PREPARATION and HOW TO SMOKE CHEESE:
The way to make smoked cheddar cheese or any smoked cheese is to
cold smoke the cheese. Cold smoking is how to make smoked cheese
and is nothing more than smoking food in a smoker without the
addition of heat. You don't even need a smoker, just a box and
it can even be a cardboard box. Place cheese on the grill of
your smoker or on an elevated grill inside the box. Do not use
any heat in the smoker it even helps to put some ice inside.
Start the SmokePistol or GrillKicker™ supplying smoke into
the smoker and watch to make sure that the temperature does not
exceed 90 degrees F. This will cause the cheese to melt. Don't
let the smoke blow directly onto the cheese just let it fill the
box or smoker and surround it. Smoke cheese for at least 2 hours
to taste.
Here's how to smoke cheese without
a smoker.
This is a
simple setup to smoke cheese without a smoker. You just need a
cardboard box, a cookie sheet, a couple of cooling racks, a
couple of soda cans and a GrillKicker™ with about 2-4
cartridges.
First take 2 or 4 empty soda cans
and fill them about 3/4 full of water and freeze. ( This is not
necessary but it helps keep the cheese cold while smoking.)
Place the cookie sheet on a table in a well ventilated area and
put a cooling rack on top of the cookie sheet. Place the
GrillKicker™ on top of the cooking rack and put the soda cans
on top of this cooling rack as well. Place the second cooling
rack on top of the soda cans.
The pictures below show the cold smoking setup for smoking cheese.
Place cheese on top of the top
cooling rack. You can smoke several types of cheese at the same
time. Now light the
GrillKicker™. The picture below shows cheese
being cold smoked.
Cover the cheese with a cardboard
box and let it smoke. After 1/2 hour start another
GrillKicker™
cartridge and let smoke for about 1-2 hours changing cartridges
as necessary.
That's real smoked cheese the easy
way.
