- Sep 21, 2012
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Hi folks
Hope I am posting in the correct forum.
I want to test a smokedaddy, but I do not know if it is usable for me, since I can not get pellets or wood chips in Norway. I can get some Weber chips, but for approx $14 for 1Kg.
Will the smokedaddy perform well with rice-grain sized chips? I can get either that, or plain sawdust, very fine grained.
What about creosote in the SD, is it sorted these days? I know old smoking setups used a stone built "chimney" between the fire and the smokehouse, and this chimney was supposed to contain a lot of rough edges and cliffs, wich the creosote would attach to, before it hit the smokehouse. Anyone tried this? I am using a aluminium flexible pipe (15") to achieve some of that effect.
Some history:
Earlier i tested a Bradley, but the price and availability of bisquettes and what i considered bad performance, made me sell it. Then i read about white vs blue smoke...
I proxyed three Amazen smokers trough my uncle in the US, and tought everything would be fine, but i was disappointed. It was difficult to get it running, I even added a small fan to give it air. If I eventually got it running it would not produce the colour or taste i would like on the meats, it seems strange to me to have bacon without some of the yellow hue on the outside :P It does however seem that the Amazen wants only fine fine grained dust, not rice grained or even a mix.
In Norway the common woods are beech,alder and branches of juniper, or even some birch, but i have yet to find any in chunk sizes, except the expensive Weber...
I have a refrigerator setup, nothing fancy. I prefer cold smoking bacon/sausage, so in summer the fridge is actually running, to keep the temp down. If sausages or other stuff require precooking i do this sous vide, to not loose any flavor. I do not yet have enough moisture to do a hot smoke without getting a hard outer on the meat...
Any ideas for the best approach? I can not tend it all the time, but after I almost burned down the back yard, I need something pretty safe :P I was hoping the SD could provide that, and i can apply heat and moisture with other equipments.
Regards
--
Kim
Hope I am posting in the correct forum.
I want to test a smokedaddy, but I do not know if it is usable for me, since I can not get pellets or wood chips in Norway. I can get some Weber chips, but for approx $14 for 1Kg.
Will the smokedaddy perform well with rice-grain sized chips? I can get either that, or plain sawdust, very fine grained.
What about creosote in the SD, is it sorted these days? I know old smoking setups used a stone built "chimney" between the fire and the smokehouse, and this chimney was supposed to contain a lot of rough edges and cliffs, wich the creosote would attach to, before it hit the smokehouse. Anyone tried this? I am using a aluminium flexible pipe (15") to achieve some of that effect.
Some history:
Earlier i tested a Bradley, but the price and availability of bisquettes and what i considered bad performance, made me sell it. Then i read about white vs blue smoke...
I proxyed three Amazen smokers trough my uncle in the US, and tought everything would be fine, but i was disappointed. It was difficult to get it running, I even added a small fan to give it air. If I eventually got it running it would not produce the colour or taste i would like on the meats, it seems strange to me to have bacon without some of the yellow hue on the outside :P It does however seem that the Amazen wants only fine fine grained dust, not rice grained or even a mix.
In Norway the common woods are beech,alder and branches of juniper, or even some birch, but i have yet to find any in chunk sizes, except the expensive Weber...
I have a refrigerator setup, nothing fancy. I prefer cold smoking bacon/sausage, so in summer the fridge is actually running, to keep the temp down. If sausages or other stuff require precooking i do this sous vide, to not loose any flavor. I do not yet have enough moisture to do a hot smoke without getting a hard outer on the meat...
Any ideas for the best approach? I can not tend it all the time, but after I almost burned down the back yard, I need something pretty safe :P I was hoping the SD could provide that, and i can apply heat and moisture with other equipments.
Regards
--
Kim
