My first fattie. Not a failure but needs some work.

hooligan8403 · Jun 11, 2012

Ok I finally got around to smoking a fattie. Thought I had a good Idea but as youll see I didnt quiet get it right. Was making a healthy fatty using ground turkey, turkey bacon, and lowfat mozzerella cheese. Started by mixing the 1.25# of turkey with Todd's dirt, whole wheat bread crumbs, and red pepper flakes. rolled it out in a ziplock and put it in the freezer to stiffen up a bit. I think I had it in there to long as well as having it to thin. more meat next time. The stuffing is sauteed onions, garlic, poblanos, tomatoes, mozzerella, and fresh basil. When rolling I noticed the fattie breaking becasue of how solid it was from the freezer. Patched the holes and got it it wrapped up. Then came my bacon weave. I got it weaved looking fine till I tried to roll the weave around. Didnt make the weave big enough. so only really got like 3/4 the way around. Smoked it and it got done really quick due to the thinness so of the fatty wall so I tossed it in the broiler to crisp the bacon up a little more. My main question is how do you guys extend the bacon weave all around the fatty or does regular bacon just stretch farther?

Rolled and filled.

Ready for the bacon.

Bacon Weave

Rolled in the weave. Wasnt as tight as I wanted.

Pulled from the broiler

Money shot.

Too thin on the bottom and fell apart when I served it but it tasted good. Still very moist and and had a nice flavor from the vegetables.

deuce · Jun 11, 2012

It looks pretty good to me!! I think regular bacon may have more stretch than turkey bacon, but have never compared them. You may have gotten another few inches if you would have added another piece at the end if that would have helped. I am by no means an expert and have only made these once, but it helped for me to wrap in saran wrap once wrapped in bacon and continue to roll it while holding the ends until it tightened up.

dewetha · Jun 11, 2012

tasted good? then your half way there!. i find i need to put most bacon things into my broiler to crisp them up. the wife only eats turkey bacon :(.

hooligan8403 · Jun 12, 2012

dewetha said:
tasted good? then your half way there!. i find i need to put most bacon things into my broiler to crisp them up. the wife only eats turkey bacon :(.

My wife has gone health nuts on me so we mostly eat ground turkey and turkey bacon. Luckily she still enjoys good food just having to adapt recipes.

Deuce said:
It looks pretty good to me!! I think regular bacon may have more stretch than turkey bacon, but have never compared them. You may have gotten another few inches if you would have added another piece at the end if that would have helped. I am by no means an expert and have only made these once, but it helped for me to wrap in saran wrap once wrapped in bacon and continue to roll it while holding the ends until it tightened up.

I think I thought of a way to extend the weave but its going to mean overlapping some pieces on the vertical side. Going to have to try to do the seran wrap for the weave.

smokinhusker · Jun 12, 2012

That looks soooo good. I'll have to try one with ground turkey, but real bacon for me.

Here's a tutorial on the bacon weave etc that I used when I started making them. It's posted in the Fattie Sticky

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/87031/rollin-a-fatty-my-version

bruno994 · Jun 12, 2012

I think we're missing the point, a health conscious fattie? C'mon, indulge. LOL, just kidding Hooligan. Yours looks great. I wish I could make myself eat better, maybe one day. I haven't done a fattie in a few months 'cause I'm letting my arteries clear out before I do another one! Yeah, 1 more strip of bacon in the weave or it could just be the fact of the less fattie turkey bacon not giving any like regular pork belly would like Deuce stated.

kryinggame · Jun 12, 2012

It looks fine. I used thick hickory bacon from Costco's because it stretches better. Then once it's all weaved up, I put toothpicks in it to keep it's place.

The problem I had when I rolled my fattie was, I got to excited and made it way to thick and put to many items in it. I quickly learned the rule of K.I.S.S.

hooligan8403 · Jun 12, 2012

Just had a fatty sammy for lunch and it was just as good as leftovers.

SmokinHusker said:
That looks soooo good. I'll have to try one with ground turkey, but real bacon for me.

Here's a tutorial on the bacon weave etc that I used when I started making them. It's posted in the Fattie Sticky

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/87031/rollin-a-fatty-my-version

I think the biggest complaint I have found in the forums with turkey is that it tends to be dry. I think a) using real bacon and b) adding the bread crumbs solved this. and making bread crumbs is really simple.

bruno994 said:
I think we're missing the point, a health conscious fattie? C'mon, indulge. LOL, just kidding Hooligan. Yours looks great. I wish I could make myself eat better, maybe one day. I haven't done a fattie in a few months 'cause I'm letting my arteries clear out before I do another one! Yeah, 1 more strip of bacon in the weave or it could just be the fact of the less fattie turkey bacon not giving any like regular pork belly would like Deuce stated.

Trust me I will be making one of these with real bacon and sausage/beef mixture and probably enough filling to take down an elephant in a few months. I think the bacon definatly didnt stretch like regular bacon which I figured it wouldnt but I was hoping for a bit more stretch out of it.

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