To smoke meat start by soaking mesquite hickory or other wood chips in some water.
Wood to smoke meat with.
Then calculate your cooking time by checking your recipe.
And while meats are the most popular food to smoke you can also smoke nuts cheeses vegetables and more.
Smoking wood plays a role in the flavor and the color of the meat it also forms a bark or crust on the meat in general mild woods are good for fish and poultry medium fruit woods are best for poultry or pork and strong woods hold up against dark red meat flavors.
Additionally soaking your wood means that you won t get as sharp of a smoke flavor to your meat.
Wrong choice of wood might result in bad taste of food which will make the smoking a failure.
The wood often comes as wood chunks wood chips or pellets wood chunks allow a steady slow release of smoke while wood.
The best way to use these different forms of wood will depend on your situation.
Mesquite wood is the best wood for smoking dark meats that can stand up to the strong flavor of mesquite such as texas style brisket wild game meat duck lamb and tex mex barbacoa try mesquite coals for grilling steaks vegetables and other quick cooking flavorful foods.
Think of smoking woods as existing on a spectrum from mild to strong.
Wood chunks will burn slowly and release smoke over a long period of time.
Once they are saturated place them an aluminum foil packet and and preheat your smoker to around 200 220 f.
Knowing the type of wood that you use for smoking meat is an art and one that you should master if you want your meat smoked perfectly.
A wood that is too heavy with the smoke will almost certainly ruin the lamb as it s quite a mild meat.
The right type of wood makes a very important element of smoking meat right next to time and temperature.
The type of wood you use will vary based on what you are smoking.
Depending on what you smoke you need to pick the right type of wood so that it perfectly matches the type of meat of your choice.
Wood chips will burn hot and fast and give off smoke in a quick burst.
The first thing to consider is what kinds of wood to use based on how overpowering the smoke they put out is.
The best flavor comes from a nice even coating of smoke and using dry wood will create too much aroma at one time.
The heaviest smoke we d go to is oak again but we ve had the most success with apple.
