Pork/Pig Shot Appetizers

My co-workers love to celebrate birthdays with potlucks and I've been providing them with wings, MOINKs, ABTs, fatties, smoked meatloaf, ribs, pulled pork, and brisket. I try to keep a rotation going so I'm not bringing the same stuff all of the time (despite their addiction to MOINKs) so when I saw some recent posts on these "Pig Shots" and "Pork Shots" posted places including here and here I decided to try a batch.

In the early morning hours today I assembled 58 of these bacon wrapped around kielbasa discs (little "shot" glasses), piped in some cream cheese and topped with a brown sugar/rub combo:



I overslept a bit this morning and needed to make up a little time so this morning's cook was going to be in the OTP with a lid temp at just about 300 (usually a little cooler at the grate). Actually, I cook my MOINKs at a similar temp as well so I figured these could be done in probably under 90 mins.

After about 75-80 minutes of indirect cooking they were ready to go to work with me (well 55 of them went to work, 3 were part of a Quality Assurance testing at home):



They were pretty tasty and were well received at the office! These were a little on the sweet side so I'll be doing some testing with some hotter rubs, a little less brown sugar, and maybe some of the popular ABT fillings in the future.

Thanks for looking and thanks to those who've posted these "shots" before!

---k--- said:

Those look fantastic.

Can I ask how long it took to assemble 58 of them? Seems like the longest part of the cook.

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Yeah Ryan, prep was longer than the cook. I spent a little over 2 hrs on the prep. Removing the casing from the kielbasa quickly got old. Someone with more nimble fingers could probably get it done faster.

71-South said:

Those look great! I did 24 the other day and I was really tired of putting them together by the time I was done. Fifty-eight must have been fun.

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IMO, the "fun" level was almost as high as when making ABTs.