First load of the new smoker
After a couple of smokes with no contents to see if the the smoker appeared to be running properly and to give it a bit of character. Notice the tiles in the bottom to stop the smoke generator ‘leaking’ any heat and melting the plastic – not a good move! All the brown that you can see is smoke deposits from the previous smokes. Today was the day when I loaded it up (well not quite!!) and let it do its stuff. In went
1. Haddock – 6 hours
2. Gammon – 10 hours
3. A piece of Cheddar Cheese – 7 hours
4. A smoke generator full of maple dust
I’ll let you know in the week whether or not it has been a success, or where I need to improve it!
My first attempts at curing and smoking food 
Had the gammon this evening and I’m glad that there’s some left over for tomorrow. I had this daft idea that the smoky taste would dissipate when the gammon was boiled, but definitely not!