Friends of ours are having a small get together for new years. I threw out a few ideas and they said they'd like me to do shotgun shells. I did them a few months ago and the only issue I had was the ends of the shells stayed hard. This time around I'm going to boil the shells enough to start to soften them but keep them hard enough to stuff. Then I'm going to refrigerate them for a full day with the meat stuffed and wrapped before cooking. Should be good and soft then.
But here's my question. Do any of you know how these will hold up? Meaning, if I make them at home, put them in an insulated container, take there and not everybody will be showing up at the same time, how long do these stay decent as far as good and crispy bacon and staying fresh? Seems like they'd go downhill pretty fast. Since there are going to be 11 of us I was thinking about cutting into 1" pieces after it's all cooked and done and putting in an air fryer for very short period with more bbq sauce once I get to their house to reheat and crisp everything up. Might be hard to keep the bacon on if I do this though (maybe I could get toothpick through each one).
1st world problems here. LOL. Might be trial and error on this one.
But here's my question. Do any of you know how these will hold up? Meaning, if I make them at home, put them in an insulated container, take there and not everybody will be showing up at the same time, how long do these stay decent as far as good and crispy bacon and staying fresh? Seems like they'd go downhill pretty fast. Since there are going to be 11 of us I was thinking about cutting into 1" pieces after it's all cooked and done and putting in an air fryer for very short period with more bbq sauce once I get to their house to reheat and crisp everything up. Might be hard to keep the bacon on if I do this though (maybe I could get toothpick through each one).
1st world problems here. LOL. Might be trial and error on this one.