Yes and no. You can smoke food just to add a smokey flavor, then finish cooking it on a grill or indoors. However, I’ve always smoked and cooked simultaneously. You can use a couple of methods to know when the food is done. You can use a meat thermometer to know that the food has reached the appropriate temp. Alternatively, you can just go by the length of time you’ve smoked something. For example, I believe turkey needs to cook at 30 minutes per pound at 250 to be considered done. With this formula, which may not be exactly accurate, you would know your 10 pound turkey should cook for at least 5 hours at 250 degrees until it is finished. Again, those numbers may not be exactly accurate, but you can google temperatures and times to find the exact numbers, but hopefully it gives you an idea. Hope this helps.
> On Jul 6, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Sharon Howerton via Cookinginthedark > <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do you know when the food is done? I apologize if this is a dumb > question, but when you are smoking the food, is it also cooking it? > > Thanks. > > Sharon > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
