Recent content by gavinwj

All said and done; the hog turned out fairly well and the party was great. I decided to half the hog down the backbone, removed the head, and lay it on racks (skin side up), binding the front to the back legs. It smoked at about 225° for close to eight hours. It took good smoke flavour, but I...

Hog is bought and thawed. It's what I have, and smoking it is what I'll do at this point. Now, the trick will be how to do it best.  

New to this stuff, but I dove right in on this smoking thing and am trying a 50lbs hog in a 40" Masterbuilt Elite gas unit. Hey.... You do silly things for a brother's bachelor party! (Points for bravado...?) I know the hog won't fit whole, so I'll have to quarter it up or something. Any...