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Gravity, fire, and patience conspiring to make meat baste itself while you do nothing.
means A device that slowly rotates meat on a horizontal spit over or beside a heat source so it cooks evenly and self-bastes, or a shop or restaurant built around such cooking.
from From French rôtisserie, the place or trade of the rôtisseur — the roaster — built on rôtir, "to roast," which traces back through Old French to a Germanic root (a cousin of the same family that gave English "roast"). The French passed it whole into English, spit, drippings, and all.
- ancient origin
- Cavemen spun meat on sticks over flame eons ago
- french name
- Means to roast, born in medieval France
- costco legend
- Sells 100 million birds yearly at a loss
- self-basting
- Rotation lets juices coat meat with every turn
- clockwork roasts
- Da Vinci sketched a fire-powered automatic spit turner
boston market — chain that popularized rotisserie chicken in the us, founded 1985
rotisserie le bernardin — nyc restaurant famous for rotisserie cooking since the 1970s
nando's — south african chain with 1000+ locations serving peri-peri rotisserie chicken