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14000241 No.14000241 [Reply] [Original]

>soak wood chips
>get a nice brown water
there's gotta be something useful to do with this water, right? I havent separated it from the wood and smelled it, but i have to imagine it should have the essence of the wood in it right? would provide, say, a hickory flavor, if you used hickory water and threw it into a sauce or something where you could reduce it to nothing in normal cooking of whatever dish?

>> No.14000251

>>14000241
boil potatoes in it

>> No.14000254
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14000254

>>14000241
>soak wood chips
>put chips in smoker
>smoker dries them off
>the wood only then begins smouldering
Wetting the chips is the biggest meme in food preparation, and anyone that does this should kill themselves promptly out of shame.

>> No.14000260

>>14000241
water your herbs

>> No.14000261

>>14000241

You're going to make yourself very sick doing retarded things like this

>> No.14000267

>>14000251
potatoes sound like the least likely food to be good with smoek flavor

>>14000254
i believe you are right, but at the very least, the inconsistency between chips and their drying would potentially prolong the smoke output between all wood chips in a certain handful you throw in

>>14000260
the only thing in my backyard is my roommates car parts, no room for herbs

>>14000261
i mean i would wash them off first if i planned to use the water in something. what part of wood water would be bad for you that the smoke wouldnt contain?

>> No.14000395

>>14000241
pls help. If I'm retarded, there must have been someone more retarded than me to actually try it

>> No.14000404

>>14000395
It's tannins in the water making it brown.
If you ferment pickles you can add it to the salt water instead of oak/bay leaves to keep the pickles firm.
>8 captchas for this

>> No.14000410

>>14000395
Nope, think you’re just the most retarded one here
>soaking wood in water to cook with it
Why not just soak rocks, or grass, or rotten human flesh? Who knows, maybe poop imparts an earthy flavor, dipshit.

>> No.14000429

>>14000410
maybe because certain woods actually impart good flavor and aroma? I'm already using the soaked wood for smoking

>>14000404
>tannins
I know these impart smell and flavor to wines, but are the ones picked up in the water not necessarily the same ones that give the smoke their flavor and aroma?