What is a BBQ smoker?
These are the questions this page will answer. What is smoked food ? Smoked food is food that is flavored with smoke created by burning wood. Not just any wood but typically wood from fruit and nut trees like Apple, Alder, Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Mesquite, Oak, Black Walnut, Pecan etc. You cannot use wood from all trees because pine trees and others will create a foul taste and can even be poisonous. Smoked food does not have to be cooked food. Smoked bacon, cold smoked salmon or Lox, fish, beef jerky and smoked cheese are some examples. These foods are cold smoked which means they are smoked without any heat. This is difficult because you need fire to create smoke and this causes heat. Cold smoking can easily be done with the SmokePistol however because that is one of the things it was designed to do. The SmokePistol doesnt produce enough heat to cook food but does produce plenty of smoke to flavor food. Also, the heat generated by the smoking wood in the SmokePistol is outside the sm
