The burnt crispy bits left on the bottom of the roasting tin. Particularly beef. It’s rhick and sticky like tar, but tastes like heaven.

Today’s roast lamb was delicious. But the best bit was coming in from a chilly, wet ride to be met by the smell of said roast cooking.

The bit at the end – a pool of gravy with all the mint sauce, bits of broccoli, red cabbage (all lamb gone by this point) and crushing the last roastie into it and mopping up. By this point the joy of this is juxtaposed with the sadness of it all being over imminently. This just happened 🙂 🙁

The dogs cleaning out the roasting dish afterwards n the gravy pan .
Pre wash in our house..

Bread Sauce.

The farting a few hours after eating the stuffing.

(oh, and does anyone remember the particular jacket spud van on Torquay harbourside back in the early 2000s that served the drunken revelers? That was awesome)

Yes, we knew him as ‘the jacky P man’. (Original I know). Very fond memories, especially drinking the melted butter out of the tray at the end. Yummers!

As for the question, for me it’s the combination of the chicken breast, stuffing and gravy.

Crispy burnt ends on the roast parsnip.

Yorkshire pudding and crispy chicken skin or crackling

Crispy skin of chicken or lamb.
Crackling.
The warm moist fat of lamb.
The rare meat and wobbly fat bit right in the middle of a rib roast.
The well done end bits.
Proper gravy – i.e not out of a jar or packet.
Yorkshire puds.

Then afterwards:
Beef and horseradish sarnies.
Pork dripping.
Chicken broth made from the carcass.

This for me I reckon, although it’s usually something slow cooked rather than a roast.

The crispy edges of roast duck

The kip on the sofa afterwards.

@pictonroad – are you anywhere near The Lord Darcy in north Leeds?
Love their roast beef & Yorkshire wraps. Their sausages & mash are pretty good too

Has anyone ever had a roast in a restaurant that’s as good as one at home?
They always slip up on the roasties and the gravy.
If you can’t make gravy , you shouldn’t work in a kitchen.

Has anyone ever had a roast in a restaurant that’s as good as one at home?

Probably not.

If you can’t make gravy , you shouldn’t work in a kitchen.

If you can’t make gravy you shouldn’t attempt a roast.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a decent roast potato in a restaurant. They always taste old.