Oven and Goose are in a Christmas stand off..

[myrtleWilson]

Picked up goose today, just checked to see if goose will fit in oven and it appears not. Have cooked goose before but since then have moved house and have a new oven which apparently is a tad smaller than old one.... Will play around with it on Christmas Day but think iI'll have to take the legs off. Was not expecting to play Madame Butcher this year....

This is when you need teenagers and power tools....

Ours will be propped at a diagonal, all the better for the lovely fat to run off into the tray.

I think DD has some hair straighteners knocking around, maybe I could singe the legs off?!

Oh Alice that may be an idea, how are you propping?

I haven't thought that far ahead, it will have to be propped up on the edge of the tray at least (none big enough) maybe with some foil on the bottom of the oven to catch the fat. Perhaps a loan tin or something artfully arranged?

Loan = loaf

I love goose, hope you get it sorted. My Dad rang my mum last night when he picked up their turkey to say he'd got it and it was 36 pounds. Mum (and Dsis) had been at the and were in a right panic thinking it wouldn't fit in the oven, why had he purchased such a monster? Then he came in with a normal sized turkey that had cost £36

Dad got a ridiculous sized goose last year - we crowned it (removed the legs and put them in a roasting tin on the next shelf down). Weird thing is if you cook it like that the legs need a half hour or so head start or they come out tough as hell.

arg muster I hope ours fits too - what are you all putting with goose?

Am loving the image of panic setting in at chez Muster!

Oh Mum hadn't thought about that, so legs go in before rest of it? Do I adjust cooking time for sans legs bit??

Was doing Nigella Bohemian Goose with sauerkraut and baked apples and it should look like a Disney feast... I suspect it will look like carnage 😤

We used this as a guide for cooking times, worked perfectly
www.raymondblanc.com/recipes/roast-goose/

It'll look fab

This happened to me..our current oven had the controls down the side so it wasn't as wide a the old one...I think I hacked a bit off the legs and shoved it sideways and moved to having a stuffed duck