We have had another busy week this week at Chef and Griddle. The office has been full of enquiries ready for the summer weddings. We have also taken a lot of bookings for the next few months, an example would be a machine hire for the 1st of February. We also had a last minute booking yesterday afternoon for a classic hog roast for today, we quickly checked with our suppliers and they told us it was no problem to have a pig on such short notice. The hog roast Folkestone went as excellently smooth as all of our events, the classic hog roast is a standard hog roast consisting of a whole spit roasted pig with all the lovely crackling that it provides. This is then served into bread rolls and served with apple sauce and stuffing for a fantastic meal. We arrived onsite six hours before the serve time as the hog roast was for 80 people which requires a 50 – 60 kilo pig and we say that for every 10 kilos an extra hour of cooking time is added.
As the pig was slowly turning and cooking for the whole six hours the smell of the roasting meat was given chance to permeate the venue thankfully we were cooking indoors as it looked like it was threatening to snow all evening and the wind was bitterly cold.
A lot of people enquiring about our services do not realise we can roast indoors but in fact it is not as big a deal as people make it out to be. Our machines are all sealed units which run off gas not coal which produces a cleaner heat without all the smoke, they are all also gas safety certified to show that they do not leak or produce any harmful fumes. In the slightly more confined space the roasting smell was very strong and everyone in attendance was saying how amazing the smell and our catering setup was. The client thanked us heartily as we left because the event was a corporate party hog roast which had to be organised on short notice and that without it their client probably would have ended up eating sandwiches and a bag of crisps.