1st cold smoked cheese!

[DieselTech]

Well we got a 59°f outside temp tonight so I decided to try to cold smoke a block of Colby jack cheese.

I got a grill box temp of 60.1°f soo hopefully it turns out. I made sure to handle cheese with food grade gloves to prevent hand oils & such of.

This is 2 hrs in on apple wood pellets in a 6" smoker tube. Think I will go 4 hours, then let rest & wrap in parchment paper for 2days & then vac seal for 4 weeks.

Lmao if I can wait that long.

 

[DieselTech]

I also cold smoked some dark chocolate chips for 1 hour, for some up coming smoked chocolate chip cookies. 1 hour might have been a touch much. But I think they will mellow out over the next 2 days. Stay tuned! For another thread.

 

[Hockeydudde]

Interested to see if the smoke comes through in the cookies.

 

[jcam222]

How did the cheese turn out? The chips are a cool idea

 

[KBFlyer]

Interesting idea about the chips for cookies. As for the cheese I find a temp of around 70*F works well. Also cutting the cheese into smaller pieces helps with all round penitration. 1-2 hours of smoke depending on how much you like the smoke taste. Letting it mellow out for a month also helps.

 

[DieselTech]

How did the cheese turn out? The chips are a cool idea

Well I had 1 Lil mistake, I had a couple drops of smoker condensation darken a couple spots on my block of cheese.

The cheese did not take on much color, but at 4.5hours on a smoke, it smells real smoky Now I gotta wait, to find out.

 

[DieselTech]

Interested to see if the smoke comes through in the cookies.

Well the cold smoked dark chocolate chips took on a bunch of smoke. They are smoky, smoky!

 

[DieselTech]

Interesting idea about the chips for cookies. As for the cheese I find a temp of around 70*F works well. Also cutting the cheese into smaller pieces helps with all round penitration. 1-2 hours of smoke depending on how much you like the smoke taste. Letting it mellow out for a month also helps.

Yeah I wrapped it in parchment paper, then after 2 days, I will vacuum seal it. To help it mellow out.