Fatty question

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atomicsmoke

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I want to try my hand at a fatty this weekend. I was thinking of using ground pork, beef and or mild pork sausage.

How do you season the meat? How much salt/lb of meat? The sausage is on the salty side. If I mix with ground beef (50/50) should I skip salt?

I want to keep the "shell" simple (S&P), be creative with the insides. Are there other spices considered "must" in the ground meat?

Thank you
 
I'm making my first one today. Im following an Italian meatball recipe (slightly modified). I'm not stuffing it with anything because it's a great meatball recipe that I've done numerous times and want to see how it goes smoked and wrapped in bacon.

To check your seasoning just sauté a small little patty before you roll it.

I'm one hour in...
 
You can save a bunch of time and effort and just get some premade sausage I use Jimmy Dean pork sausage most of the time
 
Atomicsmoke,

As Piney said it's much easier to buy a 1lb chub at the store, especially for your first one.

My store has a pretty good selection and the 1lb chub is the perfect size for a fatty. 

Good luck and enjoy! 
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I am doing my second fatty this weekend and like the others have said I just used Jimmy Dean Original sausage. It was really easy to put together. Tomorrow it will be smoked with a 9 lb pork shoulder (and usually whatever else I can find to fill the smoker up).

Good luck with yours.
 
Oh, and whatever you do..... do not over stuff! You won't like the result while trying to roll it 
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Oh, and whatever you do..... do not over stuff! You won't like the result while trying to roll it 
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LOL   That was my problem I think.   I had to get more burger and put in a loaf pan.
 
My fatty update:

It tastes like a bacon wrapped smoked Italian meatball... Good but not great. Everything I've tried to date has been awesome and this was a little bit of a disappointment.

I think my wood of choice might have had something to do with it; I used guava and kiawe wood. I've used guava on beef before and it's just to subtle for that meat. Guava goes great with chicken, salmon or pork. I did a guava smoked prime rib before and I could barely taste the smoke at all; I might as well of thrown it in the oven.

The good news was that I had space for a quartered spogged chicken which turned out incredible.

Thread jack over... ;)
 
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