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Here at spitting pig Hertfordshire there is nothing we love more than a good hog roast party!  We want to help you plan and host the perfect hog roast event that your guests will enjoy and more importantly always remember.

There are occasions, usually with larger pigs that when you carve into the shoulder and hind legs that the deepest cuts of meat are still a little bit rarer than you would like and although they are cooked and at Continue reading cooking pigs to perfection→

We’ve been out to fetes and parties ourselves and seen amateurs at work and all though you want your meat nice and moist you do not want it dripping with blood or as dry as a piece of leather and Continue reading spitting pig hertfordshire use outstanding machines and their catering experience to create the perfect feast→

The bottom line in all catering situations is testing using a temperature probe which should always be carried out before serving to ensure the meat is cooked to the required temperature (at least 65˚) which kills off all bacteria and Continue reading cooking the perfect hog roast safely→

Today we are in St Albans. It is an open day for the Army Air Corps. They are off to Arizona for a couple of months before being deployed To Afghanistan and it is a day for the wives and Continue reading Army open day in St Albans→

    From experience we know a 40kg pig will take about six hours to cook and a 50kg pig will take about seven hours. Lambs tend to cook in about three and a half hours to four hours. The Continue reading Cooking our spit roasted meats to perfection→

A whole lamb takes about three and a half hours and is so juicy and tender when it is cooked on a Spitting Pig hog roast machine. We got a phone call at nine tonight from a very satisfied brother, Continue reading spit roast lamb→

We spent this morning cleaning one of the machines that we used last night for function in Latimer, near Chesham  and this afternoon I am delivering a lamb for my brother. His birthday was back in March but for one Continue reading day in the life of a hog roast caterer→

The machine cleans up really good as long as you get rid of all the juices and fat from the previous night straight away. Otherwise you have a layer of dripping about a centimetre thick at the bottom of the Continue reading maintaning the hog roast machines→

We set back off to Watford and the rain hammered down, looks like another wet, cold night, still we have the new gazebo and we also set up a couple of heaters so we should be ok. When we got Continue reading Catering in all weathers→