Abstract: A poultry roasting assembly and a method of making same for suspending a bird horizontally over a pan of water by a spit rod inserted under the back bone. The assembly includes a first U-shaped member (14) having a pair of parallel arms (16) extending out from a base section (18). The parallel arms (16) extend in the same direction perpendicularly from opposite ends of the base section (18). A second U-shaped member (20) is included and has the same configuration as the first U-shaped member (14) but with shorter arms (16). A pivot pin (38) pivotally attaches the first U-shaped member (14) to the second U-shaped member (20) at a point (22) spaced from the distal ends (24) of each of the parallel arms (16) so that the distal ends (24) of the arms (16) form a V-shaped configuration (26) above the pivotal attachment (22) when the base sections (16) are pivoted apart, thereby forming a support structure for the spit rod.