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Smoking a wheel of cheese
See der Rabbits, Iowa
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I am no expert, but I would imagine the smoke would penetrate enough. I have done probably 10 blocks of cheese and always get uniform flavor. I know a block is not nearly as large as a wheel, but I would think it would be the same. Few questions:
What is your smoking setup?
AMS?
What tpye of pellets and how long you smoking?
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Chubbs said:
I am no expert, but I would imagine the smoke would penetrate enough. I have done probably 10 blocks of cheese and always get uniform flavor. I know a block is not nearly as large as a wheel, but I would think it would be the same. Few questions:
What is your smoking setup? I have recently been using my old W kettle but I have an XL BGE which I have used several times. Both seem to get about the same intensity of flavor when smoking blocks.
AMS? A perforated home built that is similar to the AMS tray.
What type of pellets and how long are you smoking? I am using pellets made from only apple wood, not the Traeger which are a mix of oak and apple. I usually smoke for about 3 hours on the blocks, then heat seal and age for a couple of weeks.
A poor widows son.
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Smoke is able to permeate through a lot of materials, so a wheel of cheese will definitely get a smokey flavor...just keep the temp around 90 degrees or less for 2-3 hours and use apple wood if possible...yummy...
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Do an experiment. Take a block of cheese from the store. Smoke it. Then let it rest a while. Then, wearing food handling gloves, cut it in half. Then carefully cut a chunk out of the center. Take off the food handling gloves to make sure no smoke flavor has come off onto your fingers. Taste the sample from the center. See how much smoke flavor you have. Use that to judge how you think the wheel will turn out and then either cut it up or not accordingly.
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I have cold smoked quite a bit. I would say the wheel of cheese would not smoke evenly. If you are OK with that then go for it. The issue is that some of the cheese is not smoked at all, some is oversmoked. Equilateral pieces smoke the best, to my opinion.
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Your wives boss sounds like a dirtbag
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thetrim said:Your wives boss sounds like a dirtbag
A poor widows son.
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Cut it up that way he will have good incentive to leave you a wedge.Dunedin, FL
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I have decided to play it safe and cut it into wedges for smoking. I know from past experience that will work and not have to worry about the outcome. If he chooses he can reassemble it for display after it's done.A poor widows son.
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It was 55° this morning which is unusual for Iowa in August so the Baby Swiss wedges went into the Egg. Smoked with apple chips using the soldering pen method with an ice tray below the cheese as the outside temperature was rising. It came out very well other than a couple of wedges that fell over and got bent a bit. It won't change the flavor a bit. I am very happy how it came out. Thanks to everyone that contributed.A poor widows son.
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Was this the cheese for the boss. Your OP said white cheddar. In any event, glad it worked out for you!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, "spa-Peggy" is kind of like spaghetti. I'm not sure what Peggy does different, if anything. But it's the one dish she's kind of made her own.____________________Aurora, Ontario, Canada
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My mistake. Yes it is for him. I didn't read the label when the wife brought it home and she mentioned it was cheddar and I saw it was very light colored. I saw the label when cutting it. She is a naturalized American and cheese is typically foreign to her Taiwanese culture. When I met her family 21 years ago, I was surprized by the general lack of fresh dairy products in their supermarkets, they had mostly canned and condensed milk that I saw. It had improved considerably when I last visited, but cheese is still an expensive delicacy to most of them and actually not often to their taste.
A poor widows son.
See der Rabbits, Iowa
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