Whole Suckling Pig in my ProQ Excel 20

[MadCityJim]

I ordered a 20 lb suckling pig from my butcher. I stuffed it with pineapple, onions, peppers, garlic, ginger, and some fresh herbs. I filled the charcoal basket 2/3 full and lit 2 chimneys full of charcoal and dumped them in.

I had run a SS wire through the pig from the mouth to a hook in the butt end before stuffing. I used that hook to hang the pig from the bar in the lid of the smoker.

(add to wine to the drip pan so I can make gravy with the drippings)

Once I got the unit together and the pig inside, the temperature ran between 250 and 275 (seemed to depend on the sun and wind). When I checked at 5hrs 15mins, the temp in the deepest parts of the pig was just over 170 so we took it out and decorated it so it could rest about 2 hours.

We even trimmed the head and the tail to garnish the serving platter!

 

[SmokeJumper]

Nice! That looks tasty. Thanks for the great pics and writeup.

 

[BlkJeep]

That's awesome!! I guess I'll ask, How'd it taste? :heh:

 

[MadCityJim]

It tasted awesome! It was really easy too. Just need to plan it out. It's a lot easier than ribs. And its way way impressive!

 

[NorthwestBBQ]

Amazing pics and pig, Jim!

 

[noskos]

That looks great! Nice idea to hang it in the smoker that way!

 

[jgh1204]

This picture cracks me up. Reminds me of an old water park in San Marcos that had a diving pig show.

 

[FamilyManBBQ]

Very Cool!!

 

[Chef Jim]

Yummy, looks like you had fun!

 

[LT72884]

LOL, your kid/possibly grandkid(dont hurt me) has an awesome look of "OMG, wtf are you doing to the pig" haha. That looks awesome. Why is there two boards in-between the lid and the base?

thanx

 

[SmokinAussie]

Poor little piggy.... Bwaaaaa Haaa Haaaaaa.

I bet he was deeeelicious!

 

[Phubar]

Excellent!!!

 

[wildflower]

I must have missed the invitation I know you would have invited me :thumb: It looks great :clap2: I need to go check my mail box :doh:

 

[MattTee]

Awesome pig! I've been building up the guts to do one soon, your pics are inspiring.

 

[bottomsupbbq]

Very Nice!

 

[Derek]

I really like your idea to do a whole pig like this...

Your pig turned out good, and good looking pron!

By the way Did you loose any smoke when you had the lid up on wooden blocks?

And I thought fords were the only thing that gets put up on wooden block's

I'm getting in trouble for that one hehe.

 

[cmcadams]

Extremely cool!

 

[MadCityJim]

I popped those wood blocks in there so I could get the temp of the "hams" up high in the dome. I was able to get the front shoulder and belly temps through the doors. I had only intended for them to be in there a minute or two, but all the temps I took were above my target temp of 170 so I left them in there while I got the crew together to get the little piggy out.

 

[Mad Max]

Those are some of the best piggy pics, ever. Good Job.

 

[BluesDaddy]

Very nice. Motivates one to aspire to something greater!! :clap2: