Toss potatoes, oil, and rosemary on a rimmed baking sheet. Spread out potatoes in a single layer; season with salt and pepper. Roast, stirring once halfway through cooking, until potatoes are golden brown and crisp outside and tender inside, about 30 minutes.
A dowel is a solid cylindrical rod, usually made of wood, plastic, or metal. In its original manufactured form, a dowel is called a dowel rod.o make a dowel, a piece of wood is split or whittled to a size slightly bigger than desired and then driven through the hole in the dowel plate. The sharp edges of the hole shear off the excess wood.
Hammer beam joint. Use of dowels. Dowels should not be used as a primary load-bearing member except in rare cases of dowels in which they are specially designed and sized for shear load (gambrel roof rafters). For the most part, these pegs behave like cotter pins, doing nothing other than holding joints together.