Weekend Hog Roast

[Jekart]

This past weekend some friends and I roasted a hog for the first time for end of summer party. Despite being a novice we had a tremendous success. A big thanks goes out to Spanky for his last minute assistance on Friday, the rubs and injection where fantastic. I bought all the stuff for the mop but totally forgot to make it up. We opted to just use a couple of beers and some applejuice.

Here is the Q-View-

We estimate the beast to be about 130-140 ish.

Here it is rubbed and just lit the fire at 7:00am.
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This is at 9:00am
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12:30
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2:30
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3:30pm
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4:30
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I got busted "sampling"
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Here is an action photo just before cutting it up.

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Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the sliced pig. It turned out fantastics. It was cooked at 250-275 from 7-12 and we kicked the heat up to 300-315 for the last five hours.

[Bushbow]

That looks awesome!! Was the skin on or off? I cannot tell from the picks? I am looking forward to doing my first Whole Hog in the cooker I built. Thanks for sharing the pics.

Bob Urban

[Spanky]

very nice job and great pics. Glad I was of some help. Maybe next time you can use that mop recipe.;) Was there any left, and how many folks had some?

[Jekart]

Spanky, I believe we fed around 30-40. We went through 3 large pans of meat. The host finished the carving and got 7 1 gallon bags full. He now has 5 after I took my share :D.

BushBow - That hog was skinned at the market. It came with head on but wouldn't fit on the cooker so....We trimmed it :D

[Firemedic]

That looks great, I bet the skin was some fine eats! I'll be another to say, you can always count on Spanky to lend a hand. I had to call him a few times this week to get a few last minute pointers. Stand up guy in my book.