Donald's Bacon Bytes

There are a bunch of posts and images out there of what is called the bacon explosion, pork fatty or bacon bomb and they look soooo good. They are basically a bacon weave with sausage and then smoked for a while. As good as it sounds, I figured I should try to tame it down a little. I eat a lot of fat and protein in my diet but that just seems like a little too much for me.

So, I thought I would stick with the bacon weave idea but wrap it around a pork tenderloin. The pork tenderloin is a great cut of meat and doesn’t have as much fat as some other cuts of pork.

So, to start it off I purchased a 2.5 lb package of pork tenderloin and a 2 lb package of bacon. Good ratio huh? The pork tenderloin packages come with 2 tenderloins inside. I proceeded to rub the tenderloins with a homemade rub (more on that in a minute), then create my bacon weave, put the tenderloins in the middle and roll it up.

Once rolled up, I went out to the grill with my beautiful creation. I lined the sides of my weber with coals to setup some indirect heat and then added some water soaked wood chips (start soaking them when you start preparing the meat) and proceeded to let it smoke for about 75 minutes.

That is all there is to it! Next time I’ll tie the bacon wrap together because it did unroll a little while cooking. Other than that, it turned out excellent.

The rub:

1 1/2 tbsp smoked paprika
1 1/2 tbsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp smoke salt
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp sugar