Simple Roast Chicken

Francois de Melogue
5 min readOct 4, 2019

Perfecting the Balance of Crispy Skin and Moist Meat

The Quest: A Simple, Perfectly Roasted Chicken. A humble, seemingly easy dish that unfortunately is as elusive as a unicorn or a five-leaf clover. I mean, how hard should it be to roast the perfect chicken? Let’s analyze what makes it perfect and figure out how to easily do it every single time.

A simple roast chicken.

Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple

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Francois de Melogue

My earliest attempt at cookery began with the filleting of my sister's goldfish at age 2 and cooking my pet rabbits by age 7. Life has been downhill ever since.