This Is My First Time Smoking Meat

Oh my God!!!! I love this flavor and I am doing it now on my George Forman’s electric grill. Before I got started, I put 2 handfuls of wood chips in 1 cup of water to soak for 30 minutes.

Now bare with me please because this is my first time smoking my meat and I am doing it at home. I drained my soaked wood chips and put them in my smoker box. This smoker box I placed on the right hand side on my grill to the top of the grill because the foil where my meat was on was the flat side and this gave it such a nice aroma and I was getting hungry when I smelled the smoke. The hottest part of my grill is the right side is because the probe that goes in to it and I set it at 5 which is as high as it will go. When The smoker box was smoking then I moved it to the top and in the middle.

I chose chicken because I didn’t want to deal with a bunch of food tumbling out of my freezer. Actually it is 1/2 of a chicken cut up for starters.

Besides I am a huge klutz. Benazir Khan’s Dry Rub is what I made before I even got busy in to my meat smoking. Also do not forget to spray the sheet of aluminum foil your chicken is on and fold it up on the sides and the bottom while leaving the top flat so the smoke can hit it.

This is my smoked chicken after it was finished and it is lip smackingly and finger licking good. Wait a minute, I nearly ate my fingers because it is so yummy. I think for bigger pieces of meat like turkey that I would have to cut the bird up itself in order for me to smoke it or use my smoker box in the oven as well to smoke my turkey.

Actually for my chicken it took me a total of 55 minutes on number 2 setting on my electric grill to smoke. I used 2 incriments of 20 minutes and 1 of 15. I turned each time the timer had went off so I set the timer for 20 then when time was up I turned the meat and repeated it for another 20, came back again for the last time and cooked for 15 minutes. I also laid aluminum foil on my grill so I can keep the juices around the chicken. I left one part flat in the back so the smoke can hit the meat.

Actually You can smoke besides pieces of chicken you can do 1b or 1 kg of lamb, beef, goat, veal and like I said before turkey, any type of fish, or other seafoods as long as they are fresh or frozen then thawed out, quail, rabbit, cornish hen, duck, beef shortribs, beef or veal ribs, steaks, or oxtails. This smoker box I got is a life saver that it had turned my electric grill in to a smoker and I think it will work for my oven too.

I will attempt to use my oven Inshallah for tougher and bigger cuts of meat. along with my huge roasting pan and more aluminum foil. I am going to keep you guys updated to let you know how that worked but I will do it only when the weather is cool not blazing hot like in the summer. Now is the perfect time to put this to the test and I will soon and let you know.

So far I have used hickory chips and there are other flavors too like mesquite, alder, cherry, apple, oak, pecan and maple. Now I have picked my friends brains about smoking and now I am going to have them critque me and see how I did. Also Mr. Riaz I hope I do not hear you say you don’t like smoked meat anymore because I am going to win you over on this one that is for sure.