity... anyone with half a
brain should notice that oven racks are made of wire, designed for maximum air
circulation, duh, blocking those openings with a friggin' slab of stone is just
plain DUH! And laying that stone on the oven's steel floor is just too ****ing
moronic for woids.


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