Cajun microwave

Cajun microwave (plural Cajun microwaves)

1. (US) A metal-lined wooden box (or sometimes other container, even e.g. a pit) for cooking a pig or other food in, typically outdoors.
   • 1987, Progressive Farmer:

     Chicken barbecued in this “Cajun microwave” falls right off the bone.

   • 2002, Larry Boudreaux, Boudreaux's Cajun Party Guide, Boudreaux Cajun General Store, →ISBN, page 21:

     Buy, rent, or borrow the cooking pots, burners, and Cajun microwaves or Cajun tin cooking sheds. With the right cooking equipment the job will be a lot easier.

   • 2014, Ben Ford, Carolynn Carreño, Taming the Feast: Ben Ford's Field Guide to Adventurous Cooking, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     […] after the Cajun microwave or Caja China. The main difference between a Cajun microwave and a Caja China has to do with workmanship. [Commercial] Cajun microwaves are made of cypress or another hardwood, and are often decorated with carvings.

   • 2016, John Laudun, The Amazing Crawfish Boat, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:

     The term is applied rather widely, and it is not unusual to find someone digging a hole in the ground and lining it with sheet metal in order to cook a pig and calling the resulting fire pit a Cajun microwave. The Cajun microwave as built by Venable was a version of an old-fashioned Dutch oven, […]

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