How to Smoking (cooking)

What You Need to Know

Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food, particularly meat, fish and tea, by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood.

Steps

1. 1.

   Scottish smoked salmon (Scotland): Preservation and flavor enhancement

2. 2.

   Chinese lapsang souchong tea (China): Drying and flavoring tea leaves

3. 3.

   German Rauchbier (Germany): Smoking malt for distinctive beer flavor

The Science

Primary Reaction

Maillard Reaction

Common Mistakes