Overdoing it with smoked ingredients?

[dj mishima]

I am probably going to smoke pickles for sandwiches pretty soon.  I'm probably going to be making sandwiches or burgers with them.  This should coincide with the 4 week mark of my first smoked cheese batch.

My question is this.  Do you think too many smoked ingredients would be overkill?  Example, smoked meat with smoked cheese and smoked pickle sandwich or using cold smoked spices in a rub.  I suppose it would be a matter of taste.  I guess I'll find out soon, but I am wondering if it would be too much.

 

[pgsmoker64]

Like you said DJ, it's a matter of taste.

I like to use smoke to enhance the flavor of foods and I do believe that there can be too much of a good thing.

Just my opinion though...I think if you smoke everything on the sandwich you won't be able to distinguish one part from another and you remove the layer of flavors that you try to build in a sandwich.

Have fun with it!

Bill

 

[s2k9k]

I think you need to smoke the bread too! :biggrin:

 

[dj mishima]

I think you need to smoke the bread too!

Ha ha.  Very funny! 

But, the flour for the homemade bread perhaps that's a different story... lol 

 

[smker]

probly not, depends on the people tho,   do they know its mostly smoked meats?,   if they do there there to sample it all,   been to alot of wild game feeds where its mostly all smoked.

 

[smoke happens]

I think it's really easy to be overdoing it on smoked ingredients. I love smoked food, but when you start having multiple ingredients or multiple dishes in the same meal get smoked it can be too much for a lot of folks. Also, I think the more smoked ingredients you are eating at one time sometimes takes away value from the hard work on the ingredients you did smoke. If you are able to distinguish a smoked ingredient or two from the rest of the ingredients (i.e. the cheese on a sandwich) then you are really going to appreciate it. If the cheese, pickle, bread, meat, etc are all smoked then it's just going to taste liked a smoked sandwich and not a sandwich with really good smoked meat or cheese. That's not necessarily a bad thing for some folks, some really like it all smoked all the time. Now with that said, I love to make sandwiches with my smoked cheese and my smoked CB sliced up thin like lunch meat, so as mentioned earlier it all boils down to personal taste preferences. I find that I enjoy smoked food much more then the rest of my family, so I have to be careful how much I throw at them before they get sick of it.

 

[Bearcarver]

DJ,

I like just about everything smoked.

Mrs Bear likes very few things smoked.

Out of everything you mentioned, the only thing I wouldn't smoke would be the pickles.

And I LOVE smoked salt!!!

Bear

 

[roller]

I smoked some Pepper not long ago...I have heard of some bread makers smoking their flour..

 

[buggerritt]

Smoke the mayo

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