Pitmaster's Choice

"When he's not turnin' those ronto shanks 'round the clock, 8D-J8 is busy addin' other meaty snacks to the menu, includin' this a jerky made from the thin bands of meat hung around his roastin' pit."

- Strono Tuggs

Pitmaster's Choice was a type of jerky made by the former smelter droid 8D-J8, who worked as the pitmaster in the Ronto Roasters eatery in Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu. When not roasting ronto shanks over the establishment's converted podracer engine roasting pit, the droid used the thin strips of meat hanging around the pit to make Pitmaster's Choice, meaning it could contain a variety of meats including nuna turkey or luggabeast meat.

At some point following the Battle of Takodana in 34 ABY, the Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs included a recipe for Pitmaster's Choice in his cookbook, The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook. In the book, he lamented that most people did not have their own converted podracer engine to authentically cook the dish on, but claimed his recipe would keep them satisfied between trips to Ronto Roasters.

Behind the scenes
Pitmaster's Choice was created as one of the recipes included in the 2019 cookbook Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, which was written by Marc Sumerak and Chelsea Monroe-Cassel.

The out-of-universe recipe for the dish requires a pound of ground pork, a tablespoon of dark soy sauce, half a teaspoon of sesame oil, half a cup of sugar, a pinch of salt and a pinch of five-spice powder. The recipe has the reader mix all the ingredients together and then refrigerate them for eight hours before spreading the mix out over a baking sheet and cooking for half an hour, flipping it half way through. The mixture should then be cut into squares and broiled for a few minutes on each side.