When Do You Cook A Roast?

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I’m on a ( strangely addictive) Facebook page called “ Rate My Roast” & lots of people have roasts in the week as well as Sundays. I quite like a mini midweek roast. For some reason have never done one on a Saturday. How about you guys?

Christmas, and occasionally Easter. Sometimes I’ll roast a chicken to have with dill potato salad, green salad, aioli, etc, but I don’t count that as a roast dinner, more a picnic. There are just so many other delicious things I’d rather be eating and clearing up than “multiple different items all roasted to make them identical then covered in gravy to ensure said identicalness”.

Never 😬(OK, maybe once or twice a year??). Are you putting it on too hot??

Most Sundays and when my kids were little and fussy I'd do a mini roast on a Wednesday ( pork chops or a chicken) to get some veg down them

Full roadt at weekends. Will do a slow cooker roast chicken in the week but thats not the same.

Most Sundays in winter, occasionally a midweek one if I'm not working. Never in summer

Some Sundays in Winter but now just DH and I not every week.

Never on a Saturday because I think I'll save it and done it tomorrow but typically any day.

Usually on a Friday but it’s literally the easiest thing in the world to make so often bung a chicken and a bag of new potatoes in the oven with lemon tarragon, olive oil and leave it there for 2 hours. Then roast some veg in another disposable tray and and one other veg and all there is to wash up is one pan.

I work Monday - Friday and wouldn't have time to cook a roast when I get home at 7 p.m. I usually have something quick like pasta or a stir fry or leftovers from the weekend (on a Monday). I've more time for cooking at the weekend.

Whenever we fancy one, mid week or weekend. As long as you have the contents in, roasts are a really easy meal to make, the timing everything to be ready at the same time is the hardest bit.

Me and DH both think gravy is vile. Don't see the point of it. We want our food to taste of the food itself and not gravy and things that should be crisp, like roast potatoes and yorkshire pudding, to stay crisp not go soggy.

I have never found cooking a roast a faff. Even when I worked full time I would quite often cook a roast when I got home from work at 7.30pm

I could never cook one during the week. Don't know why, but it just seems wrong to me to have a roast on a weekday.

Always cook a roast on a Sunday and we have one most Sundays. Love them.

Every Sunday without fail. roast chicken today.

We had roast beef last Sunday.

Sunday without a roast ? Unthinkable.

Whenever I have enough people in my home that fancy one because I mostly live alone but I would never ever cook one in this heat! No matter who wanted it even Idris Elba there are carveries for people like that the absolute weirdos!

It says it's 40° in my garden right now and yes I am in England 😂

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Just as a by the way, can you make gravy ?

Roast Chicken gravy tastes like chicken.

Roast beef gravy tastes like beef.

Roast lamb gravy tastes like lamb.

Roast pork gravy tastes like pork.

For the avoidance of doubt, no we don't have all the above roast meats in one go.

I love gravy. Yes I make my own just like my Mum and Nanna used to. For some people their Dad's or Mum's or Gran's or Aunt's etc gravy is/was the best in the world.

Having said that I now am a weirdo as descriptions of crispy roast potatoes and stuffing etc have left me feeling last night's lasagne ain't gonna cut it!

@Nugg

there are carveries for people like that the absolute weirdos!

Yum yum !

I found my tribe. I hate gravy too. Like a roast though.

I don't make gravy because I hate it. I haven't eaten it since I was about 12.

I have been vegetarian for over 30 years now so certainly would not be using meat tasting gravy if I did like gravy.

As I said, we like our food crisp not soggy and tasting of the food. We both hate wet sloppy food

I am cooking one today as I don't think it is that hot.

Hate carveries as their potatoes and yorkshires are not nice at all

We're having a lazy one today - roast potatoes, veggie sausages, stuffing, yorkies (frozen ones) and some vege. Gravy too because I like meaty tasting gravy with my veggies. I think a roast would be horribly dry without gravy - unless there's cauliflower cheese or creamed leeks instead, maybe.

And now I want creamed leeks.

Christmas and even that is 1 too many

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