Project Smoke: 100 Smoked-Food Recipes and Techniques

Smoked-Food Techniques: Project Smoke by Steven Raichlen combines a seven-step guide to smoking with 100 recipes spanning starters, mains and desserts. It covers cold-smoking, hot-smoking, smoke-roasting and other approaches, with guidance on smokers, fuels, woods and essential preparations.

At a glance

Seven-step approach includes choosing a smoker, sourcing fuel and judging when food is done.
Explains tools, fuels, smoking woods, brines, rubs, marinades and barbecue sauces.
Recipes range from smoked nachos and brisket to smoked salmon and bacon-bourbon apple crisp.
Describes smoking with tea and hay as well as more conventional methods.

Price

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Pros and cons

Pros

Pairs technique instruction with 100 recipes, so it can serve as both a learning guide and a recipe collection.
Covers several smoking approaches and discusses adapting a grill for smoking.
Customer feedback specifically appreciates the useful tips and pictures.

Technical specifications

9 specifications

Publication details
Publisher	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date	May 10 2016
Language	English
Print length	336 pages
ISBN-10	0761181865
ISBN-13	978-0761181866

Dimensions and installation
Weight listed	848 g
Dimensions	20.45 x 1.91 x 23.5 cm

Content
Recipes	100

Who is it for?

A good fit for

New smokers seeking technique guidance alongside recipes.
Grill owners interested in adapting their existing equipment for smoking.
Cooks looking beyond meat to smoked starters, cheese and desserts.

Less suited to

Readers seeking a narrow cookbook devoted only to one smoker type or a single category of food.

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Customer reviews on Amazon

4.7 / 5 · 9,937 ratings

5 stars78%78%
4 stars17%17%
3 stars3%3%
2 stars1%1%
1 star1%1%

Customer feedback describes the book as informative, with useful tips, appealing recipes and pictures that enhance the content. That praise is relevant to buyers using its seven-step instruction and broad collection of 100 recipes, including those new to smoking. Aggregate ratings are also strongly positive overall, though ratings alone cannot show which specific methods or recipes readers preferred.

Positive themes

Customers describe the content as informative and useful.
Feedback highlights the recipes and pictures positively.

Frequently asked questions

What does Project Smoke cover?

It combines a seven-step smoking guide with 100 recipes and guidance on smokers, fuel, wood, preparations and smoking methods.

Does the book cover more than hot smoking?

Yes. The supplied description includes cold-smoking, hot-smoking, smoke-roasting and smokebraising, along with smoking with tea and hay.

Is it aimed at beginners?

The book offers step-by-step guidance and customer feedback describes the recipes as useful for new smokers. It also includes material for readers exploring different methods.