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Along with my fiancée, mum and dad, I run a pig roast business. But what do you guys think about pig roasts?? Yay or nay, and if nay, why not? All views welcome, be it religious, animal rights or whatever. And, have you ever attended a pig roast and thought 'that could've been done better...?'
Mmmmm, pig
It's cooked pig. What's not to love?
Yay, if someone else is paying.
I do like a big bit of dead pig.
Yeah Moses I'd feel the same...haha 😉
I don't know Jamie, I don't like cooked pig, but some people don't like the whole 'pig roast' idea, and seeing as i'm totally taking it over next year, (i'm only 19 btw) I like to ask these sort of questions.
Hang on....what? You don't like cooked pig, but run a pig roast company?
Hmm...it's like having a skinny chef. I just don't trust it 😉
Although the piggy is in the middle, so to speak, you need to cater for those who don't do meat too, and make it as exciting and as central.
I'm not a veggie but my kids are and it's a bit tricky to attend any kind of roasted amnimule thing as a result.
J - I don't like cooked pig simply because I've cooked so many. You know?
We do cater for those who don't eat meat, garlic mushrooms are supplied at every event but what else could I do for veggies????
but what else could I do for veggies????
Don't compromise. Pig or nothing.
baked spuds, veggie kebabs, roast corn cobs and amusingly shaped root vegetables should keep the meat dodgers happy 😀
Yay for me so long as they taste good.
We do cater for those who don't eat meat, garlic mushrooms are supplied at every event but what else could I do for veggies????
Are we getting paid for this consumer survey?
...but try checking out the competition:
http://www.rolypolypigroast.co.uk/vegetarian-menu
http://www.bigroast.com/hog-roasts-options/vegetarian-hog-roast/
and this thread has some good stuff/links on it:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3123622&highlight=vegetarian+hog+roast
Love a good pork roll with crispy crackling and apple sauce 🙂
Sod the veggies they can pick at the side salad 😉
but what else could I do for veggies????
Not invite them?
Pig roast, isn't that just some kind of fancy barbeque?
It wasn't as such a consumer survey Jamie just questions of what you guys like/don't like about pig roasts lol.
You can kinda tell that the veg options on 'bigroasts' website are frozen >.<.
The guy who runs piggysquire makes just shy of a six figure salary from pig-roasts...you wouldn't think it.
Yeah with a £3,000 gas BBQ.
I guess it's an event thing and significantly more than just roasting a pig, no?
I could see something at a cycling event like a 24/12 where there are loads of supporters milling around.
Yeah with a £3,000 gas BBQ.
Aaah! Not even a proper BBQ. 😥
It's whatever you make it out to be Simon 🙂
It is a proper BBQ, just a damn big one. 100 jacket potatoes, 30 whole chickens, 2 small lamb?
Only problem with a pig roast is that there's not enough of them!
Oh, and bad crackling, always a let down!
Only problem with a pig roast is that there's not enough of them!
I think this sums it up nicely for me.. (although the local agricultural suppliers has a permanent hog roast stall outside their store, so I can't complain)
some mates hired the kit and roasted a pig in their back garden one weekend and had a big party.. I woke up some time the following day in a sleeping bag with the stripped bare and gently cooling carcass..
My wife has a friend in Petersfield that does hog roasts. He roasts it over charcoal in a contraption that he's made, which he tows to the venue - a big enclosed metal trailer essentially.
Lovely in a bap with mustard sauce and a pint of cider nomnomnom.
some mates hired the kit and roasted a pig in their back garden one weekend and had a big party.. I woke up some time the following day in a sleeping bag with the stripped bare and gently cooling carcass..
When's the wedding?
but what else could I do for veggies????
Crackling?
suckling piglet, cooked over a fire pit on a goan beach ahh the memorys,getting a rush of blood thinking about it,twitch twitch 😯
If done right........ Mmmmmmmm..........
Although you don't see them very often. If going down the veggie / BBQ route then it has to be good quality. Not an after thought.
* I'll have fire up the Weber tomorrow to slow roast the leg of pork that's in the fridge. Nom nom nom.
What a mistake to read this thread, I am now starving & salivating... time for a bacon sandwich...
I was once bet that i couldn't eat certain parts of the roast pig at such an event...
The ears were rather nice if a little chewy.
The tail was lovely
the trotters similar but finicky
the snout however is definitely for the purist only... 😳
I've attended quite a few 3DayEvents (neddies) and they love a bit of meat they do. I do too as it happens (not that I eat a great deal of meat these days)
Have you tried the local Horsey crowd? Could be a go'er.
As for Pig Roasts, well, yes please.
We had a pig roast at my wedding (no euphemism intended!)
Lovely it was.
What made it was really good fresh bread. Nothing worse than rubbish bread.
Spit roast pig is some of the best meat I've ever had
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How about venturing into the world of authentic slow cooked texas BBQ?
Ribs, brisket sandwiches etc etc
What made it was really good fresh bread. Nothing worse than rubbish bread.
+1
Friend has a bar mitzvah coming up soon. There's a market you could break into. Massive social gatherings I believe.
My top tips would be, don't cut the meat/crackling off and then keep it in a pot with a lid on, as it all goes soggy and watery.
Also, make sure all the bristles are off before cooking, a few are tolerable but crackling that looks like a brush isn't the nicest.
Don't drown the pork in gallons of apple sauce if you are making the rolls for people, its not supposed to be a pudding.
Most importantly, make sure you are buying outdoor reared high welfare British pigs, and let everyone know that.
the bread comments above are so right. If you are using a quality pig for roasting nothing will let it down more than rubbish supermarket (chorleywood process) bread. Get a quality bread supplier and you'll have a winner, you could even make it yourself it's easy.
I love the sound of crackling in the morning.
my post uni plan was to start a hog roast co.
if the current company doesn't quite work out, i might investigate again...
fill the plate with cheap salad.. them pig fings is expensive!
Where abouts are you was wanting a hog roast for my birthday party
Most importantly, make sure you are buying outdoor reared high welfare British pigs, and let everyone know that.
Agree with getting the best quality fresh bread too.
Homemade apple sauce, hot pork and a squidgy fresh bap, oh my!
I think its all about the event you are catering for... We nearly opted for a Hog roast at our wedding but our caterer pointed out the faff and issues that come with either serving seated guesrs or getting 100+ people out to the pig and back to tables smoothly, in the end we went for bangers and mash and it was a winner (plus a bit cheaper), went to another wedding a few weeks after ours and even though it was less formal there were timing issue with their hog roast (mostly down to the caterers really).
If its a fair or fireworks display type job, a basic pig in a bun with a couple of sauce choices stall is all you need; quick happy customer turnover works then. for smaller friends and family events all the trimmings can really make the day. We went to a friends birthday party last summer and the Hog roasters went way above and beyond lots of choices for sides from roasties to salad, plenty of serving staff and three spare pop up gazebo so everyone could have some cover when it rained they were a good outfit IMO.
I was once bet that i couldn't eat certain parts of the roast pig at such an event...
Lightweight. For the record, roast pig brain is a bit like pate.
I always grab the cheeks whenever I can 😀
Good idea for weddings is have the hog roast during the drunken dancing well after the wedding breakfast. Some friends of mine did this at their wedding recently. Only problem is sometimes people are too drunk to appreciate it then. Another wedding we went to did similar but with lots of lovely bacon butties 😀
I love hog roasts and would also agree with the 'use decent bread' comment. Yes you are there for the pork mainly but using horrible cheap bread really spoils the experience and wastes what could be amazing.
The vet school here has an annual hog roast for the students but unfortunately the very strong local scrumpy means a lot of it gets ejected from the bodies a bit prematurely - what a waste 🙁
Unlike SLJ I do dig on swine.
got one for my mums 50th birthday -- went down very well with all - expensive though , think i still have leftovers in the chest freezer
Gas BBQ's are real BBQ's!!
As for hog roast, nice crackling and good bread are key.
As for the veggies what ever you cook make sure it's done in the pig juices, dont want them to miss out do you!
A good hog roast is as close to heaven as one can get without leaving the mortal coil....
A bad hog roast? I know not of such things. It's a bit like sex, when it's good it's great. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.
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That reminds me, I have some scratchings in the cupboard.
Hog roast, apple sauce, nice bread. Dear lord, there's nothing nicer.
but what else could I do for veggies????
I'm with Frankie Boyle when it comes to the veggie option - 'you can **** off'.
bigjim - The pigs are all trussed, scored and prepared by our local butcher. We also tend to only put the pork in the rolls and let the guests of the event do the rest themselves, makes it much quicker and most people like to do sauce etc themselves. Our pigs are all free-range outdoor reared duroc breeds, these come in at £2.40/kg, as apposed to the bottom of the line coming in at around a pound cheaper/kg :).
All bread comments, we did try using fresh bread, but the profit margin wasn't as great as frozen baps defrosted, it was considerably less. Do you think that using fresh bread, baked the morning of the event is worth paying for, perhaps an extra £50 more?
Creaser - we are based in oxford but will travel generally 40miles out if it's worth our time.
cookeaa - It's strange you say that about the wedding issues. we mostly only cater for weddings, and it really is as simple as 1 2 3, you give each table a number, and each table goes and collects their food in turn. If 'buffet service' is not your kind of thing, then, atleast in our business, we offer a plate service where we would supply more than enough waitresses to plate up and serve the food to your guests. In regards to the gazebo thing for the rain, it's generally down to the guests to get a marquee normally, and a good gazebo costs alot of money.
bradley - regarding the bread, you could buy really nice, properly baked bread and freeze that.
It's what we do at home.