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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: Old Dave on June 07, 2013, 03:53:32 AM

Title: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Old Dave on June 07, 2013, 03:53:32 AM
I started with a 4.78 pound chub of all beef bologna for this treat.

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Next step was to remove all the wrappers.

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I then quartered the chub to increase my surface area for the smoke.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/OldDave/Pellet%20Cookers/DSC01790.jpg)

I scored the surface area and added some SGH rub and it was ready to go on the cooker.

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I fired up the Green Mountain cooker and set the temp to 150 degrees as at this very low temp I can get some smoke without a bunch of heat. The bologna is ready to eat as it is and by smoking at a higher temp will only dry it out. Fwiw, it is really better to just smoke it like you do cheese using no heat at all. Anyway, I had some other items ready for the cooker so I added the bologna.

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I smoked the quarters about 100 minutes and pulled them off the cooker.

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I wrapped 3 of them for the freezer and sliced up one of the pieces into about 1/2” to 3/4” wide slices.

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Next step was to add a black iron griddle to the smoker and then some bacon.

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Did a couple of rounds of bacon for the sandwiches.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/OldDave/Pellet%20Cookers/DSC01798.jpg)

I then fried my bologna slices in the bacon grease for some additional flavor.

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I added a little mayo to my seeded bun and then some lettuce, a tomato slice, a couple slices of the bacon and about 3 of my slices of smoked and fried bologna.

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Just so simple but oh so good!!

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Served with a dill pickle spear and some of the pit beans off of this cook.
Title: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Scott6049 on June 07, 2013, 05:52:01 AM
What a great idea, looks very good, I will have to give it a try, thanks for the post;)
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: sliding_billy on June 07, 2013, 07:26:09 AM
Sounds really good.
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: TwoPockets on June 07, 2013, 08:07:52 AM
Oh man! Bacon and baloney....  natures perfect food.
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: smokeasaurus on June 07, 2013, 08:10:54 AM
Oh man! Bacon and baloney....  natures perfect food.

X2   a little spam included would have been off the charts..........
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: muebe on June 07, 2013, 08:50:22 AM
My cholesterol spiked just looking at that!

Looks great OD ;)
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: drholly on June 07, 2013, 08:57:39 AM
Oh man! Bacon and baloney....  natures perfect food.

X2   a little spam included would have been off the charts..........

You had to go to Spam...  ::) That WOULD have been "perfect".  ;)

But, even without the Spam, this is an excellent plate! Nice job, Dave!
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Sam3 on June 07, 2013, 09:39:09 AM
Looks great Dave!
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Pam Gould on June 07, 2013, 09:45:23 AM
In Ohio..we call that turf & turf.  Pam  ; *))
Title: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Pappymn on June 07, 2013, 10:14:42 AM
Boy that looks great OD!
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Hub on June 07, 2013, 10:20:51 AM
YUM  8)

My favorite fried boloney sandwich is made with fresh home-grown tomatoes and a thick slather of good mayo on plain ol' white bread.  If you make it right you'll have to eat it over the sink or wear a big bib, cause it'll decorate your shirt in a heartbeat!

Hub
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Tenpoint5 on June 07, 2013, 11:14:10 AM
Good looking sammich for sure. I am in the it needed SPAM to take it over the top group as well
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: deestafford on June 07, 2013, 06:30:14 PM
What a great meal....not only is it good to eat it's low calorie and low chlolesterol .  You can't beat that.  Dee
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: Keymaster on June 07, 2013, 07:45:25 PM
That's  a great looking sandwich and a big chub of Bologna :)
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: RAD on June 08, 2013, 07:52:46 AM
I'll take a plate of that  :P
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: TwoPockets on June 08, 2013, 08:53:39 AM
Oh man! Bacon and baloney....  natures perfect food.

X2   a little spam included would have been off the charts..........

You had to go to Spam...  ::) That WOULD have been "perfect".  ;)

But, even without the Spam, this is an excellent plate! Nice job, Dave!

I sometimes throuw a block of Spam in the smoker when I am doing ribs. My wife thinks it is gross but talk about a good sammie with lot's of mayo, cheese, lettuce and tomato. Yumm.
Title: Re: Smoked and Fried Bologna
Post by: hikerman on June 08, 2013, 12:51:38 PM
Looks great Dave!
We were in Arkansas 'bout a month ago for a bit of R&R and in our travels we found a real good Smokehouse for meats and cheeses. What we tried was top-shelf. They had the usual, brisket, ribs, loins, bacon, and cheeses, but they said by far the best seller was smoked bologna. The locals ate it up. He smokes 50-75 lbs. per week and always runs out. This in a town of 2800 people.
Gene