Ready, Steady, Cook – With Hog Roast Letchworth Garden City

Hog Roast Letchworth Garden City specialises in hog roasts and spit-roasted pigs. Both as equally delicious as the other however they involve different prep and cooking times.

Hog Roast Letchworth Garden CityHog Roast Letchworth Garden City’s famous hog roast is cooked in a ‘Hog Master’ machine. The pig has its belly, offal and trotters removed so that it can lay flat in a cooking tray. Before cooking the pig, the skin gets ‘scored’, this is when small slits are made across the bottom of the pig, across the middle of the pig and on top of the pig’s skin. Doing this helps us to portion the crackling and help it to be amazingly crispy and golden. Additionally, the pig gets a massage with water and table salt which helps the skin to bubble and react creating seriously crunchy crackling! Once the pig has been prepped, it is lowered into the ‘Hog Master’ machine ready to cook. Depending on the size of the pig, it will be slowly roasted between 8 and 12 hours to the consistency where the meat melts in the mouth and pulls away from the bones easily. 

Spit-roasted pigs are prepped and cooked differently. In order to do a spit-roast Hog Roast Letchworth Garden City must skilfully attach the pig to a spit pole using a spit kit to stabilise the pig during the cooking stage. The same process of ‘scoring’ the pig’s skin and massing the pig’s skin with water and table salt is done before its lowered into the machine to cook. Where the hog roast is self-sufficient running of a single gas bottle, the ‘Titan’ machine needs electricity in order for the spit to turn around and the pig to cook equally. It takes a shorter amount of time for the pig to cook, small pigs taking 3 to 4 hours and bigger pigs taking 6 hours. It all depends on how many kilograms the pig weighs.

Spit-roasted meat doesn’t necessarily fall off the bone, but it still tastes gorgeous and is more of a carvery texture rather than pulled. The best thing about spit-roasted meat is the theatre of it. The client and their guests get to experience it from start to finish and watch as it spins around cooking. It also smells divine when it’s cooking so makes the guests mouths drool as their bellies rumble out of hunger for their much-anticipated treat! As the pig turns and the heat is equally distributed, it helps the crackling bubble up perfectly! 

Hog roast Letchworth Garden City serves these mouth-watering roasts with soft rolls and sauces. A hot tasty treat for this time of the year!