Are you hosting a dinner party and don’t know what to cook? Instead of watching Come Dine With Me and flicking through countless recipe books, why not take a leaf out of BigRoast.com’s cook book and delight your dinner guests with a main course of spit roast?

A spit roast will be an exciting way to entertain your guests as well as feed them. You can roast all sorts of meats, so find out which meat is the most popular amongst your guests, we’ve found a spit roast chicken to go down quite well, and cook that particular meat.

If you have vegetarians attending, no worries, simply roast a variety of vegetables such as peppers and aubergines and serve with delicious salad options and fresh bread.

You can hire a company to prepare, cook and serve the spit roast for you if you would rather spend your time entertaining your guests with your witty humour and sophisticated wine selection, but if you would prefer to get your hands dirty and make this a labour of love so to speak, you can always hire a spit roast machine and cook it yourself.

Prices for hire of a spit roast machine vary depending on whether you hire the machine and return it clean or unclean and of course whether you want the machine and the meat or just the machine. If you would like more information on spit roast machine hire from BigRoast.com please click here.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.

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This year promises to be bigger and better than 2009 – there’s so much to look forward to, new designs for cars, clothes and appliances as well as new never before seen holiday destinations!

But what’s surprising is that spit roasts are fastly becoming the catering option of choice for many corporate and sporting events for 2010. It shouldn’t really be surprising in actual fact as spit roasts are the perfect way to feed a large amount of hungry guests in a creative and different way.

A popular way to serve village people back in the day, it seems the humble spit roast has made a massive comeback as they are becoming hugely popular in the UK at the moment and will continue to be over the next few years no doubt.  They are popping up all over the place and can be seen at most of the summer music festivals as well as family days in the park.

The spit roast can cater for events between 10 to 100 people and as there are smaller cuts of meat cooking simultaneously the serving time is less than what it would take for a hog roast.

Big Roast is able to spit roast a variety of meats including lamb, chicken, turkey and goose and have even been asked to cook cuts of beef for customers. Please feel free to let us know what cut of meat you would prefer.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.

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It’s already Christmas, who can believe this year has gone as fast as it has? With 2009 behind us it’s time to focus on 2010 and what we hope to achieve throughout the New Year. 2009 was a roaring success for BigRoast.com we saw an increased number in bookings around the summer period and a surprising amount of Christmas bookings.

2010 will be a big year for us here at BigRoast.com as we will be looking towards providing new and improved products, side dishes and salads as well as work on continuing the high class quality of our current meat selection.

Although we’ve had hundreds of happy customers providing us with wonderful feedback on our hog roasts, lamb roasts and spit roast varieties, we always strive for the best so we will be continuing to aim for the stars to provide you with the best quality meats. 

As we’re always on the lookout for new and interesting ideas, if you have any suggestions of what you’d like to see us provide in the way of meat, salads or side dishes please feel free to drop us a line at contact@bigroast.com all comments welcome!

BigRoast.com would like to wish all of its customers and suppliers a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.

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Do you have a special event or occasion around the corner that you’d like to have catered? Perhaps it’s a wedding or a small celebration with your family. Whatever the reason, there’s always room for a spit roast to feed your guests with!

Why pay hundreds and thousands of pounds for a massive catering team to come to your venue or home only to serve you tiny peices of items they call food? For a fraction of the cost for a catering team, a spit roast london style will provide stacks of delicious meat for your guests and with no worry to you. If you choose a well established and experienced spit roast company to cater your event, you will be pleasantly surprised with the service and amount of food you will get for the small price tag attached.

Big Roast is London’s premier spit roast company, they have been catering events and parties since 2006 and have the best selection of British grown meat around. You can choose to have pork, chicken, lamb, turkey and even goose to be cooked rotisserie style for your guests. Additionally, a spit roast takes half the time a hog roast does to prepare, cook and serve so the team at Big Roast can be in and out of your event quickly and easily providing you with a hassle free service.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and spit roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450

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Spit roasts used to be a very popular way to celebrate a special occasion, however there was a time where the humble disappeared from our catering options. They were seen to be almost an uncool, old fashioned backyard bbq than a stylish way to feed guests. Nowadays, the spit roast is back and it’s proving to be more popular than ever. Almost all summer music festivals and smaller special events will have a spit roast stand and more and more people are opting for a spit roast london style for their weddings and other special parties.

One of the main reasons why spit roasts are making a comeback is beacuse people are realising what a cost effective and fun way it is to cater for a party. It’s still got that element of “uniqueness” which children especially love, but more importantly, a spit roast can provide all of the flavour of a whole hog in a quicker and often more convenient time frame. An entire hog roast can take up to seven hours to prepare, cook and carve whereas a spit roast will take less than half that amount of time. As the cut of meat is also smaller it is less expensive and there will not be as many leftovers.

A spit roast is great for smaller more intimate events such as weddings. The spit is cooked in a rotisserie style with a wide variety of meats. If you choose to have a spit roast at your next event, London’s premier hog and lamb roast company Big Roast can come and take car of it for you. Bog Roast is able to spit roast a variety of meats including lamb, chicken, turkey and goose.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.

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Big Roast, London’s best hog roast company understands that, although we may be the original roaster in the capital, we didn’t invent the pig roast and its essence comes from the medieval invention of roast boar. Obviously Big Roast likes to use more advanced cooking equipment but surprisingly roasting methods are often the same as those used hundreds of years ago. As a testament to those original hog roasters we would like to share some other 14th century recipes famous in the world of medieval cooking.

Cormarye

2 lbs. pork loin
1 1/2 tsp. coriander
1 1/2 tsp. caraway
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups red wine
1 cup broth

Mix spices and garlic with wine and pour over pork in a roasting pan. Cover and bake at 350° until cooked through, basting regularly. Strain the drippings from the roasting pan into a saucepan, along with the broth. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 15 minutes. Serve sauce with pork.

Bukkenade

2-3 lbs. beef, cut into cubes
1 Tbsp. parsley
1 tsp. sage
1 tsp. hyssop
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. mace
4 egg yolks
3/8 cups verjuice
1/2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. salt
pinch saffron

Put the beef into a large pot along with water to cover – about 8 cups. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes. Skim off and discard any scum that forms on the surface. Add parsley, sage, hyssop, cloves, and mace. Stir well and simmer for another 30 minutes, or until the beef is tender. Temper the egg yolks in a separate bowl by slowly whisking in a cup or two of the broth from the pot. Add the remaining ingredients to the pot along with the egg mixture and stir. Remove from heat when as soon as it comes back to a boil.

Tostee

1/4 cup red wine

• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/8 tsp. ground ginger
• pinch salt
• pinch pepper
• 2 slices toast
• fresh ginger

Peel fresh ginger and chop very finely. Set aside.

Put wine, honey, ground ginger, salt, and pepper into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce to medium heat and simmer until bubbles start to stack – or until syrup is thick when cool. Spoon over toast and sprinkle with a little fresh ginger. Serve hot.

The next time you have a party think about cooking some of these medieval delights or if you don’t want to do the work yourself then let the Big Roast team come and create a Hog roast banquet for you.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450

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If you use the Urban Dictionary you may be shocked by their interpretation of a spit roast but Big Roast would like to assure everyone that this hog roast in Highgate was sensational without any connotations. Roasting up a real treat our chef created a feast of flavours with a mixture of pork loins and whole chickens to cook a banquet with a real mix.

Big Roast is famed for it’s whole hog roasts and lamb roast but if you want a smaller event or more variety to your meal Big Roast’s spit roast is a flexible alternative that can be a real winner. The pork loins we cooked up for this North London event provided a similar hog roast roll to the spectacular whole pig roast that is a favourite at weddings and anniversaries. Coupled with this was spit roast and split roast chickens to add a little variety. Roasting the chickens by both the spit roast and split roast technique our chef was able to provide both lightly roasted and char-grilled chicken at the same time.

Big Roast can provide an appropriate roast for any event, no matter how large or small. We like to adapt to make you event everything you want it to be. As London’s original hog roast and spit roast company we have the knowledge and expertise to make your event a superb experience. Big Roast would like to thank Richard for inviting us into his home to cater for this event. We really appreciated the excellent feedback and hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did.

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Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and spit roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450

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Spit roasts don’t come much bigger than this event at The Cambria’s Big Lunch event in Camberwell, South London. Big Roast, London’s leading spit roast, lamb roast and hog roast specialist, was on hand to provide a spectacular hog roast and delicious spit roast for this massive spit roast event. Not only was this spit roast event massive in size it was massive in success with The Cambria’s event planner, Steve Risely, organising an absolutely brilliant street party complete with an extremely talented band, action packed activities and delightful food including Big Roast’s trademark spit roast and hog roast.

Big Roast has to salute The Cambria for organising such an impressive event. Big Roast has posted some pictures of this spit roast specticle but they can’t really convey this Big Lunch, hog roast and spit roast, event in full swing. Our chefs really enjoyed the music and we’re positive Big Roast weren’t the only ones. Over 200 revellers attended The Cambria Big Lunch and everyone’s smiling face has to be a testiment to how good this street party was. Big Roast’s spit roast was a little part and Big Roast’s hog roast was bigger piggy part of The Big Lunch success and Big Roast are really happy that we were invited to take part.

Big Roast would like to thank The Cambria, and especially Steve, for letting us provide the spit roast and hog roast at his street party. We really enjoyed takling part and really appriciate the excellent feedback. We feel privaledged to have been part of the Big Lunch and look forward to working with you again. Thanks again from the Big Roast.

“Fantastic. Great team and great advice.”

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Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and spit roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450

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Big Roast is London’s spit roast specialist. We provide the best hog roasts, lamb roasts and spit roasts across London and last weekend was no exception. Traveling out to Kent we cooked up a beautiful lamb roast for this outdoor event. Complemented with a selection of salads we’d like to think that the Bermingham’s lamb roast was a resounding success.

We’ve posted a few pictures below and as you can see the weather was as spectacular as the food. Big Roast can’t wait for this weekend to meet, greet and cater for yet more people, who are hopefully as delightful as the Bermingham’s are.

The feedback we received was great – “ I just want to say thanks to your chef, Steve, who was a brilliant chef at our party. He was very efficient, worked really hard and was very friendly as well. He offered to help us with the preparations for our party, and he was lovely when he served to all our guests. The food was very tasty and we would definitely use you again. Once again, many thanks, especially to the lovely South African, Steve!”

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Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and spit roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450

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Customers of Big Roast can also hire our equipment to do their own hog roasts. Although we don’t recommend this for the inexperienced, there are a lot of people who have the necessary skills. For more information on hiring a spit roasting machine please email us at contact@bigroast.com.

Buying your hog

• Order your pig from a specialty butcher. It is often necessary to give them 7 days advance notice. Before purchasing make sure the pig is absolutely clean. You can purchase your hog directly from Big Roast’s sister company – www.englishmeat.co.uk.
• Dressed pigs are 70% of the live weight.
• Smaller animals will have a greater percentage of bone and skin and will yield proportionately fewer servings of meat.
• The carcass should be opened butterfly-fashion.
• A 75 lb hog should equate to  30 lb of cooked pork for serving
• A 100 lb hog should equate to 40 lb of cooked pork for serving.
• A 125 lb hog should equate to 50 lbs of cooked pork for serving.
• A good estimate for a serving is 1 ½ lb of meat per person.

Spit Roast Cooking instructions

• Cook the pig 12″ away from the source of heat – most spit roasting machines are set to around this distance.
• Keep the heat constant using all the burners available on the spit roasting machine
• Fluctuating heat will add to your hog roast cooking time.
• For a 110 pound live weight the estimated cooking time is 8-10 hours.
• When pig reaches 160 degrees farenheight move the pig away from the heat. Use a meat thermometer to check on the heat on a regular basis.
• An estimated 1-2 hours will keep the pig warm without drying out.
• Timings cannot be certain! You must be flexible in the timing and cooking process, and checking the hog often is essential.
• When using a spit roasting machine make sure that the weight is evenly distributed.

Please call us if you have any questions. If you wish us to assist you while you cook and serve a hog roast for your party we can arrange for one of our roasters to observe and assist.

Please note that these are basic instructions and if you are interested in going ahead with this we will provide you with significantly more detailed instructions. Big Roast is not liable for any misuse of these instructions.

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