jeudi 3 juillet 2014

Do Propane Smokers Actually Grill And Smoke Food?

By Robert Blackmore


Basically, propane is a reasonably clean fuel that produces dry and red hot heat when burned. It is also smokeless when burned. For generations, thus, cooks have found it useful for cooking food. And today, propane is used in countless barbecues around the nation.

Although it is a called a propane "smoker", it does not actually smoke the meat particularly if you are cooking using the regular method.

Most barbecue restaurants add moist wood chips to the propane flame which then produces smoke to "smoke" the meat, adding a great deal of flavor.

Barbecue experts are less likely to be satisfied by this method since they consider a smoker to be genuine only if it uses wood or charcoal. The genuine smoker also slowly cooks food for 10 to 12 hours at 180 to 250 degrees.

These days, grill dealers often label and sell propane gas grills as propane smokers. Unless you do plan to follow the cooking methods in barbecue restaurants, better choose the non-propane smoker.

However, the propane smoker does have several good qualities. It can actually produce good broiled or grilled food. The meat is roasted at temperatures that can reach up to 700 degrees, which is the ideal temperature for broiling meat. It gives the cook the same experience as when cooking with other types of grill.

It is also good for roasting a whole chicken at a smaller amount of time compared to cooking on charcoal grills. However, chicken roasted on a charcoal grill will definitely have a wood smoke flavor and scent.

It has always been the tradition that grilling and roasting be done on wood fires that imparts its smell and flavor to the cooked food. Propane smokers, no matter how hard people try, cannot really produce cooked food that can duplicate these characteristics.




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