Smokehouse Recipes

The tastes and textures in this sweet, smokey, slightly salty dessert meld together nicely, creating a flavor balance that’s hard to resist. Smoke in desserts is becoming more common on upscale restaurant menus and it’s something that’s incredibly easy to replicate at home with a cold smoke generator like the Smoke Chief. Made from scratch, caramel may sound difficult but it’s actually very simple, requiring only a few common ingredients. All components in this dessert can be cold smoked; the salt, the caramel/brittle ingredients, and even the ice cream. If you are going for a lot of smoke, smoke everything....

It can be as easy to make your own smoked salsas using your Smoke Chief Cold Smoke Generator as placing your favorite salsa recipe is a large shallow non-reactive container such as pyrex pie dishes in your grill and cold-smoking for one hour for a light smoke taste or 2 hours for a heavier taste. You can also smoke your raw ingredients such as sliced tomato, sliced onions, or halved and cleaned chilies or peppers and cold-smoking before chopping into salsa. Smoked chillies, peppers, and onions can also be cold-smoked alone to use in other dishes, such as chili, ragu’’s,...

A smokin’ twist to a classic elk steak recipe! Recommended Products: Smoke Chief Cold Smoke Generator, Smokehouse® Cherry BBQ Pellets Elk tenderloin and backstraps often produce the best steaks around our neck of the woods. So when it came time to dig out some backstraps from the freezer, I wanted to make sure we used our favorite recipe. When it comes to smoking meats or fish, I’ve grown up using the Big Chief and Little Chief smokers. Well now there’s the Smoke Chief (www.thesmokechief.com). The Smoke Chief is a cold smoke generator that attaches to any grill to add smoke…...

Hickory Smoked Duck Bacon Yes, bacon traditionally comes from a pig but you've heard of turkey bacon and soy bacon... why not duck bacon? Originally a recipe for ground duck jerky, Duck Bacon makes a great breakfast meat. If you find yourself with stronger flavored ducks on hand, this brine/marinade treatment is just the taming they need. Having a Smokehouse Jerky Gun to make the strips is key but the meat can be rolled out and cut by hand. To give it the best smokey flavor, cold smoke using the Smoke Chief Cold Smoke Generator and finish cooking in a...

The smell of wood smoke and freshly peeled apples takes me back to the evenings I spent at the foot of my grandfather’s chair. There was always a fire in the huge rock fireplace and there was always a pile of apples in a large wooden bowl sitting beside a burlap bag full of venison jerky. Watching grandpa peel the apple with his pocket knife was always fun as he could easily do it in one continuous motion, never letting the peel break. I’d toss the long string of peeling onto the fire and watch it steam and crackle in...