Baking a Chicken

[cimorene]

the recipe says to cook the chicken--or the breast part of it--for seven to nine hours in a "low" oven.  what does low mean?  googling tells me that the gas setting term is "very slow" for 250 F or 120 C. 

but all the recipes i can find are cooking chickens at around that 250 F-110 C range for one and a half, not eight and a half, hours.  so what is "low", and why does a google on it produce nothing?  is the recipe mis-typed? 

why is my parents' phone busy?

Comments

[mirabella]

Dude, that has to be a typo. Even on low heat you're going to wind up with a chicken breast like shoe leather if you leave it in that long.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

trivia: ana says (below) that her father slow-roasts lamb for 7 hours at 55 degrees C, which according to legend, makes it so tender it can be eaten with a spoon. :shrug: i guess tomorrow i'll be able to tell you...