Smoked Pork Loin Chops
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I’ve never cooked PORK LOIN CHOPS on my Lang BBQ Smoker, mainly because most are too thin and it’s not worth the effort to set up the smoker cooker for a short cook. Another BBQ site suggested using thicker cuts of meat. I had my butcher cut 3 center cut pork loin chops about 1” thick (2 fingers).
Author: Wood River BBQ Team from Lang Forum
Recipe type: Smoker Cooker
Ingredients
- PORK LOIN CHOPS - Ask for Center Cut and have butcher cut them 1" thick.
- BRINE
- 64oz apple juice
- Brown sugar
- Kosher salt
- Grill Mates Pork Rub
Instructions
- TRIM
- I trimmed the perimeter fat, which won't penetrate the meat, and also trimmed the thin layer of silver skin under the fat. If I didn't remove the silver skin it will shrink during the cook and cause the meat to “cup”. If I didn't want to remove the fat/silver skin I could have cut slits through the fat/silver skin down to the meat.
- BRINE
- Heated 32oz of apple juice and then add the rest of the ingredients, including the rest of the apple juice. When it cooled, pour the brine into a ZipLock bag, added the chops and refrigerated for 3 hours.
- SMOKER COOKER
- I was looking for 140* internal and flipped the meat at 130* internal. I started the cook at 4:00PM and my cooker temperature averaged 265*. Windy and cold conditions were a problem during this cook but by 5:15PM,1 piece was at 140* so I had to let the other 2 cook a few minutes longer. The Thermopen, or other digital devise, is very important when cooking different size pieces of meat.
any quantity on ingredients
There is a name on the recipe at the top of the BBQ company that posted this. You may look it up for the brine recipe. Otherwise the pork was cut in 3 one inch pieces.