pig roast?

Well my kiln certainly smells of glaze, there is a nasty sort of smell that kilns always get. Plus you wouln't want any fragments of ceramic fibre or bits of broken ware getting into food. I would not recommend it. Here in NZ you can hire big gas fired roasters. Friends did this to do a sheep once. Quite cool. Others did a sheep in a pit. They dug a big hole and burned wood in it to make good embers and then had the sheep turning above the embers. I think that they had a fire going beside it to keep adding more good embers as needed. The other disadvantage with doing it in the kiln, other than health risks. It would likely coat the kiln with greasy yukkiness. Good luck :o)

i figure the kiln is still pretty new & clean, and the fats would burn out in the next bisque or glaze fire.

it's basically pretty steril after a good fire...

see ya

steve

Actually, it is not sterile after a glaze fire, it is full of volatilized molecules of whatever you put in your glazes. They might like to migrate to your food - I don't know. That is at least the argument we were told when we were (in students days) thinking of pizza in the kiln fundraiser. However, if the kiln is new.... Andrea PS Sorry Steve for replying directly, I've pressed the wrong button

bullseye glass uses their kilns for cooking, but they don't do glazing in them, of course.