On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:03:01 -0700, Nonnymus
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>Radar wrote:
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>> You can distill your own liquid smoke but why go to the trouble? The
>> store brands are all fine. I figure that if I put in the effort to rig
>> up a distillery, I'll want something besides liquid smoke coming out
>> of the pipe.
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>Excellent idea and one that I've used before. When I ran out of liquid
>smoke once, I chipped a few chunks of creosote out of my chimney. By
>placing the chunks in alcohol, I made a very decent homemade version of
>liquid smoke, and couldn't tell the difference when I boiled ribs in it.
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>FWIW, those of you who drink Scotch might also find this a handy tip- a
>little piece of chimney creosote added to moonshine gives it the smokey
>rememberance of aged Scotch whiskey.

That is a good method for smoking bacon too. But I have found it a
bit overpowering when I marinated overnight. Perhaps 10 hours . . .

One must be carefull not to put the bacon on the grill until after all
the self starting mixture has burned off the briquettes . . .

Harry