Day before Thanksgiving around 2009 or so my Mom was baking pies when the bottom unit in the oven burned out. About 3 minutes after Lowe's closed.
Brother and I managed to jury rig the upper element to the bottom (NOT a great solution, but it worked) and we at least had some oven capacity, enough for Mom to finish the pies, but we were really worried about our ability to cook dinner.
Mom, Brother and I were sitting in the living room sort of talking about what we could do when my Sister-in-Law walks in from the kitchen holding the Walmart circular.
They had just moved into a new place and it didn't have a stove yet, and she said to my Brother "We should get one of these GE roasters that Walmart has on sale" to use until the new stove is delivered.
My Brother and I looked at each other. Never even said a word, just complete realization. Stood up at the same time and headed out the door.
Something like $35 for an 18-quart model. Easily fit the roughly 20 pound bird we had. Cooked it brilliantly, except that it didn't really brown the drippings (so gravy was kind of bland) and the skin didn't get nice and crispy.
We cooked the birds that way every holiday until Mom died in 2017.
I'd have one of those, but I really don't have the need for one and I really don't have the place to keep one.
