Liquid smoke from powder

[shanew]

Hopefully a simple question.. A few recipes call for liquid smoke, I have a pack of smoke powder bought from Franco's and would like to know the ratio of powder to water to make a liquid smoke to use.

Cheers,

Shane.

[GUS]

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I personally do not have experience of it myself per se, however i'm sure there will be more detail in a key word site search.

[GUS]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8 ... g&hl=en-GB.

Here is a google web crawl pertaining to smoke powder, hope it is of some use on the knowledge front, wheels or bri-can will be about soon though i'm sure...

[shanew]

Thanks for the replies GUS,
My problem is I've never had liquid smoke so I have no idea how concentrated the aroma is and having never used franco's smoke powder I am completely lost. Knowing I need .5g per kilo of powder I just need to find a recipe that calls for x-ml of liquid per kilo to make a comparison.

For example, if I need 20ml of liquid smoke to prepare a kilo of meat then it would be .5g into 19.5ml of water.

Cheers,
Shane.

[wheels]

I recall someone on here saying that .5g is an absolute minimum and that most use more - maybe worth a forum search.

HTH

[GUS]

Yes, I see.

The thought on it (as I've read the supplied threads) is, that it is subjective to ones own taste, ..which as the chef is on your head / tastebuds.
Presumably you have enough to play with rather than a mere morsel?

If so then try something cheap to get an idea of the depth of taste such as a sauce / ketchup which will get you out of the starting gates, & if too strong can be tempered elsewhere.

Just my tuppence worth of advice.