Smoked a little cheese

[OU812]

My stash was gone so I grabbed some mild cheddar, mozzarella and  monterrey jack to throw in the smoker.







It is still pretty cold here so I didnt remove the smoke generator, just added some ice, really didnt even need the ice as the cabnet temp only got up to 68 F



Outta the smoker, the cheese didnt take on the color like it would if the cabnet temp was at 80 F







Got them all vac sealed and in the back of the fridge for the fun part, WAIT.

[NePaSmoKer]

Nice

Dont ya just love the color........now wait is right.

[OU812]

Might have to get more and do it again.  :D

[NePaSmoKer]

Might have to get more and do it again.  :D

Try some havarti

Good stuff

[OU812]

Might have to get more and do it again.  :D

Try some havarti

Good stuff

I'll look in the high dollar cheese isle.  ;D

[SoCalBuilder]

Never done cheese..... would the higher sort of brown the cheese? I would have thought that most of the color comes from the smoke itself.

[OU812]

For me when cold smoking if the cabnet temp is kept right at 80 the smoke penetration and color is better.

[bears fan]

Yummy!

Hey OU, how do you got your PID mounted on the side?  I'd like to do that.

[pensrock]

Yep I like the tower to be 80-90 degrees F for cheese.  :)

[Tenpoint5]

Yummy!

Hey OU, how do you got your PID mounted on the side?  I'd like to do that.

That's a sheet of metal that's bent and held on with some big magnets if I remember right

[OU812]

Yummy!

Hey OU, how do you got your PID mounted on the side?  I'd like to do that.

That's a sheet of metal that's bent and held on with some big magnets if I remember right

Yep.

Thats a piece of stainless steel we had laying around.

I put it in a press, bent it at a 90 then glued 4 magnets to the bracket and zip tied the PID to the bracket.

That way I can put the PID any were I need when smoking/cooking.

[ArnieM]

I favor the 80-85 range for a little color and nice flavor.

[OU812]

Thats what I was shootin for Arnie.

It was about 40 out side that day and I left the smoke generator hooked up figuring the generator would bring the cabnet temp up to 80 or better.

Buuuuuut nooooooo.

Worked last time.  ::)

[ArnieM]

If the temp stays low, set the PID to 80 (if it works that low).

I may try some cheese this weekend but temps are supposed to be in the high 40's to 50.  If not, temps back down in the 40's next week.

[OU812]

The PID will work down to 32, gonna use it next time.

Heck Arnie if the temp is going to be in the 40's you outta smoke some cheese, thats the temp when I did this batch.

Just wait till the sun goes down then throw the cheese in and smoke it up.