Our latest equipment hire venture is up and running.
The new website is hotcupboardhire.co.uk.
This site focuses on hotcupboards, bain-maries and holding cupboards (banqueting carts to some). We started with just a few of these but after preparing for a few large events last year we now have dozens - all recent models from brands like Williams, Alto Shaam and Lincat.
Our diy-hog-roast.co.uk website just received a well-deserved facelift.
This is the latest of our Hog Roast websites to benefit from a new look ... better organised, simpler options and a tidier appearance. This one is a variaiton of our hog-roast.com design, which we updated in 2012 .. The update last year for hog-roast.com was the first major appearance change for our original website which launched soon after we started providing Hog Roasts in 1999.
The summer event season is on the horizon once again and the Christian Faversham Group (of which the Hog Blog is a part) is looking for reliable staff to assist us during the busy summer of 2013.
For a list of vacancies - mostly near Liphook in Hampshire - please visit our parent company on the Christian Faversham Group website.
If you think you qualify for any of these please complete an online job application.
We have some great mobile catering vehicles for the Fish and Chip catering side of our operations.
So what happens if we need to use our fryers indoors without a purpose-built kitchen area .... for instance at a conference venue? Well - where there's a will there's a way... here are pictures from a recent job at the Hilton Conference Centre in Brighton.
Everyone a little tired after we helped feed 1600 hungry students for a university in Milton Keynes. Luckily the hire side of our company has all the latest gear for this kind of job.
We were able to provide install a complete temporary kitchen with fitted sinks, pass-through dishwashers, stainless steel tabling, Williams holding cupboards, 10 rack LPG and 415v Combination Steam ovens (pictured below). All this required an onsite engineer, even LPG gas cages for all the gas bottles.
Very successful job - Everyone was well fed!
Over my many years of catering, 
I have had the privilege of witnessing grand events while providing the service of equally remarkable food for those attending. This is one reason why every year I look forward to the annual bonfire weekend and this year may have been the best private firework performance I have seen yet.
Yesterday I picked up a Blue Seal E32 turbo steam oven off Ebay. Dave was a Kiwi who had just closed down his bakers business. We took the job lot; turbo steam oven, stainless steel table, electronic scales, various size mixing bowls and a whole host of baking tins Dave had imported from Williams-Sonoma in the USA. Elizabeth is in our development kitchen this year and she is keen to make as much as we can from original recipes or home grown produce.
Elizabeth purchased a copy of The Fabulous Baker Brothers last week so it seemed sensible to find her a decent steam oven. The oven was almost like new. When I got back Elizabeth had already made some dough and proved it so she set about cutting the dough, neading it and snipping bits with scissors prior to putting it in the E32 new steam oven. The bread was baked, cooled on racks and we tucked in, simply delicious !
We were invited by the directors of “The Lakes” in Lechlade Gloucestershire to Roast and serve a selection of Hogs for their prestigious “Lakestock Event” to celebrate the launch of their exclusive £1,000,000 plus second home property development aimed directly at the London social set.
This blog will be a place to read all about real world experiences catering Hog-Roast events around the UK.
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