Yesterday I hot smoked my latest batch of Candian bacon. (Sorry, no pictures.) I'd bought two full pork loins and cut each into three roughly equal pieces. Dry cured them for about two weeks, then cold smoked them for about six hours, finishing with the hot smoke a couple days later.
Chris posted a video yesterday about expanding the WSM capacity and mentioned having trouble after using a rib rack to hold some spatchcocked chickens. The chickens fit into the rack fine when raw but the meat tightened up when cooked and was nearly impossible to get out of the rack. In a rather odd coincidence in timing, before watching the video I used a rib rack to hold three of the pieces of pork loin. They fit fine before cooking, but it was impossible to get them out of the rack without mangling them when they were done. (Kudos to my Zenware rib rack for being far too well made from me to pry the bars apart to slide the pork loins out.)
So I now have about 12 pounds of Canadian bacon in the refrigerator waiting for the smoke to fully penetrate and be ready to eat. I should probably get started on the next batch so I don't have to wait so long after this batch runs out.
Chris posted a video yesterday about expanding the WSM capacity and mentioned having trouble after using a rib rack to hold some spatchcocked chickens. The chickens fit into the rack fine when raw but the meat tightened up when cooked and was nearly impossible to get out of the rack. In a rather odd coincidence in timing, before watching the video I used a rib rack to hold three of the pieces of pork loin. They fit fine before cooking, but it was impossible to get them out of the rack without mangling them when they were done. (Kudos to my Zenware rib rack for being far too well made from me to pry the bars apart to slide the pork loins out.)
So I now have about 12 pounds of Canadian bacon in the refrigerator waiting for the smoke to fully penetrate and be ready to eat. I should probably get started on the next batch so I don't have to wait so long after this batch runs out.