Campfire Spit Cooking, How Its Done?

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We have probably all done it, placing a hotdog or a marshmallow on the end of a stick and holding it above the campfire. And in fact campfire spit cooking is nothing more of less than exactly that holding food at the right distance above a campfire.

Campfire spit cooking is a very old kind of cooking, in the time of the caveman they already made two A shape forms from two sticks and a third stick was hang in between over the top.

In early modern kitchens and in medieval times spits where used for cooking large joints of meat or entire animals such as pigs, turkeys, goats or historically, entire cattle. With campfire spit cooking the spit is a long solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a campfire or over a fireplace. There were even servants that where called spit boy or spit jack that were assigned to turn the spit around. More mechanical means were later invented, first moved by dog-powered treadmill, and then by steam power and mechanical clockwork mechanisms.

Campfire spit cooking and spit roasting was used to prepare large pieces of lamb, pork, beef and poultry, by rotating the meat over the campfire heat it is constantly bathed in its own juices and get done at all sides after some time. To collect the drippings of the meat it is possible to use a drip pan in campfire spit cooking, the juices can be used to make gravy.

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