Dukes Kitchen

04/05/2019

Over the moon that we have got another 5 rated food hygiene rating - the highest you can get.

29/03/2018

Dukes Kitchen and its sister company Premier Crew are pleased to introduce the latest edition to our events portfolio. Our new horse box is now available for hire and can be configured as a mobile bar, a wood-fired pizza station or both to suit your requirements. Our fully licensed bar options are supported by an extensive range of alcoholic and soft drinks including draft beers. It can also be set up as a specialist vodka, gin, cocktail or prosecco bar. If you fancy something different for your event, please contact us via facebook message or call us.

12/03/2018

This traditional Spanish dish makes a fantastic addition to any . Our chefs will cook a delicious from scratch, in front of your guests, using authentic paella ingredients. Our paella burners and pans are all specially imported from . We offer a choice of meat, chicken, fish and vegetarian paellas, or a mixture of your choice.

Ask us about our options too!

05/03/2018

Pizzas always go down well at any party or event, but how about making it even more interesting by adding a 'create your own pizza' option? Your guests choose the toppings they want and our chef will cook their pizzas to perfection, in under two minutes!

22/02/2018

16/10/2017

Book your summer 2018 with us by the end of November and get 2017 prices

12/10/2017

The nights are drawing in and we're beginning to dream of and with a nice juicy , or scrumptious ! If you are looking for something like this for a , or , please get in touch! Great rates for Great Dunmow residents. Call Barry on 01371 875892 or email [email protected]

23/07/2017

Another busy weekend with lots on....Just modelling our new DK chefs jackets during a wedding at the Reid Rooms in Essex.
With guests being treated to our Whole Hog Roll Option, they all had a great day with our catering services and staff being highly praised. 👍🐷👍

17/07/2017

We at Dukes Kitchen only use the best locally sourced and reared animals for our fantastic Hog Roasts. Book yours now at www.dukeskitchen.co.uk
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Pork
The Great Garnetts pig herd is extensively housed on beds of deep straw.
We are committed to stockmanship, welfare and animal husbandry of the highest standard.

We work hard to make sure that our animals are happy and comfortable, and we are thrilled that this year we have been awarded the Great Taste Award Gold Medal for our pork.

We use a local abattoir to make sure that our animals suffer as lilttle stress in transit as possible.

15/07/2017

Great few days at Dukes Kitchen and Premier Crew Hospitality with lots of happy customers. 👍😍👍

13/07/2017

Busy times at Dukes Kitchen with lots of Hogs going out this weekend....

HOG ROAST
A history of hog roasting

Medieval-Hog-RoastThe concept of the hog roast and the spit roasting method dates back thousands of years and is known by many names such as rotisserie, smoke jack and a thousand and one variations in the world’s languages.

From the lowly UK supermarket chicken rotisserie, through to donner kebabs – the spit roast style of cooking plays a strong role in modern British life, and has its roots in commonplace medieval cooking and far further back in history.

Dictionaries define spit roasting as “a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit – 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”, and thus it could be argued that the testosterone fueled environment of a sunday barbeque is a modern day interpretation of the spit roast.

For historical references one source of information is the Google Scholar tool which lists all spit roast referenced articles it holds in its extensive database. Our favourite article is a Roast Pig by Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834) with its evocative quote “O father, the pig, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats.”

History of Hog Roasting

Although the South Africans alongside the English claim the first usage of spit roasting as a common cooking tool, it is and has been commonplace for many centuries and will continue to be.