Here goes nuthin' - My first fatty (Q-view)

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keitha

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Mar 13, 2016
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Before I poked around on this site, I had no idea what a barbecued fatty was. Needless to say, once I saw a few pics of them, I had to give it a try myself. I put one together tonight, and tomorrow, it'll go on the stick burner.

My idea was to layer beef and pork sausage with a little spinach and cheese. I seasoned the beef (about a lb and a half) with a nice slurry of beef broth, typical barbecue spices, butter and two eggs. It was about a 1/2 cup of liquid. I then added some bread crumbs.

Here is the meat divided up and I used the ziploc bag trick:


(to get this out of the way - these pics aren't very great)

The spinach was sauted with a small onion in olive oil with s & p:


That was the first layer of beef. I cover that with the sausage and put cheese on that:


I covered that with the third layer of beef and rolled it up. I definitely should just layered the meats and then put both the spinach and cheese together on top. The thin layer on the outside pulled apart a bit (a couple very small tears) as I rolled it up. The meat was really moist and soft, so I rolled really gently, but I think keeping it a little simpler would have made my life easier.

Anyway, I put together a bacon braid:


And rolled it up one more time:


I am confident in the seasoning, I just hope the bacon seals up the couple small tears while it's cooking.

I also have a couple racks of ribs to put on tomorrow. Looking forward to a nice weekend smoke!

I'll post the results after the cook.

Good luck!
 
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Look like a pro already!
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Thanks! The fatty sticky made it really easy.
 
Here is the result of the fatty:


It looks a little wet, as this is when it was first removed from the pit. As it has sat for a little while, it looks really good, although we toyed with the idea of popping in a hot oven to crisp it a little. The risk was that is would be overdone, so we opted not to. It smells really good!

More pics to come...
 
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Wow..this is quite possibly the best thing I have ever cooked! Taste, tenderness and appearance all spot on. We ate half of it already!!

Beginners luck, I guess:


The ribs are taking forever..this has been a rough cook, to be honest. The wind has had the temps all over the joint.

Here is one rack..I am going to leave the other one on for a little longer:


We'll see what happens with the other rack..
 
That fatty and ribs look fantastic, reminded me I have two baby back racks in the freezer that need to end up on a couple of dinner plates! Really a great looking fatty.
Alan
 
Keith sorry for being late I must not have hit submit yesterday.That looks great and I am Jealous not having made one yet. Points for you sir

Richie

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That fatty and ribs look fantastic, reminded me I have two baby back racks in the freezer that need to end up on a couple of dinner plates! Really a great looking fatty.
Alan
Thanks Alan!!

Here is one last pic to put a bow on this one:


The ribs were B- to a B. The coleslaw was awesome though! lol!

I still need lots of practice on my fire box management...this one was all over the place, temp wise.

Thanks for reading, guys!
 
 
Keith sorry for being late I must not have hit submit yesterday.That looks great and I am Jealous not having made one yet. Points for you sir

Richie

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Thanks Richie! You really need to give this a shot..it was super easy and well worth the effort. :)
 
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