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A spit is a long solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a fireplace or over a campfire, or roasted in an oven. Spits are generally used for cooking large joints of meat or entire animals such as pigs, turkeys, goats or historically, entire cattle. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A vertical rotisserie cooking kebab Spit Roast redirects here. ... Winter (fireplace), tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century) A fireplace is an architectural element consisting of a space designed to contain a fire, generally for heating but sometimes also for cooking. ... Cooking in the outdoors using heated stone Campfires can be used for cooking food by a number of techniques. ... Oven depicted in a painting by Millet An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Species See Species and subspecies The goat is a mammal in the genus Capra, which consists of nine species: the Ibex, the West Caucasian Tur, the East Caucasian Tur, the Markhor, and the Wild Goat. ... cow and ox, see Cow (disambiguation) and Ox (disambiguation). ...
In medieval and early modern kitchens, the spit was the preferred way of cooking meat in a large household. A servant, preferably a boy, sat near the spit turning the metal rod slowly and cooking the food (and himself to some extent); he was known as the "spit boy" or "spit jack". More mechanical means were later invented, first moved by dog-powered treadmill then later mechanical clockwork mechanisms. A kitchen is a room used for food preparation and sometimes entertainment. ... A woman on a treadmill. ...
In caveman times, spits were also used. They stuck poles in the ground, in a sort of A shape, and then hang another pole in between them. They stuck the food on the in between pole, and gradually turned it over a fire.
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