So this Saturday we threw a big party for my wife's birthday and did an 80lb whole hog. They brined it for me and butterflyed it. I bought my cooker online at www.shoplatintouch.com and it cost $199 plus like $50 fedex shipping.
I seasoned with Slap Yo Daddy Hot rub (my personal favorite) and injected with apple juice and rub mixture. The cool thing about this cooker is it cooks really fast. Whole hog came up to temperature in about 5.5 hours. The downside is that it used tons of charcoal. I went through 4 18lb bags. It rained during the cooking for like 20 minutes in a crazy flood like downpour and the thing kept on cooking like nothing even happened... pretty amazing. I wouldn't use this cooker though for regular bbq because the charcoal goes on top of the unit and you have to buy a separate smoking unit to get smoke into the cooking chamber. The reason I liked it was of the time to cook... picked up the pig at 11:30am, had it on the cooker at 12:30pm, and served it to the party at 6:30pm. Everyone thought it was the coolest thing. Flavor wise they loved it. I'm a bit of a BBQ snob and I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of the flavor. The pig itself had a gamey flavor, but it was SUPER tender. The crowd loved it though. We had about 40-50 people there and they ate that baby bone clean.
Here are a couple of picks.
I seasoned with Slap Yo Daddy Hot rub (my personal favorite) and injected with apple juice and rub mixture. The cool thing about this cooker is it cooks really fast. Whole hog came up to temperature in about 5.5 hours. The downside is that it used tons of charcoal. I went through 4 18lb bags. It rained during the cooking for like 20 minutes in a crazy flood like downpour and the thing kept on cooking like nothing even happened... pretty amazing. I wouldn't use this cooker though for regular bbq because the charcoal goes on top of the unit and you have to buy a separate smoking unit to get smoke into the cooking chamber. The reason I liked it was of the time to cook... picked up the pig at 11:30am, had it on the cooker at 12:30pm, and served it to the party at 6:30pm. Everyone thought it was the coolest thing. Flavor wise they loved it. I'm a bit of a BBQ snob and I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of the flavor. The pig itself had a gamey flavor, but it was SUPER tender. The crowd loved it though. We had about 40-50 people there and they ate that baby bone clean.
Here are a couple of picks.
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