Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031.

jmcquown wrote:

On 11/10/2024 5:54 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-11-10 5:17 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
 

Yep, he posted a silly youtube link about people cooking
something in  a huge pit dug into the ground.  It had nothing to
do with the heat  retention of cast iron or any other type of pan.
 

 
I know that it is a way that Hawaiians sometimes cook pigs. I just
wonder how often they do it. I have been to pig roasts around here
where  they were cooked in special BBQs fashioned from old heating
oil tanks.  The pork was always wonderful. I know there are a few
people around with  the equipment to do it so I suppose I pretend
it is a  common mode of  cooking but the fact is that pig roasts
are few and far between. I have  not been to one on over 20 years.
 
 

The thing is, David acts like Hawaiians cook this way every day.  I'm
pretty darn sure they aren't all out tending a fire in a pit dug in
the ground every day in order to cook their food.  And it has nothing
to do with cast iron or other pans conduction of and retention of
heat. Typical misdirection.
 
Jill

He also insinuates mainlanders don't ever cook in the ground.  Ever
been to a clambake?  Couple of folks here do 'em pretty regular, south
towards Pungo area (near VA/NC border).  In the necks (brackish water
inlets) folks do a sort of pit steamer for crabs in season but most do
them above ground over a grill with coals under a thin steamer pot as
cleanup is easier.