Meadow Creek PR60GT Pig Cooker Story
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
We just returned from a vacation up north, visiting family and friends. Part of our trip included a family reunion on my wife’s side in upstate New York. We borrowed a friend’s Meadow Creek PR60GT Pig Roaster and I cooked 5 pork butts, 4 chickens, and 2 slabs of baby back ribs.
The event was on Tuesday and I cooked on Monday because I didn’t want to cook all through the night or deal with meat in the morning while I could be relaxing with family. It was rainy the day I cooked, so we put up a tent with one side panel to block the breeze, and it worked very nicely.
My friend who owns the pig roaster ordered it custom without a drip pan or a stainless steel grate. Instead he has a pan with a slanted bottom, and he uses it mostly for whole pigs. I didn’t want to fry the meat, so we laid it on several oven racks inside the pan. He doesn’t have a chip tray, so I filled foil pouches with wood chips and chunks to make my smoke. The pouches worked okay once I figured out how to make it work, but it’s not the ideal way to make smoke in a Meadow Creek Pig Roaster! However, it was a fun challenge and I enjoyed cooking another batch of outrageous barbecue.
We just returned from a vacation up north, visiting family and friends. Part of our trip included a family reunion on my wife’s side in upstate New York. We borrowed a friend’s Meadow Creek PR60GT Pig Roaster and I cooked 5 pork butts, 4 chickens, and 2 slabs of baby back ribs.
The event was on Tuesday and I cooked on Monday because I didn’t want to cook all through the night or deal with meat in the morning while I could be relaxing with family. It was rainy the day I cooked, so we put up a tent with one side panel to block the breeze, and it worked very nicely.
My friend who owns the pig roaster ordered it custom without a drip pan or a stainless steel grate. Instead he has a pan with a slanted bottom, and he uses it mostly for whole pigs. I didn’t want to fry the meat, so we laid it on several oven racks inside the pan. He doesn’t have a chip tray, so I filled foil pouches with wood chips and chunks to make my smoke. The pouches worked okay once I figured out how to make it work, but it’s not the ideal way to make smoke in a Meadow Creek Pig Roaster! However, it was a fun challenge and I enjoyed cooking another batch of outrageous barbecue.
