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Tonight decided to be a little daring, chicken breast marinaded in special sauces and spices, stuffed with smoked cheese and wrapped in streaky bacon and into the smoker, so Smoked Chicken Cordon Bleus!Clap




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Cooking in side tonight ,man cave is flooded.Keep it up
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Come out premo, so good am doing some more right nowClap


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No pics today but I did discover that my fire extinguisher works really well at putting out the flaming wooden supports in my smoker... Embarrassed.

Managed to save the leg of lamb I was smoke roasting in there tho, very tasty it turned out too Big smile

Next upgrade to the smoker will be METAL supports...
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Tonight's entrée smoked mussels drizzled in melted butter and chopped smoked garlic and spiced piripiri.

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Can you run us through your mussel smoking process Catchalot? are they raw going into the smoker? how long, and are they just hot smoked?
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As above....
With my flame that high my temps would be over 120 C
Also notice u dont have a top on the cake tin / chips???
?I have found if I dont have the top on I get more ash....with on a tiny bit.. maybe a teaspoon after a 6 hr smoke.
I find ash gives a bitter taste....
Got a smoke on at the moment....
Have been experimenting with flavours in the water (doesnt work) ....on the fish works... but want hint to enhance the original fish, not taste of.. if u know what I mean?
So this time added a bit of rum to the fish  salt/ sugar marinate.....
Have u ever used those cooking essences in the little bottles? and if so how much /where?
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Yes they are raw, melted butter and garlic/piripiri mixture brushed on, smoker bought up to about 130deg just to heat the sawdust until it is smoking and then I turn it down and let it gently smoke away at 70deg for about two hours, so not hot smoked, next time I will do it for a lesser time as they were a little over done, but nevertheless tasted absolutely delicious!

Nothing difficult or rocket science, experiment a bit until you are happy with it, but I wouldn't smoke it too hot as they will dry out too quickly. 

I used an old cake tin purely as it is bigger than the tray that comes with the smoker and lasts longer, I haven't found I need a lid with holes on top of it yet...
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home made chilli sauce over mussels . place a little on shell then mussel on top more sauce over top and smoke. eat away but put sum in plastic bag and into the fridge over nite more smokie flavour. lunch for work or brekie .
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Originally posted by EditB EditB wrote:



Next upgrade to the smoker will be METAL supports...
Probably too late - but I had the same problem and got some stainless steel folded up to cover the (rather badly burnt) timber frame. So far so good (six years?)
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I used an old cake tin purely as it is bigger than the tray that comes with the smoker and lasts longer, I haven't found I need a lid with holes on top of it yet...
I believe the idea of the lid is to restrict the oxygen, which then forms charcoal rather than burn to ash.. The burn of charcoal is a cleaner burn, the process of charcoal to ash is a hotter burn giving off far more chemicals and bitter taste from them.

even just a plate over the top with holes will do the job
Going back to my post re cake tin above...in practice I dont put the lid right on as its a hasstle to lift the heat distorted metal to check the chips on a long cold smoke...
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Al, next time you do mussels, try a mixture of Tabasco Chipotle sauce and butter at a ratio of 1 Tbsp sauce to 50g butter.Thumbs Up< id="adlesse_unifier_magic_element_id" style="display: none; ">


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Master foods teriyaki marinade very nice on mussels as well.
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Cold smoked some cheese for after dinner, and since I was only doing a couple of wedges I fired up the venturi and used the beer box worked a treat, cold smoked (pear) for 4+ hours

also did some maple syrup in a couple of small trays - wow! That was amazing on the bacon the next morning! The whole family smashed it and demanded more


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Originally posted by Unclejake Unclejake wrote:

Originally posted by EditB EditB wrote:



Next upgrade to the smoker will be METAL supports...
Probably too late - but I had the same problem and got some stainless steel folded up to cover the (rather badly burnt) timber frame. So far so good (six years?)
All fixed now, the smoker is an old dishwasher so is s/s internal, I was too hasty and used untreated timber for the rack struts and supports. Have replaced them with angle ali now
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Arbroath Smokies. Had some on a return trip to Scotland.. Hot smoked Haddock, maybe blue cod would work? They also do wicked hot smoked salmon.
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All fixed now, the smoker is an old dishwasher so is s/s internal, I was too hasty and used untreated timber for the rack struts and supports. Have replaced them with angle ali now
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Haha my smoker is also a dishwasher works pretty well just finished a batch of Goose jerky in it and the results were pretty good will not be buying jerky from now on
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Time to soak the Beef Jerky marinade overnight before a visit to the smoka but that will be 2mros choreWink


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Did two soaks one a typical steak marinade with spices and a little chilli the other a slight sweet concoction including pomegranate molasses and manuka honeyThumbs Up

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My jerky I dont cut till smoked and cooled down.. around 5 hrs  @ 45/55 c and last 20 mins 70/75c
Have found soaking in marinate for anout 2rs is all thats require because of the thickness of the meat.
yeah the molasses certainly gives abetter flavour/ sweetness than sugars.
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