Comments on: Any Tips On Cooking Underground?

By: sallyvis

sallyvis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:57:57 +0000

This site I found has quite a bit of information and pictures. It looks like they are also using river rock. I wouldn’t worry about the rocks exploding. You’d have to heat them pretty quickly to get them to break from steam escaping.http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/pit.html

By: zee_prim

zee_prim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:38:59 +0000

Almost any rocks are OK except greywacke, which tends to explode when hot. Greywacke is the grey sedimentary stones you find in river beds. Some people shovel out the embers when the rocks are hot before putting the food, but I don’t bother. It just gives the stones a chance to cool down. Leaving the embers in the hole doesn’t taint the food. Just wrap the pig in wet sacks and you should be right. If it’s a large adult pig put some hot stones inside the body cavity, but if it’s a piglet fill the cavity with sage and onion stuffing. Cook the accompanying vegetables with the pig. Remember they’ll be mushy so put them in a metal pot with a lid.

By: hanfordb

hanfordb — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:00:58 +0000

I’ve heard that heavy clay soils hold in the heat much better than loose, sandy topsoils. Clay soils are rumoured to make for a moister piggie!
Whatever you find out, make sure to save me a plate!

By: siaosi

siaosi — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:58:21 +0000

Those river rocks will be okay.Make sure the rocks are really hot before using.Season the meat well first

By: knowital

knowital — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:00:12 +0000

Use tea leaves to rap up he pig,then add hot lava rocks,place on top of leaves,and cover with ground .