Pig Roast

Last weekend I threw another pig roast. We learned a few things from the last years roast, namely to start drinking beer earlier. This year I got larger lava rock from the Cascades and we started the fire earlier and had about 8 hours of rock cook time. We cooked it Imu style, in the ground surrounded by lava rock and then buried for half a day.

The pig ended up getting cooked to 160 degrees by 1pm, in just 5 hours. Where as last year it took at least 10 hours to get to 140. So it was more sucessful with the hotter rock. Steve (the pig) came out nicely cooked at 173 degrees and the skin just fell off and it was very easy to get the meat off. Next year maybe we'll try lamb.

Dan and Ron at fire

Motivational Posters

Not to knock the Mazamas too much, but I thought this was too funny to not make.