Hi Guys,

I'm ordering a new BBQ, and am thinking of putting a hog roast skewer onto the top, yep it's a big fella , but us greeks are keen on our food!!

My question is, has anyone roasted a whole deer/fawn over charcoal before and what was it like?

Also, if anyone knows where a "hog rotiserie" is made/sold at sensible money would they let me know?

I'm off to Suffolk in a couple of weeks and a whole muntie could be the order of the day!!

Thanks FB

Hey Fallowbuck,
I don't know if venison will dry out on a spit, lamb/pork has more fat to keep the meat moist. Armenians like bbq too, maily lamb...
9:45am and I feel like BBQ!

Hey there....

I'm a great believer in "where there's a will there's a way"...

A mate did a Hog roast a couple of years ago and spent 7 hours injecting the pig with Cider while it was cooking!! I don't know who was more pickled by the end, him or the pig!!!

Needless to say, the meat was just amazing in the end.

I was thinking something a little similar with the deer. I think it would be best with a small deer like a Muntie or a small Roe. so the cooking time is cut down and it shouldn't dry out too much. In Cyprus there is a skin that they sometimes wrap the lamb up in whichh stops it drying out.

Then it's just a case of deciding whhat to inject into it!!!

FB

When I was at college, we did it with a muntjac, and i seem to remember, but baring in mind this was after a session at the tunnel house (anyone from Cirencester way will no about thsi place), that we did it very slowly over charcoal. Do remember it tasting very good though.

FB where abouts in suffolk do you come?

Hey SWS,

I'm picking up a terrier from a mate in Halstead, but I get up to Hadleigh fairly regularly in the season. I should be up at the front end of the Roe buck season.

Where are you?

I live up near Debenham but have little bits of shooting all over the place.

Try La Caja China or www.lacajachina.com. Basically a Cajun Microwave but will cook most whole animals in 4-5 hours and is relatively easy to use.

Bon Appetite

Interesting concept, but not as atmospheric as the ole sheep on a stick idea.