What's this?

[Yorky]

I still haven't a clue...........

 

[Yorky]

Is it one of those heating elements that you stick in a pan of water to regulate the cooking?

 

[Morning Glory]

Is it one of those heating elements that you stick in a pan of water to regulate the cooking?

Nope

 

[Morning Glory]

@epicuric may know what its is now you put the halves together. The pipe on the right is quite long.

 

[Yorky]

Is it gas fired?

 

[epicuric]

A smoke machine?

 

[Herbie]

A gas lighter (for stove or bbq)?

 

[Morning Glory]

A smoke machine?

Eureka!

This was smoked home-made goat's cheese.

 

[Yorky]

No home should be without one.

However, I could find a better use for it.

 

[buckytom]

Smokey enimas?

 

[Morning Glory]

I got it for Xmas - its an expensive toy but works brilliantly. Smoked food in seconds, literally. Its a Heston Blumenthal 'Sage' gadget.

 

[Yorky]

An American friend brought me this, from where I know not. I wasn't really impressed but maybe I was using it wrong. There's 95% of it left in the bottle.

 

[Morning Glory]

An American friend brought me this, from where I know not. I wasn't really impressed but maybe I was using it wrong. There's 95% of it left in the bottle.

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Yes I've got something similar. I use it occasionally - a tiny bit right at the end of cooking something like a bean stew. Even a little added to regular baked beans so they taste more like Boston baked beans. But if you use too much its horrible. And no use for smoking cheese or eggs...

 

[buckytom]

Yes, if you use even a few drops too many, it ends up tasting kind of artificial, or weird.

I'm not a big fan of liquid smoke. I'd rather add an ingredient that is actually smoked to impart that flavour, like chipotles, or smoked finishing salts, or the like.

 

[Herbie]

An easy one...