Last week I bought a new toy on Ebay that I've coveted for a while, a Polyscience Smoking Gun. The Smoking Gun allows you add smoke to foods without adding any heat, so you can "smoke" delicate things that you don't want to cook like fruits and cheeses. Obviously this isn't smoking in a traditional sense as there is no cooking and no penetration of the smoke in to the food, it just settles on the surface. Two small cans of sawdust come with the Smoking Gun, hickory and apple wood, there are several other varieties available from Polyscience but they seem a bit expensive so I ordered this from Amazon which looks to be the correct grind for the gun. Once I've had a chance to try them out I'll add the results to this post. Other smoke sources people seem to be using are tobacco, tea and dried herbs, so many things to burn and so little time! For my first foray in to cold smoking I used some hickory sawdust to smoke strawberries and sharp cheddar cheese...
