Smoked cheese and pepperoni for the holiday snack trays

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redneck5236

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Time to do the smoked cheese and pepperoni for the holidays ! Did several types of cheese. Cooper black pepper. Cheddar. Marbled. Hot pepper. Long horn. And as a expirement one chunk of cream cheese ! I really don’t like cream cheese but seen where people smoke it and have to say smoked it was very good wife and I tried it on crackers so next cheese smoke I will be doing more of the cream cheese ! On to the pepperoni ! always did sticks of pepperoni but couldnt find any good deals prices are way out of control on every thing . Then I had an idea I bought two pounds of sliced pepperoni at sans club .. I put the sliced pepperoni on wood skewers then smoked . My thinking was I don’t have to peel the skin off it. I don’t have to get my slicer out and get it dirty . We only thing we it smoked pepperoni with is cheese and crackers . Well my thinking payed off much more smoking flavor and no extra mess huge success on the pepperoni . I will be doing it this way from now on. Also put in a few hard boiled eggs coated in season salt ! First time I ever let the eggs sit in the season salt overs night. turned my eggs orange and kinda dried them out. And they turned out way to salty . Eggs sitting over night in fridge . Big fail ! cheese was all vacuumed packed the next day I put pepperoni in bags but did not vaccum just sealed . Hope everyone has a great holiday season.
 

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Looks great to me.. and yea.. the salt likely pulled the moisture out of the eggs.. there's other options for the eggs though!
 
What flavor wood did you use on the cream cheese and pepperoni?
Not speaking for the OP. But the few times I did that. I used A-maze-n comp blend. Came out great. Smoked for 2 hours. This was for the pepperoni.
 
Looks great to me.. and yea.. the salt likely pulled the moisture out of the eggs.. there's other options for the eggs though!
Eggs usaly come out great ! Was the first time I let them sit over night . Usaly sprinkle with season salt and right into the smoker .
 
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Eggs usaly come out great ! Was the first time I let them sit over night . Usaly sprinkle with season salt and right into the smoker .
Right.. that overnight stay is where the salt had time to work. Smoked Deviled Eggs are amazing too!
 
Looks like some good stocking stuffers to me.

Point for sure
Chris
 
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