The Quality And Versatility Of The Embers Hog Roaster & Hog Roast Trailer
To illustrate how good and versatile our roasters are here is something that we noticed at the annual Abergavenny Food Fair, run over two days - we went not as caterers but as we always do to this event as 'local visitors' just going to the fair to do some research, network and check out the latest new 'thing' in food and drink, a busman's holiday. Anyway, down one street all the vendors are out, and everyone in the crowd is hungry, it's now 1 o'clock, peak lunch time and a Hog Roast stall hasn't got anyone in front of it buying food, strange we thought, but after a quick chat with the guy running it he informs us that the pig isn't ready, he didn't get up early enough in the morning for his little red spit unit to cook it in time, (you know the one, it takes ages to cook anything) so he is making a loss as the early and main lunch time trade is now else where. Thinking, well if he had an Embers unit he would have cooked the pig in half the time, we left him to it . . . we go further down the street and this time there is another Hog Roast vendor with a queue outside his stall, and he is using the same little red unit as the first vendor, only it wasn't big enough, or sturdy enough, to cook a big pig, and it was certainly not big enough to do some extra joints as well, so he is running out of meat, and so once again we are watching as someone cannot maximise his locational potential or capatalise on the available market. So again we couldn't help thinking, if only he had one of our units, the last thing he would have had to worry about is cooking a big enough pig, or being able to fit in extra joints of meat.
As we carry on, around the corner, there is another hog roaster, this time he is using one of the big spit roast units, the one that boasts a lot in its adverts about being the best, the one that costs a lot of money, needs a noisy portable generator to turn it, but is actually, (because it is a fixed spit roast) only really a 'one trick pony', this is all it does, but fair enough the pig is ready, and it is a relatively big pig, about the same size we do, and it is looking impressive, but the vendor only has the same sized queue outside it as the guy with the little pig and the little red unit, and yet he has twice the staffing costs and pitch costs. It is obvious to someone who has an eye for this trade that there are even more Hog Roast stands a little further away, and later we see even more on a different part of the sprawling Abergavenny town site, the Fair was saturated with them, (as is the internet with web sites from companies offering only Hog Roasts) and so you know that each vendor is only going to take roughly what the other vendors are going to take doing a Hog Roast here, no matter what sized spit unit they had, or how much it cost, (at every event there is a natural saturation level, where people will not queue for long if they can get the same elsewhere, and if any one tells you different, they have little to no experience in this job).
So knowing this you need to be in a position to beat the odds, and realising the situation what we would have done here, with our Embers Hog Roast Trailer, would have been to roast a 'Pistol Of Beef' instead of a pig, with some joints of pork to complement and cover all angles; note the 'pistol' is the entire hind quarter of an Ox (a pistol of beef is every bit as big and as impressive as the largest roast pig, but heavier, and only our units can cook it, but it will do twice the servings with plenty of space for extra joints, and is a real crowd pleaser and showpiece: see the photos below).
The photos above show a roasted pistol of beef and Embers Hog Roast Trailer Units, minus their cover.
No one on the entire sight was cooking roast beef to any great extent or any real commercial viability, none had the versatility or size of unit to change from a Hog Roast to doing something different, something that would have stood out, something that would have pulled in the crowds who would have been on the look out for something a bit different and impressive to come back to as they moved around the fair earlier in the day, something unique that they would have taken the time to queue for. And slices of delicious tasting and smelling roast Ox, carved and served with horseradish in a bun ... (or in a baguette dipped and soaked in gravy, American Philly Steak style) would have been a great seller here, but no one was able to do this, the Hog Roasters were all competing with each other for the same market ... but we would have been able to, as well as do joints of roast pork to double up on the market by offering both, and so would anyone else who had bought one of our units. Even the smaller, 5' portable Embers Hog Roaster unit can roast a very large side of beef and extra joints of pork, as well as the more normal whole pig (up to 150lbs, and the larger 6' unit up to 200lbs) because it is so flexible, and this is the key to making money, not buying into the gimmicks and boasts of other agents and resellers of imported machines that only can do one thing.
With our reputation as caterers we get a lot of work for Hog Roasts, and we do them fantastically well with our years of experience and by using our own Hog Roasters, purpose built for the job, but on open shows, with a fickle paying public, in an uncertain market, we also cover a lot more ground than that with our units, and so we always beat the odds.
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Using our years of knowledge in this service sector we will help to keep you one step ahead of the rest, the Embers Hog Roast Trailer, individually engineered to your needs, can do a Whole Roast Pig (plus extra joints) or roast a Pistol Of Beef (plus extra joints) and it can even be changed so the whole unit turns into a commercial, high powered BBQ. And the Embers Hog Roaster, as a unit, is more portable, but yet no less capable when it comes to roasting the largest pigs and joints. What a caterer needs to make money is the flexibility to adjust to a wind change, before it comes, and not be left with a costly machine, bought on the promises of empty boasts, which, in the real world, leaves you with a headache and a missed opportunity.
What we provide at Embers is: Flexibility, with industrial design and strength (TM).
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