pig roast / updated

[truckinbutch]

My own experience with whole carcase roasting is open pit.Great eating.Lots of work around the clock.
Low temp(under 225)for long hours,12 to 20,produces succulent,tender meat.
Higher temperatures will cook the meat but it will be tough if it had a tendency toward toughness to begin with.

 

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[bbqbull]

No expert here but have cooked whole hogs as well as thousands of pounds of pork and beef in a commercial bbq pit that I own.
There is between 35 to 45 percent waste on a whole hog.
I cook pork shoulders or pork butts. Still some shrinkage but nothing like the complete animal.

 

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[stefen]

A friend build a deep pit BBQ in his back yard that is approximatgely 3' wide X 6' long and 4' deep and is lined with concrete block (cinder block).

To BBQ, he builds a large wood fire in the bottom and lets it build up a 4 to 6" layer of hot coals. He then places pans of seasoned beef on top of the coals, using long steel hooked rods, then covers the pit with a heavy steel plate which is then covered with a 8 to 12" layer of earth.

After roasting 6 to 8 hours, the earth and steel plate are removed and the pans of meat are hooked and lifted out...

The meat literally falls apart...

We have used this for community dinners, 4-H events, 4th of July and other special times.

Also works well for lamb, pork, chicken and turkey.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm