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I have a package of pork tenderloins, two tiny tenderloins that weigh 2.77 pounds total. I was thinking of butterflying both of them and laying them out to make one tenderloin roll. I was going to stuff with simple boxed stuffing with some mushrooms added. I thought to make it fancy by putting a bacon weave around it a la Cowgirl. For spices I thought I would keep it basic with SPOG.

Sound ok? Any suggestions for cook and internal temps?
 
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I just rolled and cooked one this weekend with capicola, fresh mozzarella, basil pesto and oven dried tomatoes. Like the way it turned out.
 
Yeah, I forgot to mention wood. I usually go with apple wood for pork...
 
I stuff mine with dried apples and wrap with bacon in the smoker. Or I make pork Wellington ala Alton Brown.
 
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I haven't opened this package yet, but I am bretty sure there are two almost cone shaped pieces of tenderloin in there. Has anyone tried to butterfly those so they can be laid together, stuffed, and then rolled as one piece?
 
Well, as I thought, there were two tenderloins in the package and they were kinda cone shaped. Did my best to butterfly them out, pound them fairly flat, line them up together, and pound them again.

Made a box of pork stuffing with chicken broth instead of water and a couple cans of drained button mushrooms. After it cooled, I put a nice amount of it on one end of the flattened pork and then carefully rolled it up. I wrapped that in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge to gel up a bit.

While that was cooling off, I made a bacon weave. I needed it larger than normal, so I used 16 slices. I tried to stretch the bacon a little while I wove it.

Plopped the roll in the center of the weave diagonally with what I thought was the weakest part of the roll in the center facing down. Lifted up the foil one corner at a time to wrap the weave around the roll. Finally, I gently rolled the wrapped roll over and did a final bit of shaping and tucking. I wrapped the roll in the foil and back in the fridge to firm up until I cook it tomorrow afternoon. I specifically used foil for this so in case it feels too fragile tomorrow to lift and set on the grate, then I'll just put it all on the grate and trim the foil around it.

I didn't season it much. A little season salt and black pepper. The chicken stock will add some salt and I didn't want to over do it. Plan to serve it with more stuffing, pork gravy, and some green beans...
 

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Too late for this time, but there is always next time...

Trying to decide if I should cook this LnS or HnF. I think the high heat would probably do better on the bacon weave. Someone suggested an IT of 140*, that sound right?
 
Fired up the WSM with KBB using the torch around 3 pm. Cooking direct, no water pan. When the smoke was clear and the pit read 340*, I popped the lid, gently placed the roll on the grate, inserted the meat probe, and got the lid back on. I added to chuncks of apple and one chunk of cherry.

The IT of the meat was 43* and the pit settled in around 325*. I am guessing that this is going to take around two hours to get to an IT of 140* when I can pull it and cover it to rest and climb to 145*.
 
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Took right at 2 hours to cook. Had some temp fluctuations at first, but once it got settled, it was smooth sailing.
 

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Man that looks awesome.


Great job.




Is that mushrooms in the stuffing?
 
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