Ingredients: Pork Chops

• 5 bone in 2 inch loin pork chops
• 1 ½ cups bread crumbs
• 1 ½ cups cheese crackers
• ¾ tsp. Country Bob’s Season Salt
• 2 eggs, beaten
• ¾ cup Country Bob’s Sauce
• ½ cup orange juice

Directions: Breading

Put the crackers in a plastic bag, seal it and work it over with a rolling pin. Mom gave us a marble rolling pin. It’s heavy and really gets the job done. Patti loves using the rolling pin, unless she’s annoyed, then she takes at them with a small hammer! Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Combine the wet ingredients in a separate bowl.

Dip the pork chops in the egg mixture, then into the bread crumbs. You can repeat this until you get a good coating on the chops. You are ready for the grill …

Cooking Directions: Royall Pellet Grill

Open the lid and set the dial to “Smoke”, after about five minutes shut the lid. Give it about 10 minutes to heat up. Patti has lined the drip pan with foil for me, it makes for easier clean up.

Place your chops directly onto the grill and just let it hang out in the smoke and get happy for 30 minutes or so. This is referred to as “cold smoking”; the temperature is around 150 degrees. 30 minutes of cold smoking is not enough to have any cooking effect on your meat but it is enough to open the pours up so that the meat can pick up all the flavor of the smoke.

After 30 minutes, turn the digital control up to 300 degrees and pull the meat off the grill.

When the grill comes up to 300 degrees put the chops back on for 15 minutes preside. Keep in mind that on a Royall Pellet Grill you do not have to turn the meat because of how it cooks. But we like the grill marks…

Grill These for 15 Minutes per Side

Note: I get a lot of questions about the kind of pellets you can use with a recipe. Keep in mind that a recipe is just an outline. Some you need follow closely like when you are making bread, but most you can do anything you can dream, our favorite way to cook. Feel free to mix and match the pellets until you find a combination you really like.

Directions: Gas Grill
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Grill: Direct Medium

Preparing Grill: Medium Direct Heat

Preheat your grill to medium heat (300 - 350). Add your wet hickory chips to the fire and oil the grill. A cooking spray is easiest for this. (Note: you can add your hickory directly to the grill or you can use foil smoke packets.(Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.)

Preparing Charcoal Grill

Get the Grill ready, you will want your temperature of around 300 degrees. Remember, you are going medium heat here for about 30 minutes. Bank your coals over to one side of your grill. Add your “drained wood chips” and you are good to go… Your cooking times and temps will be the same as above, 30 minutes @ 300 degrees.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste.

Take it and run with it….

Live Your Passion,

Ken & Patti