cooking pepperoni

[dorsets21]

i make 50# of pepperioni a week and at the mo,the problem is my bradley is not big enother so my ? is why do they cook them hanging and not flat, point is i have a big oven and could cook them flat in one shot but hanging i have to do it 15#batchs which is a pain in the ass

[dorsets21]

come on someone must know why you hang sausages and not cook them flat in the oven

[DiggingDogFarm]

Hanging is usually recommended to eliminate contact so that you get full smoke coverage.

Other than that, there's no reason you can't cook them lying flat.

[dorsets21]

so if i cold smoke in a box then i cook them it should be fine thanks for a quick answer

[the chorizo kid]

this thread is a little confusing to me. cooking flat seems the only possibility if you are talking about cooking, and not smoking. if you are talking smoking, then flat is do-able, but the rack holding things up will leave some kind of [in my opinion] unsightly marks. if you are talking about putting a flat pan full of a bunch of overlapping pepperoni into a smoky environment, i would not, because, as someone mentioned, the touching parts will not smoke properly.