In my experience, Alder is mild and provides to my taste the best smoked cheese. I have used Alder fine chips almost a very heavy sawdust. This always produces excellent Weber/amazn tray smoked cheese. My new MES40 has been a challenge but after several tries I have narrowed it down to produce great smoke cheese. I found Alder pellets but they burn fast with tons of smoke. I think removing the chip tray sounds like a great idea for air flow and reducing the depth of the pellets in the AMZN tray.
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Originally posted by gmotoman View PostKind of what I was thinking. Maybe stuff the tube smoker full off wet apple chips(which I have) and place on a couple of coals????
So far I've always cold smoked with oak chippings. Bought 20kg some years ago, still got about 10kg left. My smokevark runs for 16-18 hours on 1 lb of oak chippings/sawdust. And that's in a big old chargriller outlaw.
Looking at the colour of that cheese from 2 hours - yeah, way way too much smoke. Mine is nowhere near as dark after 4 hours.
Try only half filling the tube and then shake down lengthwise so it produces half the volume of smoke.
Or better yet, use sawdust rather than pellets and do the same.
I also add fresh bayleaves and sometimes pistachio shells to the sawdust. Slows the smoke generation down and adds extra flavour to the smoke.Made In England - Fine Tuned By The USAJust call me 'One Grind'
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This is my no heat cheese smoking rig. Typically use apple chips in the aux smoke generator. Temps inside run only 10 degrees over ambient. Never let me down. Smoke 1 to 3 hours depending on how hard and large the cheese is. I also like to through a couple of sticks of butter the last hour. Try smoked butter on corn on the cob and baked potatoes. Yum!
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Originally posted by Smoketologist View Post
This is my no heat cheese smoking rig. Typically use apple chips in the aux smoke generator. Temps inside run only 10 degrees over ambient. Never let me down. Smoke 1 to 3 hours depending on how hard and large the cheese is. I also like to through a couple of sticks of butter the last hour. Try smoked butter on corn on the cob and baked potatoes. Yum!
Smoked butter?? Oh...that has to kick ass.BBQ Eng.
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