Post #616485 by MadDogMike on Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:37 PM

That's a good looking pig Johnny D. Q-Tiki & Tiki-Zen, thanks for the advise. I had seen that 3 Cuban Guys website and got some good info from there. They are cooking their pig above the fire (but still indirect), we are building our fire over the pig similar to the Caja China

Since we are cooking for 2 parties, 8 days apart we were originally going to split a 100 lb pig and cook half for each party. But we decided instead to get two 50 lb pigs instead. For one thing it solves that "where am I going to store half a dead pig for a week" problem. We were going to put a handful of chickens in the pit too and glaze them with spicy orange sauce. But it turns out that whole uncooked chickens cost $5.50, cooked chickens are $5. Instead of worrying about the chickens cooking at a different rate than the pig, we'll just use the precooked birds and glaze them at the last minute :D

1st pig is this Friday, I'll post pics.