{"id":17831,"date":"2019-05-12T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=17831"},"modified":"2019-05-12T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:40:15","slug":"retirement-smoked-pork-chops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/retirement-smoked-pork-chops\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Smoked Pork Chops"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Lay two pork chops on a shallow bed of salt.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle salt over top of them as well.<\/li>\n<li>Put chops into the refrigerator<\/li>\n<li>Take a cup of hickory wood chips and soak them in bowl of water<\/li>\n<li>Refrigerate chops overnight uncovered, and let the wood chips soak up water on the counter also overnight<\/li>\n<li>The next morning, wash off the salt from the chops<\/li>\n<li>Dry them well with a paper towel<\/li>\n<li>Pour the water from the wood chip bowl, and place the chips on the used paper towel.<\/li>\n<li>Bring a cast iron skillet or Dutch oven up to about 500\u00ba<\/li>\n<li>Put in 1 TBL safflower oil and spread it around<\/li>\n<li>Put the chop onto the high heat for about three minutes<\/li>\n<li>Turn the chops over and surround them with wood chips, so that the wood chips are in contact with the hot cast iron<\/li>\n<li>Put the cover on the Dutch oven, and as soon as you start to smell smoke (3-5 minutes) set the pan on the patio on a cooling rack for another 5-10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Plate while out on the patio so that you don&#8217;t get smoke in your house<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you are up to it, make your own Birch Syrup.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Collect the sap and bring to a simmer.\u00a0 You will need a lot of sap, as it reduces by about 85% after about ten hours.<\/li>\n<li>Five liters (21 cups) of sap will become about 1\/3 of a cup.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lay two pork chops on a shallow bed of salt. Sprinkle salt over top of them as well. Put chops into the refrigerator Take a cup of hickory wood chips and soak them in bowl of water Refrigerate chops overnight uncovered, and let the wood chips soak up water on the counter also overnight The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/retirement-smoked-pork-chops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retirement Smoked Pork Chops&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17833,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions\/17833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}