Making fatties the day before

When I make them for work, it's the day before. I also smoke a few extra and put them in the freezer here at the house.  I've reheated in the oven and after slicing they reheat just fine in the microwave (OMG did I really say that!!!  They are going to revoke my SMF ID card).

My logic is the smoker runs the same if I have one or twelve in there, so load her up.....

Oh, and the ones I freeze at the house I pre-slice.  That way I just stick a table knife in between the slices to pop off one or two and keep the rest frozen.  Tasty on a biscuit.

Yep.  Smoke them up and then you can either store them whole or sliced up. Sometimes I realign the slices to reform the fattie shape before freezing, others I lay them flat in bags and keep in the fridge.  Depends on how soon I plan on reheating them.

In fact, just this morning I was digging around in the chest freezer in the garage and found a whole smoked fattie (un-sliced) which I had forgotten about.  It was down in the bottom out of sight.  Put that bad boy in the fridge to defrost and will have some in the morning.  I didn't mark the wrapper, so it will be a surprise as to what the inside contents are.

For long term storage I usually cool them and then vacuum pack them before freezing.  Keeps longer that way.