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Fast Eddies Bacon Explosion

First and foremost I must give a shout out to Jason over at BBQ Addicts for sharing his experimental Bacon Explosion. While reading Jason’s blog entry I knew I had to make a Fast Eddies version of the Bacon Explosion for the Annual Walsh Brothers Super Bowl Party.

After reviewing the previous attempts posted across the web I realized that I would need to step up my game.

The Raw Materials required are as follows:

• 3 lbs of thick cut bacon
• 1/2 cup of Fast Eddies Original Steak Seasoning
• 1 cup of BBQ sauce (with no HFCS, I prefer to make my own)
• 3/4 lb of Hot Italian Sausage
• 3/4 lb of Sweet Italian Sausage

Prepare your grill or smoker so that once your Bacon Explosion is ready for the grill you have worked up a dense smoke along with a constant temperature.

Start by creating a bacon weave with 1 1/2 pounds of raw bacon laid flat on an extra large baking sheet.

Split the sausage casings and combine the Hot and Sweet Italian Sausage in a mixing bowl, spread sausage evenly on top of bacon weave, and lather up with your BBQ sauce.

On a separate baking sheet fry up the remaining bacon, pat dry, and crumble.

Apply the bacon crumbles over the top of the lathered up sausage and bacon weave.

Begin rolling the sausage, sauce, and bacon crumbles away from you while separating from the bacon weave.

Once rolled tight, begin rolling the entire weave and sausage roll back to you.

Now that you have the roll in front of you provide a liberal dusting of Fast Eddies over the entire log.

With your bacon explosion ready for the smoker check the smoker and place the entire log over a drip pan and grill using indirect grilling.

The most important part of the entire procedure is patience. Allow the Bacon Explosion time to properly smoke. I waited 4 hours before lifting the lid even once and kept a constant temperature of 275 F.

Much too my delight the Bacon Explosion was a work of art.

Needless to say the Bacon Explosion was a huge hit at the Super Bowl Party and although I attempted to serve the log as pinwheels, the smell of the Bacon Explosion brought everyone into the kitchen and the horde devoured the entire log in under 3 minutes.