Anyway back to cooking the pig.

Step 4 – Cooking the Pig

Once you’ve got the pig on the stick, rake some of the coals from your fire into the area between the water pots, then lay the stick across the blocks on the top of the water pots.


^Starting to cook the pig (be careful not to get too carried away with the heat of the fire, slowly but surely is the tip for the first 10 minutes)

Once she’s been cooking for a while you should turn the heat up a bit to sear the skin a bit, this traps all the good pig oils and stuff in the meat.


^Turning the heat up a bit after 10 minutes

Keep your eye on the local black dogs, they like to duck in for a taste.


^Bloody black dog

Things should look like this after about 20 minutes, things get a little boring after this for a while, which makes it a good time to drink some whiskey, anything strong will do.


^Try to make sure things look like this

Once you’ve had a good drink, its time to turn the bastard over, just twist the bamboo a bit and you’re on your way.


^The back of the pig after about 25 minutes

Have a few more shots of whiskey, then start putting the pig at whatever angle you reckon is best.


^This is called spinning the pig

If you start getting a bit pissed you should start getting some burnt patches on the skin, this is a sign that you are going to have a good lunch. This is a good time to switch over to beer, preferably Chang.


^The dark bits of skin are friggin delicious and should be eaten with cold beer


^You can see where the best bits of skin are by looking at the skinless patches on the critter above


^This is a good time to take some thin slices off the legs and shoulders


^Take the first slices down until you can see a bit of blood then turn the sucker over


^Then slice off the belly flaps close up to the ribs (this bit is the delicious), by now the back should be cooked a bit more so spin the pig again


^This is the perfect time to get stuck into the legs


^Things should look like this. By now everyone should be pretty pissed and full, just keep enough coals under the sucker to keep things warm and trim off some meat whenever you feel hungry again.