Spitting Pig is the largest provider of spit roasting equipment in the UK.

Founded in 1986.Spitting Pig quickly become the UK's number one Provider of spit and hog roast catering.

Stephen Marsden,MD,has built the reputation of Spitting Pig on consistent reliable service and over the 20 years has perfected the best catering equipment and methods. Spitting Pig Equipment Ltd is now offering this to people wanting to profit from their own successful business. Our equipment is built in-house to the highest standard using the finest materials and latest manufacturing techniques, enabling us to guarantee you a first rate product and a responsive maintenance service.

"On my journey,I have learned a great deal about the importance of service.A good event leads to a recommendation but a great event leads to many more. Attention to detail is critical: Consider the difference between how turning up professionally in named chef whites looks, rather than appearing in a dirty shirt and shorts. I believe the package is not only about the equipment, but also about providing a helping hand to our partners, sharing the wealth of kowledge gained through my long standing experience in the catering industry."

The Spitting Pigs illustrious machine manufacturing journey began over twenty years ago. With Stephen and Adam at the helm, the boys initially began by modifying existing machines. These hog roast machines were built around an Australian design and were effective in their desired arena, that of outdoor and indoor mobile hog roast and spit roast catering. However, due to Steve and Adam’s extensive experience of re-fitting obsolete trucks and thus making them roadworthy, the men set to work improving, modifying and re-modelling the machines. Equipped with saws and power-tools, it wasn’t long before the machines had effectively become different entities from the objects which they started life as. Approaching each and every problem with a positive attitude, the many design failings found within the original machines from Australia were ironed out. This resulted in the Spitting Pig Company becoming very popular, very quickly indeed.

Back then, the founders of the Spitting Pig Company lived a life of freedom and fun, not often seen today with many of us working long hours for most days of the week. At the start, Adam and Steve would do catering jobs at functions and parties and earn enough money to go surfing in Cornwall or Devon. Using their own adapted machines at the events which they catered for, not only were people fast becoming hooked on the taste of beautifully cooked, slow roasted meat, but also highly intrigued by the lightweight, powerful and hugely capable machines that the guys were using. Through this scenario of catering and self advertisement of the machines, the interest in the mobile roasting units quickly manifested itself as orders coming in on behalf of customers wishing to become owners of the machines themselves. Utilising the skills of local engineers for a time, the men started to sell more and more machines.

Through this, investment was put back in to the development of the machines themselves. This scenario continues today just as it did 20 years ago. Soon after the first major orders had been serviced, it became apparent that manufacture was best done by us instead of contracting out to others. This way we could control every aspect of the process, from design to manufacture. Believing wholeheartedly in sound engineering, along with having a huge respect for Britain’s history as a leader of design and engineering innovation, our own manufacturing facility allowed us to implement immediate changes in the design of our machines as different catering scenarios presented themselves out in the world of catering at functions.

This symbiotic process of design and manufacture has made us what we are today. Undoubtedly the leaders in our field, it is no arrogant boast that we lead the field by an extensive margin. It is the opinion of our clients and it is through the dedication, passion and perfection that we continually strive for.

Now a large team, we still remember our company’s relatively humble beginnings. However, it is now as it was then; that when you combine energy and enthusiasm in the design and manufacturing process, coupled with an insistence to get every detail right, there is little that can prevent the success of both yourself and your customers.