Pork Loin Cooking Time

[dukker]

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.

[FLBentRider]

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)

[dukker]

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.

[FLBentRider]

That should reduce the cook time some.

I would still rotate the racks so the meat closest to the element isn't done first.

[dukker]

 :-[ Fooled me...  IT was 150 + in 6 hours.
Waiting on the beans now.