Well after seeing all the recent posts on smoking cheese I thought what the heck why not. I have never done it before so I jumped in both feet first, like I usually do.
I was at Sam's club and decided to see what they had for cheeses and they actually had some nice cheeses at reasonable prices so I grabbed a bunch.
We are having a cold front moving through with temps in the low 60's for highs, so I decided to get it started early. Added apple pellets to the amazn tube and put a pan with blue ice in ziplocs above it for smoke dispersion and cooling.
After 3 hours I pulled them, highest temp was 70ish so no oil leakage.
And this after resting in the fridge for 24 hours, although it appears that one of the colby jack pieces had a severe shrinkage issue.....Sue?
I just saw her snacking on it a few minutes ago, so it will not make it through the day, poor thing.....the cheese I mean.
So I spent the morning vacuum packing what was left....
Thanks for lookin'
Now off to the hopscotch chickens that I just threw on the REC TEC for tonight's dinner.
John
I was at Sam's club and decided to see what they had for cheeses and they actually had some nice cheeses at reasonable prices so I grabbed a bunch.
We are having a cold front moving through with temps in the low 60's for highs, so I decided to get it started early. Added apple pellets to the amazn tube and put a pan with blue ice in ziplocs above it for smoke dispersion and cooling.
After 3 hours I pulled them, highest temp was 70ish so no oil leakage.
And this after resting in the fridge for 24 hours, although it appears that one of the colby jack pieces had a severe shrinkage issue.....Sue?
I just saw her snacking on it a few minutes ago, so it will not make it through the day, poor thing.....the cheese I mean.
So I spent the morning vacuum packing what was left....
Thanks for lookin'
Now off to the hopscotch chickens that I just threw on the REC TEC for tonight's dinner.
John