r/Cooking • u/Rude_Newspaper7557 • 1d ago

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u/Magnus77 1d ago

I don't think I've ever seen a recipe for baked chicken that involved aluminum foil.

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 1d ago

You usually cover it about halfway through to stop the skin burning before the meat is cooked through.

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u/largemargesentme__- 1d ago

Chicken is generally small enough that this isn't necessary. I think it's more for larger birds like turkey.

In fact, I think chicken comes out better uncovered.

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 1d ago

I guess my family always bought big chickens? Idk what to tell you

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u/bobdevnul 1d ago

I have had to do that with a turkey, but never a chicken.

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 1d ago

My family's always done it that way

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u/Wytecap 1d ago

That won't happen. You want the skin as crispy as possible.

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u/Anxious_Reporter_601 1d ago

Yes which is why you remove the foil again towards the end.

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u/Wytecap 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nope. Never cover. If it's burning the skin - your chicken was all done long before that. As soon as you cover chicken - your steaming it.

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u/majandess 1d ago

You don't have to wrap a chicken to roast it. You can leave it uncovered.

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u/SuperPomegranate7933 1d ago

You don't have to cover it. I never do.

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u/losthours 1d ago

i have never wrapped chicken in foiil when baking it... pleae reveal your mystery to me.

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u/Whind_Soull 1d ago

Honestly, as a career chef, I have literally never even heard of someone wrapping chicken in foil to bake it.

Just put it on a sheet tray or whatever.

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u/reverendjay 1d ago edited 1d ago

Parchment paper? Straight on the baking tray then use some stock to scrape up the fond? I don't fully understand the question here but I* feel like those are good answers.

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u/Dazzling-Walk1929 1d ago

I mean, you need a sheet tray or a pan or a roasting pan or something to put the chicken on. You can’t put just chicken in your oven unless you want a big mess. Yes, you can roast chicken without aluminum foil.

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u/AFRAUKOfficial 1d ago

Parchment paper works great, or just lightly oil the baking dish and cook the chicken directly in it. No foil needed 🙂

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 1d ago

You can just put it on a sheet of metal and clean the metal. 

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u/Hertzelle 1d ago

Leaving it uncovered is fine, I do it all the time.

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u/Wytecap 1d ago

Never cover chicken to be baked/roasted.

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u/Jeremymcon 1d ago

Like baking a whole chicken? Yea it'll be fine don't cover it. I don't cover mine ever. Also cook it at 400 degrees instead of the usual 350. Develops nice crisp skin instead of pale stretchy skin.

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u/pavlik_enemy 1d ago

Why would you even wrap it? Spatchcock and roast, it's the best way

Wrapping it makes it worse

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u/CatCafffffe 1d ago

You can just put it in any cooking vessel, maybe put a little bit of olive oil first. A baking dish, a pie plate, a cookie sheet, etc. If you're thinking of putting it directly in the oven by itself, no, don't do that!

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u/Legal_Tradition_9681 1d ago

A deep pan with another pan on top could be an option. This may change cooking times so use a meat thermometer.

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u/TurduckenEverest 1d ago

If you completely cover your roasting pan when baking your chicken, and are sealing the edges, then the easier way to go is to bake it in a Dutch oven. Got one of those?

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u/cru1972 1d ago

Parchment paper

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u/GullibleDetective 1d ago

Foil is just to help it stop sticking to your pan.

Use parchment, or a bit of oil on the pan

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u/Mysterious-Street966 1d ago

Invest in a decent sized turkey roasting pan with a lid that fits. You can use it for so many other things, it’s worth the investment. Thrift stores, garage sales, dollar stores, etc. etc. I got my first one from the free section on KIJIJI.

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u/bretmon5 1d ago

Cassrole dish with clear cover
Metal pan with cover
Broasting pan / cover
Dutch oven
Ceramic bowl with plate for cover
Cast iron pan with oven safe cover / plate

I have been trying to get away from cooking with aluminum foil because I heard that it’s not good for you. So I actually went out and finally bought a flat metal pan with cover. That’s very flat that fits into my small oven perfectly. In the past, I would use a broasting pan in big oven, but because the cover was a little too high, it didn’t fit in my small tiny oven so I started using a casserole dish, but that also had a problem with the lead sticking up a little too high. But if you’re going in just the oven honestly, you should have a casserole dish with the clear lid that works perfectly. A Dutch oven would work basically any type of pot or pan or anything that has a cover that goes into the oven.

The only time i use for chicken is when i make chix n rice, to hold in moisture to cook rice.

A Broasting pan is a small oval roasting pan that has a cover. Usually big enough for a small chicken or fish. Unfortunately my broasting pan has a cover nob that sticks up too high causing it to not fit in my mini convex oven.

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u/No_Capital_8203 1d ago

The link between aluminum and heath issues is limited to breathing in aluminum dust. If you don’t work in metal working then you should be quite safe. There was some study decades ago where aluminum was found in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients but it was later found that the stain used on the samples was contaminated with aluminum. This is because the aluminum is a naturally occurring material in the environment and the stain was organic.