Smoking It can often seem like a challenge to make at home, but with a little creativity it is possible to adapt household equipment and make incredible dishes with the flavor and aroma of natural smoke. Smoking with an air fryer, is it possible?
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Duck breast cooked at low temperature, sous vide style (without the use of a vacuum sealer) and cold smoked. It's a delicious recipe, the flavor of the smoked duck breast is very good. The process is easy to execute. The breast was packed in a plastic food bag, removed as much air as possible, closed with string and cooked at 80ºC for one hour. Cold smoking was done using a common barbecue, with apple sawdust over the embers.
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The smoking process preserves and adds flavor to food. Hams, bacon, salmon, herring and oysters are often smoked. It's important to make a distinction between smoking for preservation (cooking with smoke) and smoking for texture and flavor. Generally, there are three different methods of smoking foods: hot smoking, cold smoking, and applying liquid or powdered smoke.
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Eisbein or Pork Knuckle is a typical German dish and can be fried, boiled, roasted or smoked. In all preparations, it undergoes salting and dry seasoning or immersion brine, which may or may not contain curing salt. Continue reading Eisbein Joelho de porco assado e defumado
It is possible and very simple to smoke using a barbecue. Preferably use a grill that already has a lid or, if your grill is open, use an object to trap part of the smoke inside the grill. It is necessary for part of the smoke to escape so that there is a flow and the fire is not completely extinguished. Continue reading Como defumar na churrasqueira?
My first artisanal bacon It was quite simple, I used the most basic recipe possible, both in terms of ingredients and process. It was good, but with a mild, delicate flavor, a little far from the intensity of the bacon we are used to these days. This time I made the bacon using natural smoke flavoring and some additional ingredients to give it a more intense flavor. Continue reading Bacon caseiro com aroma de defumação
Firstly, the wood must be dry, rigid/dense, without bark and not contain resin or other chemicals such as varnish. Burning the resin and chemicals used to treat wood can generate components that are dangerous to health. Continue reading Quais madeiras usar para defumar alimentos
Sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite, also known as curing salts, are preservative food additives widely used in the food industry, they can be used together or alone. They have a very similar chemical composition. Precisely for this reason, many people get confused when deciding which of the two is best used when preparing preserves or meats that will require periods of curing, smoking, fermentation or extending their shelf life for later consumption. The difference in the chemical composition of these two additives is just one oxygen atom, sodium nitrite (NaNO2) has two oxygen atoms, while sodium nitrate (NaNO3) has one more oxygen atom. Continue reading Sais de Cura Nitrito e Nitrato de sódio
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