If you want to make some great barbecue, skip the expensive outdoor grills and bulky smokers. Cook your meat the way that people all over the world have been doing it since prehistoric times. Just get a shovel and dig a pit.
Instructions
1. Dig a pit in the ground. For a small family barbecue, it should be about 3 feet on each side and 3-feet deep. If you're having people over, you'll need a wider pit, but not a deeper one. Making it deeper makes the pit more difficult--and dangerous--to work with.
2. Find something to cover the pit. A sheet of plywood or a metal plate works well, and may already be sitting around in the garage or back yard.
3. Fill the pit with wood chips or charcoal and start the fire. It will take at least a couple of hours to get a good bed of coals, adding more fuel as it burns down, until you have a depth of at least 2 feet.
4. Spread the coals evenly and put something on top to hold the meat. You can use branches of green wood arranged in a lattice pattern, fire bricks, a metal pan or a grill.
5. Wrap your meat in unwaxed butcher paper and then in wet newspaper. Set it inside the pit. Cover the meat and roast it for 16 to 20 hours.
6. Uncover the pit, take out the meat, unwrap it and serve.
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