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| "COLD SMOKING" |
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| 2- Use a can that fits under the grill lid for your "Smoker ." and poke 3 or 4 holes near the bottom. |
| 3- A coat hanger makes a good handle for your can that stays cool to the touch. |
| 4- Using 4 to 6 charcoal pieces make a fire in the can positioned as shown. |
| 5- When the charcoal is glowing red hot throw a large handful of dry wood chips on top. |
| 6-Place the meat as you see here, and put the grill lid down to capture the billowing smoke. |
| 1- Place charcoal in the grill bed as if to make a fire, but DO NOT SPRAY OR LIGHT! |
| 7- Add a piece or two of charcoal and more chips every so often, as needed. Smoke long as you like. |
| 8- Half an hour of smoking gives good results, but longer is great, too. |
| 9- WHEN DONE remove the STILL RAW MEAT (now discolored by smoke) and put on a plate. |
| 10- Remove smoker can and grill grate and spray lighter on your waiting charcoal and do your thing! |
| This method adds smoke flavor without actually cooking the food |
| NOTE:You can freeze your freshly smoked RAW meat for a rainy day, and you'll be amazed at the outdoor flavor of your food when you cook the pre-smoked meat indoors to the serenade of thunder. |
| In larger elongated grills you can skip the smoker-can and simply lay your smoker fire to one end and away as far as possible from the raw meat to be smoked, same as above. I use a "Smoker Can" anyway. |
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| HINT: Little disposable tinfoil pans make great "smoker cans," and can be reused and later discarded. (It's all I use, these days. I make my charchoal fire for cooking in the larger foil pans, and that makes cleanup a snap! I get several uses from a pan, and then wad it up and trash charcoal ashes and all. I use foil pans to cook in, but then rinse them and put used pans to use on the bottom of the grill. I even wash them in the dishwasher after cooking use for storage purposes. Why waste 'em? |
| ATTENTION The preferred wood for smoking by professionals is OAK, not hickory or mesquite! ( NEVER use wet or damp wood.) |
| OAK CHIPS seem real hard tofind, so e-mail me at [email protected] if you come accross any. |
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