What's up guys it's Susie Bulloch from HeyGrillHey.com and I'm here to help
you make better barbecue feed the people you love and become a backyard barbecue
hero. Today we are talking all about smoking on your gas grill. That's right!
You don't need an expensive smoker to make awesomely delicious smoked food. I'll
show you some tips and tricks to make it happen. First up we're gonna talk about
two different kinds of smoking; cold smoking and hot smoking. There are two
different cooking methods, two different temperatures and you can use similar
products for both. For cold smoking you're looking for a temperature on your
grill that's less than 80 degrees, so this is generally something that I like
to do in the cooler months in the winter. I use cold smoking for cheese's, you can
use it for bacon, you can use it for adding smoke flavor to salts, anything
that really doesn't need to be cooked. We even do an amazing cold smoked salmon.
One way to do cold smoking is to use this handy dandy tool called a pellet
tube. Now these tube smokers are super simple to use. You just fill them with
wood pellets. You can buy wood pellets online; even grocery stores are carrying
a lot of wood pellets now. Just make sure that you buy cooking pellets instead of
heating pellets. They are different. Heating pellets are not designed for
food use. Fill up your smoke tube tell it's about an inch from the top and then you
simply light the end let it burn for three to five minutes, blow out the flame
and you're generating cold smoke. Now this puts out a little bit of heat but
really not a lot and so you can honestly turn any vessel outside into a cold
smoker unit; a gas smoker, you can add this to a pellet smoker or your regular
smoker, or charcoal grill. Anything that has enough space and a lid to hold in
that smoke, you can turn into a cold smoker. Next up is hot smoking. That means
we're looking for temperatures on your grill between 180 degrees and 275
degrees. This means you're cooking your food while you're adding smoke flavor
and if you're cooking on a gas grill this works
for any number of things. The first thing that we ever hot smoked was a turkey
breast so we're gonna hot smoke a turkey breast today also just to kind of
show you how it actually works in action but hot smoking works for any type of
thing that you're cooking on your grill that you want to add a nice smoky flavor
to. I'm going to teach you how I like to do hot smoking on a gas grill and that's
by making my own smoking pouch out of wood chips. Start by tearing off two
large pieces of heavy duty foil and laying them flat on your work surface.
Now it's time to add your wood chips and there are two different camps on wood
chips; people who like their wood chips soaked and people who like them dry. I
like a soft wood chip if I'm going to be adding it directly to the fire like in a
charcoal or an offset smoker situation because it generates steam and then it
turns into smoke allowing the wood chips to give you a little bit more longevity.
In a pouch scenario I like to use the dry wood chips. So you start with about
two cups just right in the center of your pouch, you fold up each end
and then roll up the side. The reason that I like to use dry wood chips for
a smoking pouch is because you're putting these directly over the burners
and your gas grill so we're gonna poke some holes in the top of this foil pouch
and the heat from the fire is going to singe the wood chips inside and instead
of creating steam it's gonna turn immediately into smoke which is going to
come out of the holes and fill up your gas grill. It's time to take this out to
the grill. Take off one of the grates on your gas grill and you're actually going
to nestle your pouch right above the burners and then replace the grates on
the top. Turn on your burner. If you're looking for a temperature between 180
and 225 you're only gonna need one burner on that's gonna heat the pouch,
it's gonna circulate the smoke through the smoker and it actually will provide
enough heat to get your grill up to that nice perfect smoking temperature. Leave
the other burners off for now, place your food on the opposite side of the grill
as your smoke pouch, close the lid and use the dome thermometer on your grill to
kind of monitor the internal temperature. If you need to increase the heat or turn
on an additional burner on the side to get that temperature up to your desired
smoking temperature which is around 225 degrees, go for it. Keep an eye on your
grill and your smoke packet. It's gonna take about 45 minutes to burn through
all of the wood chips in this pouch. You can actually assemble another one and
have it ready to go in your smoker when this one burns out. A smoked turkey
breast this size will take about two to two-and-a-half hours at 225 degrees
Fahrenheit. You're looking for an internal temperature of 165 degrees. Our
turkey is nice and smoky. It's off of our gas smoker that we rigged up today. I'm
gonna slice this and Todd's gonna regale you guys with his turkey tail. Todd: Regale? Susie: yes.
Todd: What's that mean? Susie: It's like a fancy way of telling a story. Todd: I will regale this!
So Thanksgiving 2012 we just moved into our new house, we wanted to smoke
something. We didn't have a smoker. We wanted to smoke turkey. Susie: This was pre us
owning any smoker at all. Todd: So my dad and I and Susie rigged up on our gas smoker, an
old cheap gas grill, our gas grill was just a free one that we got a craigslist
took a pie tin, filled it with woodchips and put it on one burner cranked it up
and they smoked away. Put the turkey on the other side on low and it was just
like this. Susie: Yep the inspiration for today's Turkey it's so juicy.
You get that beautiful smoke flavor and if you look close on this light meat you
can see a nice pink smoke ring allows around the edges. Todd: Good! Susie: It's really
delicious. The only thing that you need to pay attention to when you're smoking
on a gas grill is those temperatures. You're gonna spend a little bit of time
adjusting those knobs to get the temperature where you want it and you
need to refill your smoker pan when it runs out but if you can just kind of
keep an eye on it you can make absolutely delicious smoked good stuff
on a gas grill. Yep! You like that? I love it If you guys liked this video and you'd
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