Our first "mechoui"...

Mechoui is a way of cooking with fire. The principle is easy. Make a roaring fire, get enough coals to cook a lamb on the spit for 8 hours and then cut and eat the meat...
Easy in theory, a little more tricky to do.
First find a spit and fork spit. Managed to do that with a 8 foot steel rod from home depot, a couple of U clamps and eyed screws and a lot of ingenuity.
We got the lamb from the university herd and got it cleaned and prepared by the USU meat department guys for a small fee. 70 lbs was a little bigger than expected and I still doubt that it was a young lamb.

I left at 7am to joe's and Skyla's beautiful house and started the fire while fixing the lamb on the spit the best I could using wires and stuff.




10h30 am time to put the lamb in front of the fire.... note for next time, put it lower...
and start turning and turning and turning... for 8h (minus the 2 that I had to go back to the lab)
Every body made it to the big "pirate" party and while I was finishing trying to get the cuts for everybody before it got dark, the whole lamb got sliced as much as I could....

Definitely something to do again with some minor modifications. Using wood instead of charcoal, getting a smaller lamb and planning for longer cooking time. Lowering the spit and getting a motorized rotisserie.