How to make chip for smoking with your own hands

Those who like to smoke meat and fish independently need to know some nuances of all this processes, including - how to make chip for successful smoking.

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Select tree

Few people refuse to dishes from smoked products - aroma, taste quality at the highest level. Among other things, such products are longer stored much longer. It should be noted another advantage of smoking products with your own hands - no chemicals in cooking are not used, which means they will not bring any harm to the body. In addition, in such products, the minimum cholesterol content.

Smoking methods can be different, as well as technology, most importantly use the correct tools and chips. Let's talk about what wood you need to choose to prepare high-quality chips.

Before making chips for smoking, it is necessary to reflect and choose wood that is best used for the purposes under consideration. Here you can use the most different wood, most often choose:

apple tree
plum
cherries
apricot
grape branches
oak

Specialists suggest that the optimal version for the manufacture of chips is alder. Smoke exactly from such wood is very clean, and on its basis, products are obtained with a special brilliance.

If you want to make products after smoking a golden color, you can use ramp, linden or beech as chips.

It should be noted that the beech is very often used for the manufacture of chips, because the chips from this wood do not affect the taste of the product, which is very important in the smoking process.

The apple tree gives meat and fish sweet taste, and if you want to strengthen the fish fragrance, then you can prepare chip from Osh.

For gourmets, it is not at all difficult to determine the smoked taste, on which wood it was cooked. Some manage to add blackberry, mint or bay leaf during smoking to products (such recipes per amateur).

For chips, it is better not to use coniferous wood, because it can pass your bay dish, which you will smoke on the bore.

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Scrap harvesting

After you have chosen the wood that will suit you to smoke some products, you need to do the direct manufacture of chips. This can be done without any problems without any difficulty. The main thing in this process to pay attention to the quality of the workpiece. It is not recommended to use wood:

which was amazed by various pests
if there is a mold on wood
chemically processed

Now we'll figure it out in detail during the cooking process for smoking at home. First, prepare all the tools and materials that can be useful in the process:

ax (he should not be too big)
purified water
wood chock

Now, when, at hand, everything you need is proceeding with chips:

First you will need from the billet that you have prepared in advance, remove the bark.
The next step is to crush this wood (in this case, such strips should not be too thick).
Now these stripes will need to be tweed and make small rectangles of them with a magnitude of no more than 3 centimeters.
In the event that the manual method of grinding does not like you, you can use gasoline saw and electrical equipment of this type. We cut the plates of 3 cm high, and then chop them into small sins (but it will have to do it already with an ax).
It should be noted that a very important criterion in this process is precisely sizes that you will do, because in consequences it will affect the uniform formation of smoke and taste quality smoked product.

Chips should not be neither small, nor large, because in the case of the second option, the food cooked on the fire can turn out with the taste of Aria, so this factor should be borne in mind.
After the wood is crushed, it is necessary to soak it. To do this, lower it into clean water, soaking time will be 4 hours.
After the specified amount of time, the chip can already be pulled out and dry. It will be necessary to do it to the level of importance in 55-65%. Excessive dry chips will burn too intensively and quickly, which means that the amount of smoke will be minimal, which is not suitable for the process of high-quality smoking. If the chip will be too wet, then smoking will not be carried out at all evenly, which also affects the taste qualities of products.
If we talk about the perfect process of smoking, it should be carried out at 250 degrees temperature indicators. If the temperature is more, there will be some compounds in the smoke, which can be attributed to harmful. And only if you manage to make perfect sins, the smoking process will be held in due mode.

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Storage chips

When you made a high-quality chip, you will need to think about how to properly store this tree material, because they usually make quite a lot of blanks to have enough for a long time.

Optimal storage option: