Prepare your Cheese and your Masterbuilt Electric Smoker Clean the Smokerīefore we get into how cold smoking works, take some time prepping the smoker. You also might get some nice crosshatch marks on your smoked cheese rind making it look more professionally smoked and appetizing. This way you distribute the weight of the smoked cheese better so it’s less likely to sink into the rack as it softens. The best compromise is putting the cheese on a good wire rack, preferably a mesh wire rack, the smaller and thinner the better. Now, it IS possible to use the regular wire shelves in your Masterbuilt electric smoker, but, many have found they begin to dig into the cheese as it softens and sinks a little during the smoking process,Ī pan is not a great option either because it completely blocks smoke penetration on the entire bottom surface of the cheese. Even inexpensive supermarket cheese will work fine and becomes delicious after being smoked. Solid milk fat in cheese traditionally begins to melt at 90 degrees Fahrenheit, so choosing a cheese that has a melting point lower than this will make the task even harder.Ĭheddar, halloumi, gouda, and mozzarella are all great cheeses to choose from due to their higher melting points.Īdditionally, don’t feel as though you need to buy premium cheese for smoking.
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How to Choose the Right Cheese for Cold SmokingĮven though you’ll be using a cold smoker, you still need to choose a cheese that has a higher melting point than the rest. Here, the Masterbuilt Electric Smoker comes in quite handy, allowing for precision of temperature to keep that cheese nice and solid while smoking. The temperature is to be kept below 90☏ (32☌) to prevent this from happening, and you must make sure that it stays below that threshold during the 3 to 4 hours it will take to absorb the smoke. Luckily, with a Masterbuilt electric smoker, it’s pretty simple. You need the smoking environment to be relatively COLD compared to how we smoke other foods like fish, pork, and beef, or obviously the cheese will melt. The trick to smoking cheese correctly at home is in the temperature. It’s not hard to do at all with a Masterbuilt electric smoker and you’ll be enjoying perfectly smoked cheese in no time. Learn step-by-step how to smoke cheese in a masterbuilt electric smoker! Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print Recipe
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