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Thuggin4Life
Cool thanks just trying to figure out tricks to the new smoker.
So the new smoker i have is a gas one(used to use a littlechief) and it has a water pan for steaming. Just had an idea. Can you add flavored water and have it add to te flavor of the meat or is it a waste of time. Like if i mixed in some sugars and spices to the water would it affect my meat or would the water evaporate and leave me a goey mess?
Yeah gonna try that for sure.
Pretty sure it'd just leave you a gooey mess that isn't going to add anything to the meat smoking. The solid molecules of whatever you put in there, aren't gonna evaporate.
So i have been smoking my fish for a few hours now thought i would share. I decided to try the apple juice in the water pan and so far so good. I brined them with about 2x as much brown sugar to salt and a few other spices with some other sauces out of the condiment shelf of the fridge. wet brined for about 36 hours then dried them with paper towels without rinsing. been adding chips every 1.5 hours and checking the water pan level so i don't crystalize the sugar in the apple juice. filled the water pan with an entire pitcher of juice made from concentrate. and this time I started out on the lowest setting and about 3 hours into it I bumped it up to halfway between low and med since it seem like the chips weren't burning quite as i like them to. Last time I ruined some fish by smoking on medium to medium high. I guess its just a learning process when you go from an electric little chief to a propane smoker. I'll post some pics when its one and let you guys know how it turns out.