April 15, 2013

Pig Roast: Attempt #1

Matt and Tyler attempting to make due with manually rotating the pig.
For our end-of-the-season party, everyone from work gathered together to roast a pig, eat drink and be merry. Since Tyler decided to roast a pig for my brother's rehearsal dinner in August, this dinner was going to be the first test run of his homemade portable spit.

 Unfortunately things did not go according to plan. The old scooter he had planned to use for a rotisserie motor did not work out at all. You can see the remains of the failed attempt to your right. Between manually turning the pig every three minutes with ratcheting tie-downs, and the biggest snow dump we've seen all season, the project had to be aborted. The pig had to be cut in thirds and thrown into the oven to finish cooking. It wasn't a total failure — we learned a lot and at least the skin crisped up nicely on the spit.

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