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Spit Roasting (the food kind ;p)

  • 22-03-2007 2:59pm
    #1
    Chunks
    Registered Users Posts: 659 ✭✭✭


    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 :p

    Thanks in advance


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  • #2
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    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


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