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Posted: 12/30/2006 9:34:00 PM EDT
I am pit cooking a whole hog for new years (IMU)
anyone else ever do this?
im using oak for my wood, and piling  volcanic rocks on top of the fire, plan on burning the fire for 4 hours, and now im trying to figure out how much time its going to take to cook a 50 lb pig.
this is the type of thing where im burying the pig in the pit.
i think 6 hours of cooking is ok, any advice would be cool
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 6:17:14 AM EDT
[#1]
sounds about right
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 6:29:43 AM EDT
[#2]
Post some pics if you can.Is there anything you need me to bring?
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 6:36:46 AM EDT
[#3]
Sounds like some good eating is about the had.

Post some pics.
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 6:47:10 AM EDT
[#4]
Be a good idea to have a meat thermometer on had and take a few readings before pulling it out of the hole.
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 6:50:24 AM EDT
[#5]
Keep it up off the coals, wrap the meat in wet sheets and burlap. Make sure you cover the doors to the pit completely (so that no smoke gets out). About 6-8 hours should do it nicely. We do a pit bbq for my family reunion--we cook about 600 lbs of beef. Goooooood eatin'!
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 6:50:54 AM EDT
[#6]
Never cooked one that small that way.
We used to let the 200# go all night.
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 7:05:20 AM EDT
[#7]
10 to 12 hours , you cant over cook it. wrap it in tie leaves and youll need some banana leaves and dont forget the wet berlap




688
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 7:53:33 AM EDT
[#8]
Would love to see pics of this.
Link Posted: 12/31/2006 8:13:29 AM EDT
[#9]
We just went and got us a hog that weighs about 450 pounds. It walked over to the fence thinking it was going to get something to eat and it did all right sig p229 to the head. LOL....I will post pics later
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