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A roast chicken dinner spread on a warm wooden table
Slow-Roast Chicken with Herb Jus 1 hr 30 min · Serves 4 · Easy

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Cooked twice, minimum

Nothing reaches this site having been made once. Every recipe is cooked through, start to finish, at least two more times after the developer test.

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Ordinary equipment

One domestic oven, a set of supermarket pans and no sous-vide circulator. If a recipe needs a piece of kit to work, we say so up front.

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Failures included

The testing notes are the point. They tell you what we got wrong, what we changed, and where the recipe will still work if you improvise.

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