The DIY Kitchenaid-Powered, Bike Gear Enhanced, Lamb Rotisserie.

I'm a bit late in posting from the last Basque -- the theme was "baby Basque", in honor of the (soon-to-arrive) little one. Meanwhile, my colleague & oft-time co-conspirator, James Losey, joked that we should roast a baby lamb for our dish. Of course, this quickly got out of hand -- not only with the lamb itself, but also with the notion that this was a perfectly good excuse to build our own rotisserie.

As I was lamenting the fact that finding a good motorized spit was proving to be more difficult than first anticipated, my neighbor, James Grant, opined that I should just use my Kitchenaid. Needless to say, between the James's, the blueprint for the DIY Kitchenaid-Powered, Bike Gear Enhanced, Lamb Rotisserie was borne. This turned out to be a multi-beer problem -- one requiring a week's worth of napkin sketches, Lowes runs, and R&D, but the finished product worked amazingly well. The bike gears kept the strain on the Kitchenaid remarkably low (didn't even cause the Kitchenaid to heat up). And the finished product worked like a charm:

Video of the rotisserie in action is also available here.