Do Propane Smokers Really Smoke And Grill Food?

By Robert Blackmore


Propane, a fairly clean fuel, produces red hot and dry heat, and is also smokeless when burned. Cooking food with it is a long tradition for those reasons. You will see endless numbers of barbecues and other devices using propane to cook meals around the country.

Although it is a called a propane "smoker", it does not actually smoke the meat particularly if you are cooking using the regular method.

Most of the barbecue restaurants put in moist wood chips so that the propane flame would produce smoke hence in a way it "smokes" the meat. This also adds a great deal of flavor, which is the main goal.

Barbecue experts are less likely to be satisfied by this method since they consider a smoker to be genuine only if it uses wood or charcoal. The genuine smoker also slowly cooks food for 10 to 12 hours at 180 to 250 degrees.

Propane gas grills are often sold as propane smokers, which is actually a misnomer unless you want to follow the cooking method used by restaurants.

Nonetheless, there are several good qualities possessed by the propane smoker, for example it can grill and broil food. The roasting temperatures can reach up to 700 degrees that is ideal for broiling meat. At the same time, it allows the cook to experience the same joy in cooking as they would have if they used another type of grill.

It can be used to roast a whole chicken for just a little more than an hour, compared to cooking on charcoal grills that would definitely take more time. On the other hand, chicken cooked on a charcoal grill exude a wood smoke scent and flavor.

It has always been the tradition that grilling and roasting be done on wood fires that imparts its smell and flavor to the cooked food. Propane smokers, no matter how hard people try, cannot really produce cooked food that can duplicate these characteristics.




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