Smoking anything occurred to me a year ago when reading confessionals. Since then, I've been wanting to try it, but not willing to put any money down for hardware. When I showed her Chris' blog, she said she doesn't need any special equipment and huffed at the idea of a big bird. Wifey has actually smoked bacon in the kitchen a few times. Instead of arguing with her, I started planning. And waiting... been waiting a long time for this.
Tonight (melodramatic pause) is Phase I.
Supply list:
- 2 cardboard boxes (free)
- 2 bbq grates (lying around)
- flexible aluminum duct (980 yen)
- 1 Captain Stag walnut smoke block (250 yen)
- handful of apple smoke chips (maybe 50 yen)
- 2 one kilo blocks of cheese (980 yen each)
- sticks to hold up the recycled grates
- trimmed concrete wire mesh (another 50 yen?)
- aluminum foil (sacrificed my good hat)
- metal bowl (recycled)
- newspapers
Think that's about it for what it takes to smoke 2 kilos of cheese. Could probably do more, but since this is the first run, we do what we can. Oh yeah:
