Smoking Peanuts

[Technopauper]

Was making a batch of bacon and thoughts I'd try some peanuts.

Mixed roasted salted (out of shell) peanuts with some peanut oil and rub mixture and laid flat on a mat and smoked with apple for about an hour at 220 DegF

Took them out and they tasted like licking an ashtray so thought I'd do like you do with cheese and let it kind of mellow in a ziploc bag. Wife complained of them smoking out the pantry so they're now in the garage .......for a week now

Question is will this work or have I wasted time and peanuts or will this turn into something marvellous ?

Rob

[pokermeister]

Never smoked peanuts, but the potato chips I smoked took 5 weeks to 'age', and they were fantastic. I will have to try peanuts.

[devo]

I did olives once, took almost 6 months to mellow out. So ya just give them time and they should get better.

[tskeeter]

Tech, I haven't tried peanuts, but I smoked about five of those big Costco containers of cashews last fall.  (Used apple, don't remember off the top of my head how long, but between 1 and 2 hours.)  Like you, I didn't care for them fresh off the smoker.  They sat around the house for a week, then I sent some with my Dad as he headed to MN for a visit with relatives.  Dad took them to a clan gathering about a week after leaving our house, so they had aged a couple of weeks.  The Norwegians were a bit cautious about those smoked nuts.  (I don't understand that.  They eat lutefisk, for heaven's sake!)  Finally a couple of brave souls tried a nibble.  And went back to the buffet table for a refill.  Shortly after, there was a steady steam of folks wolfing down smoked cashews and almonds.

My rules of thumb for smoked nuts.

Edible in a week.

Better in two.

Four's the goal.  Ready to serve to people you want to impress.

A few months doesn't hurt the flavor, either.