Bacon Wrapped Backstraps on the MES 40 w/ Que-View```

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diesel-gunner

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Jun 12, 2013
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First time posting a whole run so please be nice! LOL

So I pulled these three pieces of Whitetail out of the freezer on Thursday. They are from a friends hunt in Texas last season and I didn't want to let them get buried from the latest Costco run of my wifes.

I looked on here for some inspiration, and combined a few things of my own to come up with the following:

I had three, so I soaked the first in Allegro hot and spicy for 4 hours. It will be the one that looks darker in the pics. 

I took the second and soaked in Allegro Smokey for 4 hours. It looks dark as well.

The third I simply dried off with paper towels and sprinkled with salt and pepper.

All three were wrapped in bacon:


And into the smoker at 225 with a single row of Pit Masters Choice Pellets.

I smoked to an IT of 130. The bacon looked good, but needed to be a little more crisp, so I transferred to a 500 degree grill of 3 minutes per side.

This is how it looked after coming off:


 
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I let it rest for 45 minutes under foil, and then sliced thin:


It was juicy, tasted great, and was gone in about 10 minutes with my wife and 2 kids at the helm. 

The black looking hole in the center of the cut is from my meat probe. 


I couldn't really taste a difference in the two different types of Allegro. I use both for ducks and they are definitely different, but for deer, I could tell.

They were a little sweeter than the one with simple salt and pepper and no marinade,but they were all three eaten and enjoyed just the same.

Happy Smokin!

DG
 
That looks fantastic! I now know what I am doing with the ones in my freezer this weekend.

I will add the point.
 
Man that is beautiful cooked venison. 
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That looks wonderful!  Keep on posting stuff like that :)
 
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