Smoking (cooking)

Smoking is a treatment for food, to make it last longer. It is mainly used for meat and fish. The food which is either cured or salted is exposed to the smoke of a fire. This will reduce the amount of water by between ten and forty percent. It also changes the texture and adds flavour. It is not one of the most effective ways of adding any preservation

Smoking (cooking) Media

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  Meat hanging inside a smokehouse in Switzerland

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  A Montreal smoked meat sandwich

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  Hot-smoked chum salmon

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  Hickory-smoked country-style ribs

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  An example of a common offset smoker

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  A diagram of a typical upright drum smoker

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  A diagram of a propane smoker, loaded with country style ribs and pork loin in foil

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  An electric smoker with a slab of hot-smoked salmon inside

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  Various shapes of smoking racks