Continuingto catch up with the blog… but in real time we have now put our food smoking course dates on for 2010!
17.7.09
Good weather for ducks – but certainly not good weather for smoking food! We are just preparing for another smoking course tomorrow – and it is pouring! Torrential rain – which apart from not being much fun to work in – is really not good weather for smoking. And it is cold – we have had to put the heating on – in July! If you think about the essence of smoking – certainly in times gone by – being to help to dry out the food – it works so much better if it is a dry day. Moist, rainy days make smoking very much more difficult. Smoking is an art not a science and there are lots of things that impact on whether food will smoke well and smoke quickly. The atmosphere is one of them!
So think of us tomorrow – hopefully the wind will have dropped a little, the rain will have stopped and maybe we might get a bit of sunshine. However as I sit here listening to the thunder and howling wind with the rain lashing against the windows and roof – I am a little sceptical…