Method of smoking food
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsGordon Lever, Yoshitaka Yanagawa
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AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsGordon Lever, Yoshitaka Yanagawa
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Disclosed are food smoker for household or restaurant use and method for food smoking with the smoker. The food smoker comprises a container containing a liquid wood or pellet(s) onto which the liquid wood is adsorbed, which is installed in the bottom part of the smoker body, a means for heating the container, and a means for holding a material (such as food) to be smoked in the inside of the smoker body. The food smoker is preferably provided with a means capable of radiating far infrared rays by the heat of the heating means at least around the holding means. The liquid wood can be recovered by distillation or solvent extraction of wood chips. For food smoking, the liquid wood or pellet(s) onto which the liquid wood is adsorbed is(are) heated in a container of the smoker body containing the food to be smoked, whereupon the volatilization rate of the liquid wood is controlled by the choice of the heating temperature and the total amount of the liquid wood. By the smoking method with the smoker, smoked foods with delicious taste can be obtained with ease, and the smoking operation is clean, simple and safe.
A method of smoking food which comprises the steps of suspending said food to be smoked in an enclosed heated zone, providing within said zone a mass of volatile liquid wood smoke, heating said liquid wood smoke mass to gradually volatilize the same, and determining the rate of volatilization of said liquid wood smoke body by varying amounts of liquid smoke present and its heating temperature.
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