Smoked Bologna - Smo-Fried Twist on a Childhood Classic

[@jerrylong3580]

I worked with a guy back early in my firefighter career, that when we worked together would go to the local meat counter at the market and have them cut us bologna slices as thick as they could somewhere from 3/8 to 1/2 inch then take them back season them and put them on the grill. Once done add some sliced pepper jack cheese bbq sauce then make the bologna burger. Lettuce tomato onion and chow down. Thanks for the video brought back great memories.

[@johnathonmcgee1123]

damm sounds fire...get it fire lol ty for your service fireman

[@keil97]

The guy who hired me 17 years ago was already doing fine but now he's in the corporate part of our parent company. Still swears by a bologna sandwich. One time said "I'm going to get my wife to cook me a bologna steak, cut extra thick, because itbwas a good month."

[@texdownunder]

Ex Waxahachie firefighter here. 👍🏼

[@jonfranklin4583]

Gonna try and find a whole bologna and give that a go, looks awesome. We had an old grocery that always had bologna in huge logs, like 10 lb size, my mother would have the owner slice up a pound and the old guy would always cut an extra slice off for me to eat in the store. The store is long gone and I rarely buy bologna as it is hard to find a decent one out here in Washington state but you have stoked fond memories and I'm now on a mission! Thanks again.

[@chuskey1384]

It’s also awesome to throw your slices in a deep fryer as a change up from pan fried!

[@fredwilliams9572]

You saved your Grand dad’s cast iron! Doesn’t matter what the world thinks of you. You did the right thing. Bless you. Great looking sandwich. I know how wonderful it tastes.

[@JaneFullum]

I smoked two chubs and they were delicious. I had some leftovers so using my Alabama roots, made what I am calling Poor Man’s Stew. I cubed up the balogna and used it in a black-eyed pea soup with collards. I used onions, garlic, lentil, carrots, celery, smoked paprika, red pepper flakes, chicken broth and ham broth, fire roasted tomatoes and collards. It was more of a stew than a soup. Even my New York husband loved it. The seasoning on the bologna added some flavor and of course I used Holy Cow instead of salt and pepper. It was great with cornbread!

[@Cpreston]

I am a meat church person. Think we all should be. This recipe is shockingly awesome

[@lukeman42]

Great video will be doing this over the weekend ...the fact you don't have a million followers is crazy

[@Rocketman5x]

I grew up on Lebanon Bologna, being from Pennsylvania. My friends from Maryland call it sour balogna. Haha. White bread, American cheese, Lebanon balogna, Mayo (Dukes now) and lettuce. Ohhhh supreme.

[@paulpysher11]

@rocketman5x Fried sweet Lebanon bologna sandwich with sweet and spicy pickles! Cut three slits in it like pork roll to keep it from getting a bubble in the middle when fried!

[@MrStoutfool]

Hell yeah! I’m a Nashville kid and grew up on fried bologna sandwiches! This is something I’ve put off for far too long! Thanks for the reminder of what we grew up eating! Great video!

[@TheRealBobBasher]

I am fortunate enough to have a part time job in my retirement working a family owned pizza place. My cast iron pan was pretty sad. I took my DA and sanded it down and took it there an let it season for 3 hours at 500 degrees. The surface is like glass!

[@Ribpublicansbbqteam]

Pro Tip: Run your boning knife through a bed of yellow mustard (blade edge) and slice...this way you can easily see your cut marks as you go if your're OCD as hell like myself lol

[@bkellyphotography1030]

My grandma made me fried bologna sandwiches for my school lunches lol !!!! Love your channel my friend !!!!

[@deanm4138]

You can’t go wrong with a fried bologna sandwich, adding smoke to it would definitely take an already amazing sandwich over the top

[@walterkopriva9735]

Raised on bologna and spam. Having it fried was a treat! Takes me back for sure.

[@JayKoczan]

I've always done my fried bologna sandwiches with just yellow mustard on plain white bread, never done mayo. Gonna have to try that!

[@TheRealChetManley]

Fried bologna was a treat for us growing up in the 70s and 80s in KY.

[@mod2868]

Yum! I would love this with some tomato slices and a runny egg.

[@collinwilliams5097]

Idk if anyone else has said it but fried bologna, toasted white bread, and yellow mustard is all you need! Grandparents cooked it for us all the time and it definitely beats white bread and mayo 😂 cheers and Geaux Tigers!

[@austingardner3171]

The best words in BBQ are “I ain’t mad at it”. Meat church is King 👑

[@whatsdenniscooking6746]

My nephew gave me a bologna this past Christmas. Was planning on smoking it this weekend.

[@mikestewart3670]

Fried bologna, egg, cheese on a toasted hamburger bun was my go-to growing up.

[@Demonpk-lb4gh]

Thanks Matt for bringing tears to my eyes. I have four or five of those cast iron skillets. Just like that are my late moms. She used to do bologna just like that fry it up cut the ends so it wouldn't make a mess. That's some good eating right there

[@AntiDot70]

Mom used to make bologna sadwitch fried like a schnitzel, dipped in egg, flour and bread crumbs. One of the best childhood meals I still remember 50 some years ago. Love it.

[@SurlyDeath]

Bologna is awesome out of the package! I got a quarer log smokin now, bub!'

[@itsmeagain2001]

There was a little gas station on Riverside Dr in Ft.Worth that made bbq bologna sandwiches and they were good

[@barakharlan]

"Slicing Bologna against the grain since 2014." I'd wear that Tshirt.

[@jlefty30]

I smoke a chub of garlic bologna once a month. I love bologna and eat it for my lunch at work all the time

[@williamlott7612]

There was a little country grocery store near the Nucor Steel Mill in Charleston, South Carolina that served baloney and cheese sandwiches. Two pieces of white bread with mustard, a thick slice of cheddar, and an equally thick slice of baloney. The whole sandwich weighed about 1/2 pound and didn’t require anything else but a drink. Good, simple food. Darlington, South Carolina

[@BabyDiego10599]

Grew up on fried bologna sandwiches 🥪 so good!

[@cmbtvet8272]

Thank you again. I love how you share your arsenal with us who are new. The VA just gave me a new wheelchair that raises which makes smoking much easier

[@4gz252]

Absolutely awesome! Same here with grandma, bologna is the best!

[@markmaul4525]

Matt I have smoked many chubs of bologna. I love how after it is smoked how its taste Changes for the better. It will have a complete different tastes and my neighbors and I love it. All the smoking that I love to do I share with my good neighbors and they really enjoy when I smoke the bologna.

[@Amocoru]

Fried bologna sandwiches are my comfort food from childhood. I love making this so much.

[@TimShaw81]

Bar-S factory literally right down the street from my house (Oklahoma). I grew up off fried bologna sandwiches.

[@GreggB-en6eq]

I smoked my bologna chub today to 180°. It came out perfect and the Gospel rub tastes great on it. My fried bologna sandwich was wonderful. I fried the bread on both sides like you would if you were making a grilled cheese sandwich. I used miracle whip and lettuce and tomato on it. Another great recipe from Meat Church. Great Job Matt!

[@StevenScone]

Fried, American cheese and 2 slices of bread. I'm gold.

[@samuelsmall8449]

Man. This brought back some memories. Another great video. Thank you.

[@SinisterMD]

Last time you did this you were at the lake. ;) Looks fantastic. Congrats on the 10 year anniversary! Well deserved.

[@MeatChurchBBQ]

Thanks!

[@ncshpfox]

It also makes a great breakfast sandwich. Add a fried egg, cheese and BLT. Is a staple around my house.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Nothing like recreating nostalgia. That looks great. Cheers, Matt! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️

[@MattCason]

Plan to smoke one soon and you are correct the answer is always Dukes!

[@marknelson6319]

HA!! Alabama Tenderloin, I love it! Brought back great memories of the "old timers" bringing this to the deer lease and frying it up, was SO good! Keep up the AWESOME work!

[@AntiDot70]

OMG Alabama Tenderloin!! I can't stop laughing. Best comment ever. Thank you for saying this, whoever you are

[@claytonbarker6636]

I literally just watched your video from 4 years ago and I'm wearing one or shirts lol honestly one of the most comfortable shirts ive ever owned and im smoking a chub rite now your the man matt learned alot from your videos much love from VA

[@slideoff1]

1970 We called them Bologna Star sammiches! We always had a round of that in the fridge... I like tomato on mine.

[@ruthweigh5507]

Love that you used a pan that your great grand dad use…cast iron-👍🏼

[@richbennett6577]

I love that you did this. I remember my family having bologna sandwiches growing up too

[@johnlebzelter4208]

Enjoyed the video Matt. Sorry for your loss man. Keep on doing what you’re doing! Always enjoy the content.

[@lindamohr838]

I am so glad this video popped up! I just bought a chub and was getting ready to smoke it today!

[@thomasnewell8328]

Great grandmother would make those for me and my friends for lunch on Saturday's before we'd head to the public pool. Great memory you brought back Matt! Awesome video too. Will give that a try. Finally bought Blanco! Fanominal!!

[@teamstromski]

I grew up fried bologna sandwiches. Heavy mayo, melted cheese, and a fried egg popped so the yolk isn't runny. All 3 of my kids still come running when they hear that sizzle.

[@velodyneman]

Grew up on bologna and onion sandwiches. Thanks for bringing back some memories.

[@danielrowe2174]

I used the same Bologna and used Swap boys howler yellow mustard as the binder with Texas sugar seasoning. Put it on my Weber 22 and smoked it with Hickory and Oak. To finish it off I coated the burnt ends with sweet baby rays BBQ original and they are amazing.

[@leedoss6905]

Okay let's get one thing perfectly straight. I was raised in Texas and the south on a farm. I frigging hate fried bologna. 😂 I was force fed this stuff for way too long. But yours looks good as usual and hats off to people that like it. With the price of meat these days I might start to like it again.

[@randymo8709]

When I make this recipe, I add a bit of a low salt rub (like texas sugar) to the top of the slice to give the sandwich a little extra kick. Always a winner with the family. Thanks Matt.

[@Chuck5653]

I grew up on bologna and mayo sandwiches in the late 50's early 60's. Haven't had it in 40 years or more. Looks like I am going to have to do it.

[@eforbes1977]

I've made this after watching the last video you made. It's AMAZING!!! I love a fried bologna sandwich on white bread w/ Dukes mayo!! Thank you for sharing this!

[@davidarnold5754]

I love fried bologna, but it doesn't like me anymore. Was drooling watching this video. Thank you for bringing back great memories.

[@Marine-wj4jv]

Thin sliced home grown tomatoes are great on that sandwich!

[@RobertKohut]

I have sliced it, put it on the gas grill and sauced it low temp for a couple hours...delicious!! 🙂I need to try sliced on the smoker....🙂

[@tomasperez8595]

I loved to come home to a Bologna and tortilla taco when I was a kid. Never tried the smoked and seared bologna sandwich, but I will now. Thanks dude. Always enjoy your videos.

[@Meister1551]

I'm with you. Love fried Bologna. Oscar Meyer was all we got in our house, but it was bologna, it was fried up and it was good...

[@jerichofawkes1911]

Shout out to Levi! Lol! My grandma used to make us fried bologna sandwiches with tomato soup. I still make it for my grown up kids. Comfort food.

[@tictackpainting9983]

Like you I grew up eating this sandwich and have cooked it for my kids and grandkids. It’s a hit with all of them. Great video and thank you for the story of the cast iron skillet you used. Outstanding!!

[@jjpulido404]

Need that "May the Pork be with You" little sign you have😍 Awesome video as always☝️🔥

[@heathnclark]

I've been wanting to do one of these...I think you just convinced me.

[@DrJohn493]

If you grew up in rural Alabama, in the 60s like I did, bologna sammiches on white bread was what you ate most days for lunch, especially when doing field work. But never as good as this method of dressing the bologna up. Washed down with a quart mason jar of sweet tea wrapped in newspaper and a paper sack to keep it cool.

[@dannycornelius4015]

I can't remember the last time I had a bologna sandwich! I do remember as a kid I would cut a slit in the center so it wouldn't dome up while frying it. That looks fantastic Matt!

[@kevinhigh8161]

Sweet south dallas round steaks!!!!

[@JayHBoomerSooners7]

That’s a fine looking chub you got there! That Ranch Rider jalapeño ranch water is awesome. 😎

[@mikefrazier4308]

Just smo-fried a S-Bar from WallyWorld chub this weekend using some Blanco and Texas Sugar since it was mostly chicken content. What greatness, thanks Matt…keep preaching the good BBQ word!

[@FreeBird614Two]

Brings back memories of my childhood, we didn't cut the bologna as thick ( had to feed everybody ) and generally added a yellow mustard and onion along with mayo.... fried bologna is an all time favorite at our house!

[@user-ho1yn6ms7y]

Wouldn’t say I’m a huge bologna fan, but you’ve got a great idea for cheap. Definitely gonna give this a try!

[@jenjonnybravo]

It's fun to play with your chub 😅

[@andrewr2650]

I see what he did there HeHee

[@barrybebenek8691]

“…it’s fun to play with your chub….” 🤭 Will definitely be trying this cook. Looks delicious and takes me back. 👍🏼🇨🇦

[@michaelprice3785]

Matt. Should go on Chopped. Boloney is a sure winner.

[@PSSKDerby]

Great video Matt! Gotta try this, never thought of smoking bologna, but why not. Grew up and still love a fried or not fried sandwich with mayo. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@jean-pierreboudreau7269]

I did it many time and it's great .

[@shawnmoore7841]

Love it

[@williamtilton4469]

Never had a bologna sandwich, looks delicious.

[@dheezknutz]

If I really want to go old school with my bologna sandwich I use the cheapest bread. Mayo both sides. 2 slice of bologna with 1 slice of American cheese. Then the key is to put it in a baggie and then in a plastic lunch box. Then you just let it fester in a humid building until lunchtime when the cheese has basically melted. So good.

[@matthewculver9667]

Thanks Matt for another great video

[@fsmccollum]

Thinking back over 60 years to 1961, when riding my bike home from high school, I was the typical famished teenager halfway between lunch and supper. If I had a jingle in my jeans I'd stop at the corner grocery for a single *thick* slice of ring bologna. I'd fry that up in my grand mother's cast iron pan (which I still use at 78) and chow down with Wonder Bread and Miracle Whip. That would carry me until 6 PM when my parents got off work. To this day I still love fried bologna. My wife thinks I'm certifiable.

[@Nickel8237]

"It's fun to play with your chub.." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Woodwardsbbq]

“Spend a little bit of time on. All nice and slathered up.” 🤣🤣.

[@beerymr]

It is as much about the childhood memories as it is the taste.

[@Burntbranchcreekbees]

Awesome! Hate going to Walmart, but being forced to go now!

[@chriseh09]

Hello from South Carolina! Home of boiled peanuts, fried bologna sammiches and the banana sammich! Thick slice Fried bologna, slice of hoop cheese, mustard, white bread and eat up! Make you give back something you never stole!

[@brianf5766]

You "like to play with your chub" LMAO!! Love the subtle humor Matt🤣

[@jamesbailey9011]

My most prized possession is my cast iron pan that belonged to my Granny!!

[@jamesmoore5322]

Haven’t even watched and im all about it🤘🏼

[@Sweeneybbq]

I'll be making a stop by the store on the way home! Alabama Tenderloin Let's go!!! 😂

[@johnneitzert2382]

Ok Matt , we are headed to wal-Mart right now to buy us a chub to cook tonight. But here is the down fall we don't have a Levi that licks his own chub . Great inspiration you are .

[@keith5223]

Who doesn't love some fried bologna??

[@LarryWayne-x5v]

I'm going to have to try one of these! Being a bama guy, it won't be my first. RTR from Covington County Alabama!

[@andydemeo2437]

Gotta love fried Bologna. Im gonna have to try that.

[@yokesBL]

Fan of bologna as well. Gold top cheers!

[@JonBooks]

Thanks for sharing! Great Stuff!

[@arniecribbjr.6718]

Best sandwich ever!

[@BLP-BrianLucasProject]

I grew up in WV and Eat Well bologna from SS Logan was a staple in our house. Love fried bologna sandwich with cheese and a fried egg. Love cold bologna sandwich with mustard and Snyders potato chips on it. My Mom also made us bologna salad sandwiches which were great. My wife and I now have her old grinder she used back in the 70s-80s to make the bologna salad for ourselves. After watching this I'll be smoking a chub soon.

[@MrCatfish1973]

Man Matt I make smoked bologna burgers on a regular . I like your vodoo seasoning on them with a slice of pepper jack, yummy.

[@MaxFeken]

I grew up on fried bologna (with a slice of melted American cheese and mustard). For my Mom, this was a step up as she used to eat lettuce and mayonnaise only sandwiches or at least that's what she told me :)

[@skwerlee]

Looks delicious!!!

[@trevordouglas6450]

I have made this several times. My family and friends love it. I like the Texas Sugar on it personally but that is just me.