Ronco Showtime Rotisserie Product Review and Giveaway!
Ronco is a name known throughout households for their great kitchen products including their home dehydrating systems and their rotisseries. Products that make doing the tasks around the kitchen seamless while you continue to live your life. Ronco sent me their Showtime 5500 Stainless Rotisserie to test and review.
In the past, when we wanted rotisserie chicken we’d have to buy it from the store or the local market. I have made turkeys for the holidays but have never roasted a chicken at home. We usually eat chicken, but just boneless skinless chicken breasts.
The thought of using the rotisserie was a bit intimidating, I knew how to prep the chicken but all the separate parts seemed a bit much. It was a nice surprise to see how easy it was put together once all the pieces were washed. One part still intimidated me – the rotisserie spit. How do you get the meat on it? I had never trussed a chicken before. I was happy that on my first attempt the chicken slid right onto the spit, I placed the other end on and put it right into the rotisserie.
The Showtime 5500 comes with a lot of different parts, so you can make more than just chicken or turkey – the possibilities are almost endless. Besides the rotisserie spit which is great for chicken, turkey and large roasts, the Showtime 5500 comes with a multipurpose basket. In the basket you can make vegetables, burgers, steaks, fish and chicken fillets. You just adjust the time for what you are making and walk away.
One of my favorite features of the Showtime 5500 is that you don’t have to set the temperature. The Showtime 5500 has “perfect preset temperature”, you just set the time according to what you’re making and it comes out perfectly.
The first thing I made in the Showtime 5500 was a 4 1/2 pound chicken. Once I put it in the rotisserie, set the time for an hour and 15 minutes (15 minutes for each pound) and let it cook. It wasn’t very long at all before the whole house smelled of roasting chicken and all of our stomachs were growling. The chicken came out perfectly and we had a fantastic lunch that day.
We wanted to see what else I could make in the rotisserie – it did come with the multipurpose basket. I tossed some potate wedges with some oil and onion soup mix and let them cook for about a half hour. They were a great side dish with lunch the next day. The multipurpose basket is extremely easy to use – just fill it up and fit the lid on over the food. On each side there are two loops that you feed the spit on so it fits easily in the rotisserie.
I love the options that the Showtime 5500 Rotisserie comes with, and the flexibility of dinner options I can set up and walk away. Everything has come out tasting fantastic and has had minimal effort in making it. The only thing that I think could be improved would be the oven gloves that came with the unit – they didn’t seem to hold up to the heat of the chicken coming out of the rotisserie.
The Showtime 5500 isn’t an appliance you use once in a while and put away, or will gather dust. Instead ours is getting used several times a week. I’m already looking into getting the kabob rod set and steamer tray to expand our dinner options. The biggest problem we’ve had since the rotisserie is our cats now associate it with left over chicken and they will sit and watch the food cook.
Ronco would like to make the holiday cooking easier on one of my readers – someone will win a Ronco Showtime 5500 Stainless Rotisserie! Make sure you read how to enter below.
Enter to win with the form below. The mandatory entry is leaving a comment on this blog post telling me what the first thing you’d make in your rotisserie would be!! If you do not do this entry – you will not win! So make sure you leave a comment and then enter using the form linked below!Find Ronco Online:
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i would make a stuffed chicken
The first thing I would make is a chicken..
I would definitely make chicken first, it’s my family’s favorite!
I’d make a roasted chicken!
Chicken would be the first thing I would cook.
I would like to try the burgers.
I would make lemon pepper chicken in it first 🙂
Thanks for the chance to win!
I would cook a chicken because we love rotisserie chicken.
It would make a nice Christmas gift.
oh i cant wait i would make a chicken!!
i would use this all the time
roasted rosemary and garlic chicken
We would love to be able to roast our one chicken.
My husband would love making prime rib on this
I would make a garlic chicken!
This is NICE and would be a blessing to win for me and my husband 🙂
This would be great to make a tender whole chicken for my chicken noodle soup,chicken tetrizini,and chicken and dumplings.
i definitely would roast a chicken
chickens..I love chicken and this would be sooo yummy
tysvm
I would like to make a beef roast.
The first thing I would make would be BBQ Ribs
I would probably either make roasted chicken or turkey
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Thanks for the chance
Chicken is my favorite so it would be BBQ chicken
I’d make a roasted chicken!
I would make a chicken.
A marinated tri-tip for sure
I would make Rotisserie Turkey! I have some yummy recipes!
chicken stuffed with giblets
I’d make a pork loin!
Definitely rotisserie chicken!!!!
What about nice thick pork chops? Wouldnt be dry at all
I’d make a roasted chicken.
I would make a chicken, I love Rotisserie chicken
The chickens that they show on the informercials always look fantastic so i would have to try to replicate that!
I’d try a pork loin
I’d make a beef roast first.
I’d make Velociraptor or a chicken… whichever I can find first.
That is one cool machine– I’d be cooking Chicken for sure
roasted chicken
I think I would take it on our annual Thanksgiving camping trip and use it for our turkey! How fun it would be! I also want to do the kabobs you mentioned!
I’d definitely make a roasted chicken. In my kitchen, almost every part–even the bones for broth–would be used.
I would make a chicken with some rubbed spices on it. I’ve always wanted to try to do a chicken this way at home!
Chicken
A chicken. I love chicken so much.
First thing I would cook is a whole chicken. Yours looks amazing! Thanks for the chance!
OH I would cook a rotisserie chicken like the grocery store has. We love those!
I would love to make a chicken in the Ronco Rotisserie. Have wanted one of those forever.
I would make either a full turkey breast or beef roast!
Ooh I’d love to make a roast on this thing!!
a whole chicken
If I win I would make chicken and potato wedges
If i won this,i would personally make 2 turkeys and take it to the sameritin center for the homeless on Christmas or New Years and then make one for my family.along with other things.Start giving and it comes back 10 fold:)
Chicken! My preggo self has been craving rotisserie chickens 🙂
Roast Turkey. Turkey shouldn’t be just for Thanksgiving
I would make roast chicken.
I would fix a rotisserie chicken!!! I would love to have this!!
definitely chicken wings
Ronco has been around since I was a little girl and they had all of thise commercials(infomercials) during Christmas time. Would love to be a part of this long standing companys promotions
I would make a rotisserie chicken.
Either Ham or chicken! I would use this all the time!
I would make a garlic chicken!
I would make a delicious rotisserie chicken, looks amazing!
I would so make a chicken!
The first thing I would make is a roast chicken.
I’d cook a pork roast
chicken of course
I would make Garlic Herb Chicken
I would make a chicken too. My little guy LOVES Chicken. Pretty much every day if you ask him what he wants for dinner the answer will be “chicken”.
CHICKEN!!! I had my RONCO Rotisserie since 2002 and it just recently broke (with a lil help from hubs when he dropped it!!!!) you can do so much with the Showtime Rotisserie…quite possibly one of my favorite kitchen appliances E.V.E.R
might make a turkey
Def a chicken! I love some yummy rotisserie chicken…that being said….the rotisserie chicken you can buy at stores is not yummy.
a chicken thanks
Chicken.
A lemon roasted chicken
I’d make a cornish hen
I would cook a turkey ,first.
I would either make a roast chicken or a roast beef
I would either make some chicken or a turkey
My dad has one of these and I have always wanted one! Roast beef is awesome!
ooh,maybe some cornish game hens!
I would definately make a chicken. It is a huge staple in my house:)
Chicken of course., then pork roast, Cornish hen, turkey or turkey breasted.and lots of taters and vegetables this is to start.
Chicken or Turkey!