Smoking Meats
Smoking meat is the process of flavoring, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to the smoke from burning or smoldering plant materials, most often wood. Meats and fish are the most common smoked foods, though cheeses, vegetables, are popular items to smoke as well.
In North America, hickory, mesquite, oak, pecan, alder, maple, and fruit-tree woods such as apple, cherry and plum are commonly used for smoking meats. Other fuels besides wood can also be employed, sometimes with the addition of flavoring ingredients. Chinese tea-smoking uses a mixture of uncooked rice, sugar, and tea, heated at the base of a wok. Some North American ham and bacon makers smoke their products over burning corncobs. Peat is burned to dry and smoke the barley malt used to make whiskey and some beers.
Historically, farms in the western world included a small building termed the smokehouse where meats could be smoked and stored. This was generally well-separated from other buildings both because of the fire danger and because of the smoke emanations.
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Loss of a member and friend.
BigArm Terry
July 1953 - June 2009
Prayers from the Smoked-Meat community to his family and friends. God Speed Terry.
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The Monthly Contest Winner
Seboke
Cindo de Nachos
Half Pulled Smoked Pork and half Shredded Smoked Beef Chuck over deep-fried tortilla wedges dusted with Cajun spice and shredded Monterey Jack cheese , smothered in warm Queso dip, topped with chopped green onions and fresh jalapeno slices, with sour cream, guacamole, habaneras
and home-made chunky salsa on the side.
Seboke wins a $50 Visa gift card..
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July Contest.
The July contest theme will be Fatties & ABT's. Forum members send in your BEST PlATED pic of your smoked meal. You may use props if you feel they are needed. Pics need to be no less than 800x600 in size.
The winner will be given a $50 Visa debit card. It is accepted anywhere. Other prizes may be added as the month goes. All entries need to be emailed in by midnight June 28th. All contest pics will be posted in a poll form for members to vote on. There is no cost to enter other than being a member of the Smoked-Meat Forums and thats Free!
So put your thinking caps on and have fun.
Good Luck!