a device for automatically rotating rotisserie skewers includes a holder with a front panel and a rear panel provided with notches on the upper edges thereof for receiving skewers . each skewer has a handle with a concentric cog wheel . a worm screw driven by a motor rotates the skewers via the respective cog wheels . a cog wheel is automatically disengaged from the worm screw when the skewer rotated by said cog wheel gets stuck , while the other skewers continue to be rotated .