On Monday we catered for a Christmas party for a post office in Tetbury. As you would expect at this time of year post office’s are extremely busy and their employees will be stressed due to the amount of Christmas post. To help relieve some of this stress the boss had asked us to cook and serve a roast pig for their staff.
The weather was extremely cold and we honestly thought it was going to snow at one point but we just put our thick jackets on and stood a little bit closer to the hog roast machine as they provide quite a lot of warmth. The post office had asked us not to cook on site for the whole cooking period of six hours so we partly cooked the hog off site for four hours and then finished it on site for two hours when we got there.
The staff absolutely loved the hog roast and told us it was just what they needed to pick them up after a busy day, despite the cold everyone was in the best of spirits and asked us to join them in the pub afterwards, but unfortunately we had to get the machine cleaned and be on our way.
Cooking the pig in the manner that this customer requested is no problem for us, sometimes people only have access to their event venue for a certain amount of time and do not want to commit to having the pig cooking for the whole six hours. In instances such as this there a few things we can do; we can partly cook the pig off site and finish it on site (as we did here) or we could cook the whole pig off site and simply carve and serve it on site. Another option that people often ask us about is whether we can simply deliver a whole cooked pig and let them do all the serving, this is something we can absolutely do, we simply cook the pig and then bring it on a roasting tray to give to the customer.