Smoke time..

[smokiedoug]

This is probably going to depend on your smoker and personal preference but how long do you apply smoke during your cook? Me personally just the first half of cook time.

 

[linguica]

I will continue to add smoke until I'm satisfied as to color and apparent flavor.

 

[smokiedoug]

I recently went to a holiday party ( tis the season for free food) that another company had that's in the same line of work as me and at the worst bbq I think I've ever had. The ribs, pork and chicken were all over smoked. It tasted liked liquid smoke. I think the issue was his smoker mostly. It was so big and only having a firebox with no other heat source he had to put so much wood in it to get his temps up.

 

[rollin smoke]

I think it depends on the cut or type of meat your smoking. Chicken for example takes the smoke flavor very easily where a Boston butt requires more. With chicken i add smoke every 45min to an hour. Usually mesquite. But when i smoke a butt...especially a larger one...i try to keep a low smoke with cherry or hickory on it for the whole duration.

 

[smokiedoug]

I think it depends on the cut or type of meat your smoking. Chicken for example takes the smoke flavor very easily where a Boston butt requires more. With chicken i add smoke every 45min to an hour. Usually mesquite. But when i smoke a butt...especially a larger one...i try to keep a low smoke with cherry or hickory on it for the whole duration.

This is true you can make chicken taste like anything:)

 

[timberjet]

Doesn't sound like it was too smokey, more like it was sooty bitter. Was his smoker billowing white smoke the whole time? The type of wood and the type of meat play a large part in that question. Plus some people like it more smokey tasting than others. Me I say smoke the whole time. I mostly use Apple wood since I live in the Apple state and it's everywhere and free.

 

[smokiedoug]

It looked like a freight train and the firebox was so full of wood flames were all over the meat. He was trying to cook too much food way to fast for all the people. Timing is everything when you throw a party and bbq is the main dish. He needed a gameplan. They are having a Christmas party next Friday, guess I'll see how round 2 goes.