♫ Gonna smoke me a fatty brisket
♫ Got my barbeque shoes on
♫ Gonna smoke me a fatty brisket
♫ Got my barbeque shoes on
♫ Got my natural casing
♫ Got the hogs on the run ♫
- [Voiceover] Welcome to bbqpitboys.com.
Today we're cooking up some bacon potato
sticks and wheels at the pit.
And it's real easy to do, of course.
All right.
Here I've got a apple corer, you've seen this before
and it looks like we're doing our potato bombs.
If you've never done the potato bombs,
you've definitely check 'em out.
Same procedure, but we're going to
cook 'em up a little bit different.
Now, I've taken this apple core
and I've taken a potato, it's a russet type potato.
They're elongated, they work perfect
for these bacon potato sticks and wheels.
And you just core out the potato.
It's real easy to do, all right.
All right, just like that.
Now sometimes they'll break off a little bit,
but that's fine 'cause we're talking
about hors d'oeuvres here,
just in time for the holidays
or your Sunday meal, whatever.
You just take your apple corer like that,
ream it through the center of the potato
and you end up with a stick.
Simple enough.
Let me show another one.
Nah, we don't need to show it, you know how to do it.
All right, we've cored out all these potatoes.
We got a bunch.
A bunch of potato bombs ready to go.
But let me put these aside for a minute.
And here we've got some belly bacon.
All right.
You know all about the bacon.
And we're gonna just cut these strips in half.
You could leave 'em whole.
Depends how much bacon
you're gonna want on these sticks and wheels.
So you take a slice, take a stick,
and just wrap it around just like that.
Oh, oh, oh man.
I think you got an idea where we're gonna go with this.
Again, take a strip of bacon.
And these are regulars, cut bacon.
I'll wrap it around just like that.
Man.
Now, if you've never had one of these bacon potato sticks,
you definitely got to check it out.
You better make a bunch.
You bring 'em to a holiday table
and they will be the first to go.
And ol' momma, no she's not gonna like that
'cause nobody's gonna eat her casseroles, right?
(chuckles)
All right, you get the picture.
Now we've got all those cored potatoes left here
and instead of making potato bombs out of 'em,
we're gonna make some wheels, we call 'em wheels.
You can call 'em what you want.
And you take a slice about the same thickness
as your potato bacon sticks there.
All right, and this allows both the sticks
and these wheels to cook approximately the same time.
Again, oh man.
Now these work good in a fryer too,
and you just do it the way you want,
but you definitely got to check out this recipe.
They're good!
Just slice 'em.
(blues guitar music)
Oh, man.
Now, again we'll take a slice of bacon.
Just wrap it.
Now you may need a whole slice of bacon, not a half.
Depends how big your potatoes are.
Either or, it works good!
Again, let me show you.
Take the bacon and wrap it.
And of course, you don't need toothpicks.
If you do it the way we do it, it'll be good.
All right, the sticks and the wheels
have been wrapped with bacon,
and now we're gonna place 'em on the grill,
opposite the hot coals.
This is indirect cooking, zone cooking.
You know all about that
if you've been watching us over the years.
And you do it because you don't want
the bacon to cook too quickly,
otherwise it'll pull away from the potatoes.
(blues music)
Get 'em in there, oh man.
Are you getting hungry or what?
(chuckles)
And if you're not, you're on the wrong channel.
Man.
Oh, oh, oh.
Not much more to say about it.
And pile 'em in there.
(blues music)
All right.
We put the cover on.
This will take about 30 to 40 minutes.
You cook 'em to when the bacon is done.
Just time to kick back and relax.
Grab a cold one or hang with the chicken.
(chuckles)
The chicken's happy we're not cooking up chicken tonight.
All right, we're just about done.
The bacon is done, the potatoes are done,
but we're gonna hit 'em with some sauce.
Use your favorite sauce.
You can go heat or sweet, the way you like.
It gives them some color.
Oh, man.
(blues guitar music)
Can you smell that?
It smells good!
Martha, we're gonna be eating good tonight.
Just slather it on.
Put the cover on maybe another 10 minutes or so.
Get 'em just the way you like 'em.
And through the miracle of time,
these bacon potato sticks and wheels are done.
Take a look at that.
Oh, oh, oh man.
Vegematics, you must just try
one of these maybe now.
You know those vegematics, they cheat.
I'd say it's time to eat.
We'll plate 'em up.
Oh, man.
(rock music)
Oh, baby, we're looking good tonight.
(rock music)
Now, you can serve 'em
with what condiments you like.
With some sauce, we got some sour cream there.
Just take a look at that.
You better make a bunch of 'em, I'm telling ya.
They'll go fast.
And of course, as always,
we do apologize for eating in front of you like that,
but we call this pitmaster privilege.
Well, eat your heart out, vegematics.
(spirited rock music)
Let me show you what one of these look like inside.
Awe.
Are you kiddin' me?
(spirited rock music)
So the next time you're looking
for a recipe for your barbeque,
check out bbqpitboys.com.