Smoked Cheese!

[Smoking Piney]

I received my Amaze-N smoker pellet tray yesterday and it's COLD outside...........a great day to smoke some cheese. I have white cheddar, swiss, mozzerrella, and brie. I'm going to smoke with the apple pellets about 2 hours. The hard part will be staying out of it while it mellows in the fridge. :-D

 

[blazinfire]

well I did a 4 hour smoke when I smoked my cheese. Its been 1 week. I feel 4 hours was a little over kill. But when I was doing research everyone raved about 4 hours! After I did it, all I see is people recommending 2 hours? Whats up with that??!!!

I'll wait and see in 4 weeks what its like. I tried a piece this morning, if its anything like mine it will be easy to wait! It tasted like an ashtray haha! So now I'm more motivated to just leave it alone!

 

[Smoking Piney]

I figured I'd try 2 hours the first time out and see what I get. I definitely don't want to over-smoke it.

 

[Big George's BBQ]

Nice I like smoke cheese I use the Pro Q Smoke Generator to do cheese and fish

 

[jmed999]

I use 2 AMZN tubes smoking at the same time and go 6 hours. In my experience 2 hours doesn't give it a smokey color or enough smokey flavor.

 

[blazinfire]

hey, I also might want to add that I tried a piece at 4 days. I wanted to use a block of the cheese to examine how the cheese ages and mellows. at 4 days it was horrid! You can tell even 3 days later the smoke mellowed out a good bit, still tasted like an ashtray but I can tell its gonna be great! gonna think about doing a 2nd batch today! I should of bought the 6 inch tube smoker tho honestly! Not sure how the 12 inch tube will run with half pellets!

I know, I shouldn't be touching the cheese and letting it sit for several weeks! But I just love testing and checking the progress on stuff like this! lol

 

[Smoking Piney]

I'll peek at 2 hours. This thing is definitely putting out some smoke.

 

[daninnewjersey]

I figured I'd try 2 hours the first time out and see what I get. I definitely don't want to over-smoke it.

Shoprite has a great sale on 8 oz Shoprite brand cheeses....like $1.50 or around there....

 

[Smoking Piney]

Shoprite has a great sale on 8 oz Shoprite brand cheeses....like $1.50 or around there....

LOL! That's where I bought this cheese.

 

[blazinfire]

I'll peek at 2 hours. This thing is definitely putting out some smoke.

Did you buy a combo that came with pellets? If not where did you buy your pellets? I need to buy a big bag of hickory pellets. Seems like hickory will be my most used for cheese smoking. I was real surprised at how much smoke the tube smoker put out!

Keep us posted! I'd like to see the finished product!

I use 2 AMZN tubes smoking at the same time and go 6 hours. In my experience 2 hours doesn't give it a smokey color or enough smokey flavor.

Well that makes me feel a lot better when it comes to me over smoking my cheese! But like I said above It's really starting to mellow out compared to a few days ago. So I'm guessing a 4 week aging will do the trick!

 

[Smoking Piney]

blazinfire, I got the combo with pellets. I'll post pics when the cheese comes off.

 

[Smoking Piney]

And done!

I was concerned about over smoking the cheese, so I pulled it at 2 hours. My guess was good as to how much pellet to use. It was close.

The brie picked up a nice patina. Food Saver says vacuum packing brie is a no-no due to anaerobic bacteria, so it got plastic wrap and put into its container. The rest was vacuum sealed and put away.

Now, to stay out of it! :-D

 

[cowgirl]

Those are looking good Piney, I can almost taste them from here! Yum!

 

[Smoking Piney]

Thanks, cowgirl!

Just 2 to 3 more weeks until I can sample. My wife may have to hide this from me. :-D

 

[SeanBBQ]

I will need to do this one day. Wife and I love some smoked cheese. Looking good there. I think Ill follow your 2 hour smoke time. Let us know how it turns out when you taste it.

 

[Smoking Piney]

Will do, Sean.

My wife is picking up more cheese today for me to smoke. May as well take advantage of the cold weather. :-D

 

[speed2486]

Looks great Piney! And remember - STAY AWAY FROM THE CHEESE!!!!

 

[blazinfire]

Will do, Sean.

My wife is picking up more cheese today for me to smoke. May as well take advantage of the cold weather. :-D

Nice color on that cheese! Can't wait to find out how the swiss and mozzarella turns out!! I was thinking of smoking those two cheeses on my batch but I didn't know the melting point and I wanted to start with something simple.

I was thinking of doing a batch of cheese this weekend. Gonna be in single digits to low teens for the next couple days! Only problem is I've tried apple smoked cheese from a store I didn't like it! So I'm scared to use the apple pellets. Not sure how cherry will work, I will not use mesquite for cheese. At least right now! So I haven't decided if I wanna order more hickory pellets or choose apple or cherry.

I will need to do this one day. Wife and I love some smoked cheese. Looking good there. I think Ill follow your 2 hour smoke time. Let us know how it turns out when you taste it.

I would start with 2 hours IMO. I started with 4, as I said in an earlier post I tried it at 1 week today. Well when I resealed it, my vac seal didn't hold. Well I figured why not slice a couple small slices before resealing it. After eating those slices I can safely say when 4-6 weeks rolls around a 4 hour smoke will be awesome! But that all depends on your personal preference. I will enjoy the extra smoke flavor. Some, maybe a lot of people might not.

 

[Smoking Piney]

Yeah, mesquite would be way too strong. My next cheese smoke will be cherry to try it out.

I need to get some pecan and alder for a mellow smoke.

 

[blazinfire]

Yeah, mesquite would be way too strong. My next cheese smoke will be cherry to try it out.

I need to get some pecan and alder for a mellow smoke.

Good idea. I've been using pecan chunks in my WSM. I'm really liking the flavor I receive from it! So maybe I might pick up some pecan pellets as well. To Amazon I go!

I need to do some research on what else I can use this thing tube smoker for! Got any good ideas? I bet it would of been awesome when I was trying to "smoke" food on a propane grill hah! Trying to do that is the reason why I bought a smoker in the first place! Didn't work out real well!