Embers Catering Equipment
We believe we are the market leaders when it comes to hog roasts and bespoke hog roast machines in the UK, no one has been doing it for as long as we have, and no one has built more bespoke engineered, industrial strength, commercial hog roasters in the UK, or have done so for as long as we have. Not only that our work alongside many food historians and the research we put into continually striving for the best roasting methods means our machines have seen decades of service, with regular service intervals, (which we are happy to do) and our roasting methods have become standard within the industry for doing the largest animals, including whole Ox roasts. We also specialise in bespoke engineered catering vans and trailers, you can see many exmples of the work we have done, on large and small vans and trailers for all types of specialist catering and kitchen needs. We have customers in all regions of the UK using our manufactured hog roasters (from Embers) and we have catered in nearly every part of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (as Apex). Our company prides itself on the standard and quality of the catering we do and the level of services we provide. After 30 years we know the meaning of client satisfaction, and that is why all of your individual requirements can be easily catered for by looking through our extensive menu. Our Equipment is fully mobile, giving us the ability to set up full marquee field kitchens for High Class Hospitality and Location Catering contracts. Our Mobile Kitchens and Lorries provide fast Very High Class Catering - sometimes needing to be at a different venue each day for Travelling Road Shows, Demonstrations etc.
Hog Roasting And It's History.
© Copyright 2009 Apex Hog Roast: Having had many years in the business we have always strived to improve our methods, and therefore we have researched the ways of cooking a pig or ox, right back to when food historians trace this as starting. We know that roasting meat over an open fire is the oldest method of cooking known to man. And even now there is something unique about the sights and aromas of a whole animal slow roasting over a fire, something that people can’t help but enjoy. And Man has eaten pork since man and pig existed together. How long ago man started roasting pig we can only guess. Picture this: Man, hunter-gatherer, trekking through a fresh burnt out forest comes across a pig caught up and cooked in the fire. Food, always uppermost in his mind, he pulls apart the cooked meat. His senses reeling as he inhales and his lips and tongue touches and tastes the first Roast Pork. The crisp skin, the heady aroma, the taste. This was truly a whole new experience. Never again would he choose raw meat unless out of necessity. From then on he roasted his meat either by just putting the whole animal on top of a fire or roughly cutting it up with his Flint Tool. As he or probably she advanced in technique, the raw meat would have been cut up and skewered on green stakes and placed above the fire. As the world progressed and man spread out from Africa so the methods of cooking pig became as diversified as man himself.
The Far East and the Pacific Islands as well as the Americas tended to cook pigs using the Pit method, initially utilizing a natural depression in the ground, filled with fire and added stones. When the stones were really hot and the fire had died down, the pig wrapped in banana leaves etc was lowered in and covered over with earth. Left for the necessary time the pig would be cooked and due to the leaf wrapping the pork would still be moist. Everyone else tended to Spit Roast using green twig spits over open fires although in Great Britain, there is evidence of stone troughs into which hot stones were placed to boil water and thereby boiling the meat. As civilization spread and eating became a ceremony so the roasting of a whole pig became necessary to give a display of abundance, affluence and generosity. Cooking methods ranged from Spit Roasting to Oven Roasting and continued up to early 20th century. But as the large banquets became fewer, Whole Hog Roasting remained a showpiece of the village party or a money making event at a Young Farmers / Agricultural Show, usually carried out by roasting the pig over an open pit fire. Sometimes a purpose built roasting tray was made - again for use over an open fire - or the bread oven of a local baker could be put to extra use. In the late 1970's, purpose built hog roasting units became available for party or show use. Which is when the history of Apex Catering and Embers Catering Equipment begins ...
Apex Catering: Our Hog Roast
Our Main Locations & Areas of Catering Are In Cardiff, Newport, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham & London
Apex Hog Roast - One thing is for certain, our Premier Hog or Ox Roast is as spectacular as it is practical. Chosing a whole pig or whole ox to display and carve before your guests is an ideal party piece, providing a unique spectacle and a focal point, while also serving up a delicious and filling meal, and one of the best tasting. No one in the UK has more EXPERIENCE in Hog and Ox Roasting than us, no one sources their pigs, beef and produce as locally as we do, and no one else cooks their hog or ox in their own designed and individually bespoke commercial ROASTERS, making sure quality comes first, every time. Based in Cardiff, South Wales and Gloucester, Southern England, whatever the occasion, whatever the budget, you can trust us to deliver your event showpiece. LATEST NEWS. Apex Catering - The Professional Caterers in wedding, corporate, bufets, medieval and party catering for over thirty years in South Wales and Southern England. From fine dining to Hog Roasts and BBQ's to historically acurate and authentic Medieval Banquets and Feasts, the aim of Apex is to offer a high quality catering service, and to use fresh, good quality 'in season' local produce. Much of the salad, herbs and vegetable crops we grow ourselves on our market garden farm WWW.OAKDEN.CO.UK and we source meats very locally from small-holder farms known to us.
For Wedding, Corporate, Party, Medieval & Event Themed Caterers
Although we provide menus and prices for each category on our website these menus are generally taken as a guide - we rarely cater for events with an identical menu. Our approach is to work with our clients, to give a flexibility and choice for creating a menu that is truly the client's own. We are fully equipped with the latest commercial mobile catering equipment; meaning we are able to prepare and serve whatever you require, wherever your venue is located, from a castle to the local village hall. Over the years we have built good relationships with some of the best wedding venues in South Wales and SW England - including Duffryn Gardens, Treowen House, Caerphilly Castle, Usk Castle, Abergavenny Priory etc. We would be pleased to recieve a call from you to discuss any aspect of catering for your event, our event managers can put together a whole theme, including marquees, entertainments, drinks and all aspects of hire. APEX CATERING..
Weddings - Corporate Days - Parties - Film & T.V. - Themed & Medieval Work
"I would just like to thank you and your team for the beautiful Hog Roast you did for our wedding, everyone commented on how lovely it all looked and tasted and we cannot thank you enough, you helped to make our day really special, and we shall be recommending you to all we know. Thanks very very much, Penny And Phil, August 2008.
The Quality Of Our Meat And Produce
The aim of Apex is simple: to provide fresh 'in season' local produce whenever possible. We grow much of the salad, herbs and vegetable crops ourselves on our own MARKET GARDEN FARM and our pigs and beef are sourced very locally, (by small-holder farms all known to us) reared to exacting standards, with excellent wellfare conditions, before being butchered locally. The pigs we use for all our hog roasts are the best of British breed pigs, including Gloucester Old Spot, Saddleback, Tamworth and Berkshire. Your guests will certainly taste the difference with us.
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We are currently covering the following areas:
Hog Roast Glamorgan Cardiff Swansea Merthyr Tydfil Barry Caerphilly Bridgend Neath, Pontypridd
Hog Roast Monmouthshire Monmouth Newport Blackwood Cwmbran Abergavenny Chepstow Tredegar
Hog Roast Gloucester Bristol Cheltenham Stroud Cirencester TewkesburyAust Badminton Bath Bradley Stoke Brislington
Hog Roast Clevedon Clifton Cotham Farmborough Farrington Gurney Fishponds Hawkesbury Upton Keynsham
Hog Roast Bristol Chelwood Chew Magna Long Ashton Radstock Rangeworth Shirehampton Sidcot Thornbury
Hog Roast Timsbury Weston-super-Mare Winscombe Yate Yatton
Hog Roast Herefordshire Hereford Ross-on-Wye Leominster Ledbury Bromyard KingtonBadsey Bewdley Blakedown
Hog Roast Malvern Wells, Nr Kidderminster, Park Farm North, Redditch, Ross On Wye, Stourport on Severn, Upton upon Severn, West Malvern, Worcester
Hog Roast Oxfordshire Oxford Banbury Witney Bicester Henley-on-Thames Carterton Thame
Hog Roast Hastings Hereford Leicester Lincoln London Luton Margate Morecambe Newport
Hog Roast Carmarthenshire Carmarthen, Llanelli, Ammanford, Llandovery, Kidwelly, St Clears
Hog Roast Nottingham Oxford Surrey West Glamorgan West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire Worcesters Ashford
Hog Roast Aylesbury Bangor Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Birkenhead Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol
Hog Roast Bury Hog Roast Cambridge Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshunt Chester Coventry
Hog Roast Dartford Plymouth Poole Reading Rhondda Rugby Shrewsbury
Hog Roast Devon Exeter Plymouth Torquay Paignton Barnstaple Tiverton Newton Abbot Tavistock
Hog Roast Pembrokeshire Pembroke Milford Haven Haverfordwest Fishguard Tenby St David's
Hog Roast St Albans Stevenage Swansea Watford Worcester Norfolk
Hog Roast Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Powys Somerset South Glamorgan Suffolk
Hog Roast Eastbourne Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Central
Hog Roast Cheshire Clwyd Cornwall Cumbria Devon Dorset Durham
Hog Roast Dyfed East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Gwent Gwynedd
Hog Roast Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leicestershire Mid Glamorgan Exeter
Hog Roast Aldershot Gateshead Gloucester Gravesend Guildford Halifax
About Us: Apex Hog Roast Based In Cardiff, South Wales And Gloucester, SW England
Hog roasts and Medieval Hog Roasts have been a favourite way of catering for large parties or events for a very long time, and we have been at it longer than anyone else in the UK, actually from the late 1970's. It is still a great option for parties, corporate events, weddings and locational work because in many ways it is a lot less formal than many other catering techniques, and it is comparatively inexpensive, regarding what you are actually obtaining. Yet in our business it is still all about quality, and service; to make your event an informal, yet stylish way of dining at the same time. Therefore we always use the best pigs and local produce, our own high quality equipment, and comply with all of the strictest Food & Hygiene Regulations. Over the years we quickly realised that the main criteria for working with so many clients is the ability to be reliable, be properly equipped and to be fully insured. This means that you recognise as clients that you are dealing with a fully insured and recognised family business which takes catering seriously - this is why we are proud to have had so many repeat customers and be proud in our ability to win new clients by word of mouth.
We think a pig roast is perfect for entertaining your guests, as well as feeding them; there is nothing quite like seeing the spectacle of a pig roast, a medieval hog roast or its tantalizing aroma. We pride ourselves on our first-class catering service, and also on our high quality, versatile hog roasters, (which can be built to any specification - even to do the much larger and heavier 'pistol of beef' roast). We are always on hand 5 days a week to provide you with advice over the phone, or in a one-to-one meeting, to assist you with all your queries and event requests. If you are looking for a professional hog or ox roaster company, with the longest service and experience record in the UK, one that provides high quality and specialist roasting equipment, with a dedicated staff, using local ingredients, (with much of the food from our very own market garden farm) then you have come to right place. In terms of research and authenticity, HISTORICAL FOODS have helped us in designing our Medieval menus such as our Medieval Hog Roast.
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