It's a WATER pan fool!

Feeney are you really cooking roast potatoes on the excel?

Um....

Water-Pan ?


Oooops....




DM

That wasn't Ian showing his love of weber brand by any chance was it?

you fried those taters in chicken grease?

Would that be potato confit?

That looks so good I wanna slap my momma!

To be honest it was a trial to see how it would work and what other ways we could use the pan, Ian was very concerned about the risk of such high fat in a confined space with nowhere for any expanding air to get out.

John Feeney our resident Pro Chef, took the lead and recovered some of the liquor from the pan for a gravy, then clean out the pan and tossed in a block of Lard (Pig Fat). When this was at temperature we put in the potatoes and cooked them.

The end result was fantastic, we chewed over the idea of cooking Goose and using the goose fat in the same way. We also looked at using the water pan to steam Christmas puddings and generally take advantage of its size for other tasks during a cook.

Over this weekend we have done a traditional Christmas / Thanks Giving Christmas Fayre on the Excel in addition to a whole host of other meats and recipes that at the minute aren't so traditional but give it time.

I envisage in another 100 years old Bob Cratchets wife will be slaving over the ProQ for Tiny Tim.

Guys,

The food, everything looked wonderful. How about a few recipes will ya?

Watch this space there is likely to be some video.

Most Creative Use of a Waterpan Award!