 Thanksgiving Roast
JJ,
I think you've got time to be ready for Thanksgiving!
If you fully cure your oven, my guess is that your heat retention will be fine; your oven mass should absorb and hold enough heat. A couple of things to think about:
1. You should build on a door. That will matter for the time it takes to roast a turkey.
2. When it comes time to do the roast, let the coals burn to a low flame, and don't shovel them out. That will keep a heat source in your oven (for security) and if worst comes, you can more easily do a re-fire at the 3/4 point. It's a safety valve.
3. A couple of days before Thanksgiving, roast a large chicken for dinner. It's a dry-run, and see how it goes.
This is from someone with a wife who is nervous about poultry -- so I have had to work on all the contingencies.
James |