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Is that charcoal shoved into the vertical rotisserie? It doesn’t look like electric or gas.
Wood, maybe? I know little about cooking and even less about shawarma, but I know some chefs prefer particular kinds of wood for the flavoring it imparts to food cooked by direct heat.
Looks like wood. Also I saw this no commentary video of a shawarma restaurant a while back, if you skip to 8:38 you can see the cooker looks similar to this pic and they're using wood.
Well and also gas for ignition. But mostly wood!
Omg you're right! Is there some while other aspect of shawarma that we've been mowing in the modern world?!