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over-smoking? and flavor??

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edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
i am new to the egg...been cookin for about two months...i add alot of wood chunks...my question is can you over smoke too much?[p]and nother question i have is...i was told that the egg develops its own flavor the longer you cook in it...i used a 9 x 9 TEFLON coated pan for indirect cooking...it all burned off (teflon)but i smoked some chicken legs tonight and they are beautiful...but the taste is very strong (smoke) falvor and pungent as well...was this a bad move and if so what do i do?
thankyou
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  • Morro Bay Rich
    Morro Bay Rich Posts: 2,227
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    stephen,
    First off ..... teflon should not be heated above 500 degrees or it starts to vaporize which ain't good for you. Best advice is NO TEFLON in the Egg.[p]Secondly .... chicken sucks up smoke to a greater extent than anything else so one has to go light with smoke with chicken.
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  • bobinaz
    bobinaz Posts: 44
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    stephen,[p]I sometimes only add one small wood chunk (maybe half the size of a bar of soap) to a bunch of chicken cooking on my large egg and I get all the smoke flavor I want. I do not soak the chunk either.
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  • Pdub
    Pdub Posts: 234
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    stephen,
    Make sure that you are letting the charcoal burn for a while before adding the food. The smoke should not be white, more of a blueish color. I made this mistake early on and will make the food taste bad . I started small with the smoke by adding small pieces of wood and slowly started adding more.
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