Smoked meat or fish are a delicacy for many people. And it's amazingly easy, to smoke yourself. So it's up to you to determine, what and how strong your smoked food should taste and and look for your ham, Your fish, Cheese or other foods for smoking yourself. And then you smoke straight away, it's not difficult.
It is best to use a garden smoker, in the garden or at the house. In addition, you only need shavings and incense mixtures, which you can get in specialist shops. Strong embers with corresponding smoke are required for smoking. This penetrates the smoked food and influences the smell and taste, the color and durability. The smoke aroma is different for the different types of wood used. Depending on the taste, beech is used, for example, birch, Oak, Alder and juniper used for smoking. It is best, They try different types of wood, to find your favorite variety.
A special feature, the smoker grill
In it you kill two birds with one stone. You can smoke as well as grill. All smoker grills basically consist of two interconnected chambers. The fire is kindled in one, in the other is the food to be smoked / grilled. With a sliding flap between the chambers, you can regulate the air supply and thus the heat. A thermometer is attached to the outside with which you can determine the internal temperature. The smoke supply can be precisely dosed through a kind of stove pipe in the second chamber. For example, do you want a strong smoke aroma, then close the ventilation flaps, if you want less smoke open one or more flaps. It is also possible to just grill, in which case you should use normal charcoal instead of wood. Who only rarely feels like it, to smoke something, could also convert a normal kettle grill into a smoker grill. In this case, smoke briquettes are used instead of charcoal or wood.