My Fatty Piston

A fatty is a chub of sausage, (usually a 1lb chub) cooked on a smoker. There are so many options on how you can prepare your fatty....stuffed, unstuffed, wrapped in bacon, sprinkled with dry rub.... it's endless.
One fatty recipe is the Bacon Explosion, made popular by the BBQ Addicts. their fatty contains bacon on the inside as well as the outside...thus the "bacon explosion"


Normally fatty fillings are sprinkled on top of a rectangle of sausage and then it's rolled up. I decided to make a "fatty piston"for my filling.
I wanted to try out my new fatty piston which was inspired by a talented smoker named Grillinski, he came up with the idea. Grillinski made a piston with a wooden disc and an arrow shaft for the piston rod.

I just made mine out of schedule 40 pvc.



To try out my fatty piston I made some corned beef hash... sauteed onions and garlic in a bit of oil, added corned beef, salt and pepper.

Then I added cheese and minced jalapenos to the filling....
and let it cool.

My piston.....






I place the piston on some plastic wrap.... then start filling

I tamp down the filling as I go...

After filling, I wrap the tube in plastic wrap and let it chill in the fridge...


I roll my spicy hot sausage out in a large plastic baggie....




Cut the top of the baggie open....




Shoot the filling onto the sausage using my fatty piston....




then use the plastic to fold the spicy sausage around the corned beef filling....




I made a bacon weave......



Roll the bacon weave around the corned beef hash stuffed fatty......let it chill until time to smoke.

Into my drum smoker for 4 hours.......









The spicy hot sausage fatty, stuffed with corned beef hash and wrapped in a bacon weave...

It was tasty and I love my fatty piston! It was fun to use..... I'll think up some more stuffings to try.

Now if I could figure out a way to make tortillas with my drill press maybe I could get some sleep at night. lol

Another piston fattie... Fried Potato and Ham Smoked Fattie

Another Breakfast Fattie

Mesquite Smoked Beef Indian Tacos

I smoked some boneless beef ribs in my drum using a small bit of mesquite....

ok...two are missing, I had to taste them. :)



Then I made some fry bread using

2 cups of flour

1 TBS of baking powder

1 tsp of salt

1 TBS of lard

then added about 1/2 cup of warm water

kneaded and let it rest covered for 30 minutes...

Hand flattened the dough into rounds, leaving the outside edges high...



Fryed til golden on both sides....








Made some refried beans

I sauteed some onion and garlic in lard, added cooked pinto beans and smooshed them while frying.... then seasoned with salt, pepper and cayenne.

I topped the fry bread with some of the beans and smoked beef....




Added cheese.....



lettuce, and fresh pico de gallo......




It was pretty tasty..... :)