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Smoking

Smoking

We’ve gathered our best smoker recipes in one place to help people find simple, delicious ways to cook smoked food. If you love the smoky flavor of delicious barbecue, smoked meats, and more, check out our collection of smoking recipes.

No matter what types of meat you’re into, we have step-by-step instructions that make smoking meat, fish, poultry, sausage, and vegetables easy.

The Best Smoker Recipes

The best smoker recipes are filled with interesting ideas and tips to help cooks smoke food that balances the seasoning from dry rubs, sauces, and glazes with the heat, humidity, and smoke from the smoker to create delicious tasting food.

At Umami, we work hard to develop recipes that are clearly written, filled with helpful information, and designed to help cooks smoke tasty food with layers of flavor time after time. That is why we test our recipes over and over again and encourage readers to leave their comments and feedback.

Smoking Food

Smoking food is a traditional cooking technique used to enhance flavor and preserve food. With the advent of refrigeration, hot smoking or smoke roasting is more about using the flavor from the smoke to improve the taste of a dish than preservation these days.

Hot smoking is the most popular method used by home cooks. Cold smoking, another popular method that uses lower temperatures than hot smoking, is focused on both flavor enhancement and preservation.

At Umami, we’ve developed dozens of delicious smoker recipes for beef, pork, chicken, lamb, duck, and even buffalo. Whether you use an offset smoker, vertical smoker, or grill as a smoker, we have a collection of articles and recipes to help you smoke tastier food.

If you’re interested in learning more about smoking as a cooking method, read our Complete Guide to Smoking Food. It’s filled with information about how smoking food works, a wide variety of smoking techniques, background on different types of smokers, what types of wood to use, and how to season smoked food.

People who love smoked meat and delicious barbecue should give the Flip, Fire, and Paint Technique a try to learn how to carmelize barbecue sauce at the end of the cooking process to lock in moisture and crisp up the outside of dishes such as Smoked Pork Ribs and Grilled Barbecue Chicken. It’s a simple way to add another level of flavor to your favorite recipe.

What to Cook in a Smoker

A few of our favorite smoker recipes include Smoked Beef Roast, Smoked Pork Loin, and a luscious Smoked Duck Breast.

If you love smoked chicken, try our Simple Smoked Chicken Legs, Smoked Chicken Quarters with Crispy Skin, or Hickory Smoked Chicken Wings.

For scrumptious smoked meat ideas for your next family gathering, read The Best Meats to Smoke & How to Make them Taste Delicious. This deep dive is written for lovers of barbecue with tons of tips to make everything from your smoker taste delicious. For more visual learners, watch The Best Meats to Smoke.

Whether you’re looking for creative ways to smoke pork, beef, or chicken or creative ways to smoke salmon, lamb, duck, or other unique cuts of meat, like this Homemade Bacon Recipe, we have something for every palate.

We’ve also created unique barbecue sauces, such as this Ancho Chili and Honey Bbq Sauce filled with bold, savory flavors and this Dynamite Smoked Chicken Rub, that make it easy to develop interesting textures and layers of flavor.

Smoking Food

A Complete Guide to Smoking Food 

Learn why smoking food is so delicious, take a deep dive into different types of smokers, cover a wide variety of smoking techniques, and, most importantly, learn how to season smoked food, so it tastes amazing.

Korean BBQ Short Ribs Recipe

Our Best Ideas for Grilling – Tips, Tricks, Recipes, & Secret Sauces

For people who love to fire up the grill and cook delicious food, we’ve collected all our best ideas for grilling in one place. This piece is filled with tips and tricks to help the most experienced cooks grill tastier food. It includes recipes for the grill, foods to grill, and dinner grilling ideas.

Smoked Chicken Rub

A Dynamite Smoked Chicken Rub

This smoked chicken rub is a simple seasoning for smoking chicken that is packed with delicious flavors and has crispy skin on the outside.

Smoked Chicken Legs

Simpled Smoked Chicken Legs (Drumsticks)

Smoked chicken legs are one of the simplest ways to make tasty, smokey chicken for a crowd. What makes smoking drumsticks such a great choice is how they absorb the flavors from the smoke and homemade dry rub while staying tender and juicy.

Smoked Roast Beef Shareable

The Best Meats to Smoke & How to Make them Taste Delicious

Here are the best meats to smoke for lovers of delicious barbecue with tons of tips to make everything that comes from your smoker taste delicious.

Smoked Pork Loin Roast Featured

Smoked Pork Loin

There’s a lot to love about smoked pork loin. It’s a versatile cut that can be seasoned hundreds of different ways, smokes relatively quickly, and looks amazing on the plate.

Wing Being Dunked

All the Best Chicken Wing Recipes We Could Find on the Internet

Whether you like your wings baked, fried, grilled, smoked, or cooked in a slow cooker we’ve gathered some amazing chicken wing recipes from across the internet.

BBQ Ribs Being Finished on the Grill

How to Use the Flip, Fire, and Paint Technique for Even More Delicious Barbecue

The secret to delicious barbecue is using the flip, fire, and paint technique to apply BBQ sauce in thin layers using the heat from the grill to sear it on and crisp everything up.

Sauce being painted on BBQ Ribs

All the Recipes and Tips You Need to Up Your Grill Game this Summer

Whether you’re an expert with the grill or just getting started, we’ve got all the recipes and tips you need to up your grill game this summer.

Smoked Duck Breast Recipe

Smoked Duck Breast

Gently smoked duck breasts have a rich smokey flavor that highlights the duck’s natural goodness, creating a perfect dish for nice dinners.

Smoked Chicken Quarters

Smoked Chicken Quarters with Crispy Skin

Smoked chicken quarters have a rich smoky flavor and warm buttery texture that melts in your mouth. This recipe includes a versatile dry rub and everything you need to know to get the chicken tender and juicy on the inside with crispy golden brown crispy on the outside.

Pork shoulder roasting for carnitas

20 Grill Gadgets that Will Make You Happy and Help You Grill Better Food

Having the right gear makes grilling easier and more fun, which is why we’ve put together a list of 20 grill gadgets that will make you happy and help you grill better food.

Turkey Giblet Gravy Recipe

Turkey Giblet Gravy

This turkey giblet gravy recipe is a simple way to use a turkey neck to make a delicious gravy when you’re grilling, smoking, or roasting a turkey.

Bacon Infused BBQ Ribs

Bacon Infused BBQ Ribs

Using thick strips of bacon to infuse smoked barbecue ribs with bacony goodness creates tender BBQ ribs with a rich, smoky flavor.

Bacon Bourbon BBQ Sauce

Bacon Bourbon BBQ Sauce

What more can you ask from a BBQ sauce recipe than combining bacon and bourbon into a smooth, tangy BBQ sauce with a touch of pepper on the finish?

The white bread test is a great way to see how your grill really works

How to Use the White Bread Grill Test to Grill Better Food

Using the white bread grill test is an easy way to see how your grill really works and is a great way to learn how to grill better food.

Homemade Bacon Recipe

Homemade Bacon

Making homemade bacon is a lot easier than it sounds. All you need is this recipe, some pork belly and a little time to create thick, smokey, delicious, bacon at home.

Hickory Smoked Chicken Wings Recipe Closeup

Hickory Smoked Chicken Wings

These tasty smoked chicken wings use Tabasco and a homemade spice rub with deep smoky flavors and some heat to create bold, flavorful smoked wings that are nice and crispy on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside.

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