I have heard of people using the toothpicks to poke one end of the meat and lay across one of the gabs. You might also want to try getting a small wooden down and hand them over. I do this when making snack sticks. I have also heard of people laying the flat on the racks. if doing this you can get a second set of racks. you can then flip one set over and line what was previously the bottom and double this up on each level with a normally orientated rack. this essentially doubles the cooking area.
I will also add that 10lbs seems like a lot for one load. When loading 10lbs of snack sticks the heating element had a very difficult time heating up enough.
Good luck
