Spit Roasting (the food kind ;p)

Chunks · 22-03-2007 1:59pm #1

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows how to go about spit roasting an animal such as a pig, lamb or venison.

I want to set upa roasting pit for my girlfriends birthday in the summer. There should be a big crowd over for it and i was thinknig of doing something different for it, kinda like a centrepiece job.

Anyway, anyone ever had experience in doing this? I've googled the idea and found a few companies that do the whole package but i'd like to do it myself from scratch. Where would i get the meat, would they prepare it for me, where would i get the necessry materials to make the apparatus etc...?

I got the idea for it when was in South Africa a few years back playing rugby and on the sideline all through the game they had a lamb splayed and spit roasting over a half oil drum, I wasn't able to stop looking over from where the smell was coming from all through the game

Thanks in advance

CJhaughey · 22-03-2007 5:33pm

It is really a lot of work to make a proper spit roast you need a mechanical turner or else be prepared to spend a long time sitting beside the fire.
I have seen a small pig done over a 200 litre barrel cut in half and filled with peat briquettes.
anyway enough waffling by me, use this page
http://www.3men.com/spitroasting.htm

Spit Roasting (the food kind ;p)

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