Hog Roast Machine Accessories - Pig Roast Machine Accessories - Spit Roast Machine Accessories

When we first started using a hog roast machine we just used it to cook pigs as this is what we thought they were all about. In fact for the first five years apart from the odd lamb we just cooked whole big pigs. Having said that this is also what our customers where asking for. But this is probably a reflection of what we offered. Then we realised that there are all sorts of different attachments you can buy to use with any hog roast machine and particularly with spit roast machines that means you can use them to do absolutely all sorts of different things. The obvious one is the chicken rotisserie which immediately got used in the butchers shop to cook whole chickens on a Saturday afternoon all the families would then come in and buy a cooked chicken for tea; this doubled our chicken sales literally over night. The rotisserie arrived with instructions it was very straight forward to use you just unclipped the bars slipped on your chickens then clipped them back. Load up the machine turn on a low flame and two and a half hours later thirty five cooked chickens well we were getting a fiver a time for them so we where well pleased. You cannot beat the smell and the taste of freshly spit roasted chicken it is not surprising that the super markets jumped on the band wagon, the difference is we where spit roasting organic chickens from a farm down the road and this was before organic became trendy we just wanted to sell a quality product.

They really give themselves to spit roasting just sprinkle on a little salt and a few fresh herbs nothing else and they are a delight to behold. Anyway that is what we started doing the chicken rotisserie was delivered on Friday cooking by lunchtime Saturday sold out by three pm Saturday afternoon and that became a weekly occurrence. We then thought what else could we stick on there really as an offering for our catering operation to give people more choice. We looked at our cuts of beef and decided o use boned and rolled rib as they are a succulent cut not too big and quick to cook through. We managed to load fifteen boned and rolled ribs of beef on from a fine young bull bred in nearby Hereford. We cooked it in the shop again as a tester and the reaction from our customers was fantastic so we put the option on to our catering menus and it is still there to this day. Well once we where confident with chicken and beef there was no stopping us. A local shoot had a roe deer they wanted cooking so we brought it up to the shop and cut it up into nice size pieces loaded it onto the rotisserie and used it at their presentation dinner. It went down a storm because they were eating local produce from the country side around where we live, we managed to source the entire meal from farms around the area. So whatever you are thinking of spit roasting it can probably be accommodated by a chicken spit. You may need a butcher to prepare the cuts of meat for you but once that bit is done the rest is simple. You can cook a full rotisserie of meat in less than four hours.

The next hog roast machine accessory we bought was a bbq set. We were always struggling to get all the equipment into the back of our transit van. By the time we had the hog roast machine in at the front right hand side, then the trestle tables and gazebos next to that all the veg salad and potatoes on top of these, chef whites on top of the hog roast machine, then behind these we had to squeeze in our charcoal barbecue and then stack everything else around it shut the doors and cross our fingers and toes that when we arrived on site everything would not fall out in a very unprofessional heap on the driveway of some country mansion. With Mr and Mrs Smythe Jones looking on in disbelief thinking oh my god are these really our catering team for Jocasta's twenty first birthday party. Something was going to have to change. We looked at buying a new van but the present one was fine just a bit to small but great for everything else economical to run fitted on the drive and we could still get our car our in front of it so that we were not annoying the neighbours by parking vehicles on the street. We looked at trailers but new they were about two thousand pounds upwards and we would have to fit a tow bar on the van another three hundred pounds we thought there must be an easier solution to what is really just a space issue. So we had a look at what other hog roast machine accessories where available and low and behold there it was a bbq attachment for a hog roast machine. At first I thought I was dreaming how had someone come up with the very thing that we were looking for.

Of course the answer was simple everyone was in the same boat no space and needing to do barbecues at events as an option to the hog roast. It was so easy we just called and paid by credit card and they where delivered bright and early the next morning in a big box. We did not have the luxury of a dry run as we had a bbq ion the next day. So we left the charcoal barby at home and loaded in our new bbq accessory plates. They even fitted inside the hog roast machine with the pig. So no extra space was needed and with our discount they had only cost us two hundred and ninety five pounds less than a tow bar never mind a trailer or a new van. Well come the glorious moment we raised our pig ready for serving and slid the bbq plates underneath they where a perfect snug fit with no gap well done you engineers hurrah for laser cutting technology. We turned the burners on to medium heat and within five minutes we where cooking burgers. No lighting fires and getting black hands with the charcoal barbecue and no extra piece of equipment. These barbecue accessories work a treat and will churn out fifty burgers in no time at all soon we had sausage chicken stir fries all sorts of options to the pig on our menus and all on the one machine. This is a revolution in hog roast catering one machine but an endless menu untold of opportunities. Suddenly you can get another two hundred and fifty pounds from the same event by offering a chicken stir fry or sausage steaks kebabs whatever the customer fancies. The other great thing about using these barbecue accessories rather than a charcoal bbq is that there is no having to deal with a load of red hot dirty charcoal at the end of the job, just scrub down the plates and load them back into the van. We had a real shock one Sunday morning when we came to empty our van the charcoal barby was still smouldering. We had poured on loads of water after the job but in the dark we had not realised the fire was still burning we could easily have lost our van and all our hog roast equipment.

Last but by no means least on our accessories list is the hog roast kit. This will turn any spit roast machine into a hog roast machine what is the difference I hear you cry? Well a hog roast cooks things in a big roasting tray like in your oven at home but a much bigger version, The beauty is that there are no moving pieces so the hog roast kit will really last a life time they are absolutely bullet proof you can scrub them down with green scrubbers or wire wool and they will come up sparkling clean every time. You can chuck anything you want into the tray to cook one of our customers even uses his to cook fresh bread on site for his hog roast catering events. We tend to use ours for bigger or funny shaped pigs or sometimes if it is a remote location and we are not sure if we will be able to get power we just use the hog roast tray as it does not matter about power because there is no motor involved with the cooking. They are also good for doing a variety of different choices from the same cook you can just put different items in at different times and then they are already to serve at the same time. We did a party recently where they wanted a pig a whole turkey and some beef served with jacket potatoes and salads. We started off the pig first, three hours later put in the turkey, then the beef, two hours before serve we put in one hundred and thirty jacket potatoes and then hey presto everything was ready to serve at the same time.