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Some outdoor cooks prefer barbecue while others prefer the slower method of smoking. While both methods have their advantages, many swear by the distinct flavor advantages of smoker cooking. While cooking with heated smoke will take considerably longer than with straight heat, it is a more flavorful way of cooking.
Typically, smoker cooking has an offset fire chamber, which provides a means of the heat and smoke from the burner to pass over and through the meat. The flame itself never comes into contact with the food and therefore will not burn it. Neither will the oils and juices that drip from the cooking meat ignite short bursts of flame that can cause flare ups and scorched food.
The type of wood used in smoker cooking also helps determine the flavor with most people using hickory to provide a heavy smoky flavor to the meat. Apple and pecan wood is sometimes added to lighten the wood smoke flavor and wood from fruit trees will make for a slightly sweeter flavor.
Smoker Cooking Not For The Impatient
When smoker cooking it must be realized that this type of cooking cannot be hurried. It is going to take time to properly cook your food in a smoker. On average, depending on the cut of your meat and temperature at which you maintain the grill, smoker cooking a four-pound piece of meat will take over two hours. By comparison, the same size slab on a conventional grill will take less than an hour.
There is no limit to the types of meat you can cook in a smoker, beef, pork, poultry and fish and there are many recipes available to offer instruction on how to prepare them all. Some of the more popular meats for smoker cooking are spare ribs, large fish fillets as well as beef briskets. A four pound whole chicken will take about four hours to be thoroughly cooked in a smoker. The best way to tell if the chicken is done is to insert a thermometer into the thick part of the bird without touching any bones and making sure it reads 165 degrees.
You can rub the chicken or other meat with spices to prepare it for smoker cooking and add other sauces during and after. If you a smoker cooking without an automatic turning device, you will need to turn it occasionally to ensure even cooking and browning.

I have a friend who lives in Australia, and we love to send food and other interesting items to each other. We try to send things that we can’t get in our own countries, and some of the things she has sent me were rather interesting. If you ever get the chance to try musk sticks straight from Australia, I urge you to turn heel and run away as fast as you can. If you want to know what they taste like, just go get a bottle of perfume and spray it in your mouth. If you like that, you’ll like musk sticks. Most stuff has been good though. I have sent many things that my friend likes, but her favorite by far was the BBQ sauce that I had sent her last year.
The BBQ sauce that I sent her was made in a city nearby, and was not really available anywhere else. You can get it in my region of my state, and it is somewhat famous in the area, but I knew she could not get it over there. I don’t know how much different it is from the BBQ sauce that she normally uses, but she emailed me excitedly to tell me that it was the best she had ever had, and she wanted to know when I could send her some more.
What struck me as funny was that she is a vegetarian – which I didn’t realize when I sent the BBQ sauce in the first place – but she still wanted more. She explained that they had used it on their veggies, and that it had been great for that purpose. She conserved as much of it as she could because she knew that I couldn’t afford to send her a bottle every month of the year. Though she does know that the more Tim Tams she sends me the more BBQ sauce she can get out of me.
She doesn’t know it yet, but I think I have found something to send her that she will really love. It is the same BBQ sauce that she loves, but what I have found is even better. There is a gift pack out for the holidays that includes that flavor and five others, all by the same company. She is going to be beside herself when she gets it. Each type of BBQ sauce is a different flavor and she can experiment to her hearts content.