Marian's Easy Roast Chicken

Ingredients

• 8 lb chickens whole
• 4 teaspoons kosher salt 
• 1 tablespoon olive oil 
• 2 teaspoons pepper freshly ground

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• wire rack
• kitchen thermometer

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 37
2. Stir together salt and pepper.
3. If applicable, remove necks and giblets from chickens, and reserve for another use. Pat chickens dry.
4. Sprinkle 1/2 tsp. salt mixture inside cavity of each chicken. Rub 1 1/2 tsp. olive oil into skin of each chicken.
5. Sprinkle with remaining salt mixture; rub into skin.
6. Place chickens, breast sides up, facing in opposite directions (for even browning), on a lightly greased wire rack in a lightly greased 17- x 12-inch jelly-roll pan.
7. Bake at 375 for 1 1/2 hours or until a meat thermometer inserted in thigh registers 18
8. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.