Sorry to bother :-[ I'm getting nervous about the cooking time for these pork loins.
I need to pull them out and take a 2-3 hour drive by 11 AM.
The cooker is running at 200 degrees and the loins (4) are 7-8 pounds each.
Always cooked them for 9-10 hours on my Traeger with the smoke setting
Thanks for any help.
So If I did the math right you have ~32lbs of Pork loin in your smoker?
That amount of mass is going to take a while. I have not done that amount of Loin.
A single pork loin smoked @225F will take ~4 hours to get to an IT of 150F or so.
It might take (easily) 8 hours, and I would rotate racks, top to bottom AND front to back, every 2 hours.
The loin is a tender cut, and IMHO, will not really benefit from a low (say 200F) temp. I would run it at 250F (or MAX if you have an OBS)
Thanks... I'm going put on a few racks of duck jerky and goose jerkey here pretty soon.
It's been a couple years since I've cooked anything on it. I'm not sure what temp I can get out of it.
It's a well insulated stainless cabinet with a Bradley Smoke Generator... and the heat source is a 1500W heat element.
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That should reduce the cook time some.
I would still rotate the racks so the meat closest to the element isn't done first.
:-[ Fooled me... IT was 150 + in 6 hours.
Waiting on the beans now.