Going to try egging a bacon wrapped pork tenderloin tonight, need advice

mlamb01 · August 2014

I have a prepackaged whiskey peppercorn pork tenderloin that I picked up at the grocery store, and thought I would wrap some bacon around it and cook it tonight. Thinking about going indirect w/ platesetter @350, then when the IT hits 120, pulling the platesetter and grilling it direct till the IT hits 145, rotating it occasionally. Will keep the temp between 350 and 400 during the direct cook. Might throw some applewood chunks in there as well...

My thought is cooking it direct for the last 20 degrees will help the bacon to get crispy. Not going to do a high heat reverse sear, afraid of what that might do to the bacon. Does sound like a good plan? Any other suggestions?

Also thought about cutting it open and stuffing it with cheese and greens, not sure I want to go thru all that trouble. Don't have a good way to keep it together.

Richard Fl · August 2014

Sometimes pork tenderloins are 2 to a pkg and I like to take them both, slice open, pound them flat lay side by
side and stuff with any of the following, spinach, small asparagus, chutney, pine nuts, cheese and the list goes one. Roll up and then some bacon weave wrap. Cook indirect @ 350-375 until internal is near 140F, pull as it will rise 4-5 degrees. Let rest 10 minutes and serve with coconut jasmine rice.
You might pre-cook the bacon in a micro for a minute or 2 depending on thickness.

lousubcap · August 2014

Never have bacon-wrapped a pork tenderloin but the tenderloins cook quickly. You may want to separately give the bacon a head start cooking-wise then wrap and finish the cook. Hopefully someone with eggsperience with this cook will be along. FWIW-

itsmce · August 2014

@mlamb01 - I think you'd be OK just going direct for the whole cook, rotating every 10 minutes or so. It won't take very long for a pork tenderloin to hit 140-145. Using your idea you may end up with less than crispy bacon.

Lit · August 2014

Yes I make the bacon weave first then pre cook indirect at 350 in my egg for 20 minutes or so. You can cook raised direct the whole time but its going to take like 30 minutes to get to 140. Just keep rolling it around and if tour bacon starts getting too crispy just throw the plate setter in.