
really hope you can make it ollie.
The point of the rocks are to truly heat them as much as possible, all the research I have done suggests keeping thi fire going overnight on the rocks then aranging the rocks to accomidate the carcass, then you put some rocks into the cavity, drop the bananna stalks in and set the pig on top, you cover the hole with soaked burlap and a thick cloth tarp then shovel sand on top to stop any of the steam escaping and 9 hours is the standard, you cant overcook it so a couple hours more wont hurt but we want to have the swine in the ground by dawn, this should give plenty of time even if we go a bit longer it WILL be done by dinner time. I have done this before but we used volcanic rock, the plan now is to use found rock out there as to not need a truckload of forign rock to be left out there, Kinda sucks because I ecpect most of the found rock to be granite and it likes to pop and crack but we will compensate with mesqite coal. I have no doubt that this will turn out just fine. I really hope to see some more of this site folks out there. it's gonna be a great event.OLLIE wrote:If my calculations aren't screwed up then you'll need to cook a pig of that size for more like 16 hours unless you have plans on superheating the rocks somehow. I hope I can make this. We'll see what happens.BoBoNel wrote:this is going to be...by far....THE spring event!!
hope you all can make it. we'll be stuffing the poor pig down into a hole to cook for 9 hours....while we sit around drinking and drinking and drinking some more. ha ha ha
come on out!!
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