Steamed on wood

[Pav]

Having had a spring clean we have found ;

1 x plank of wood packaged very nicely packaged and advertised for cooking steak / fish etc on!... xmas prezzie.

We caught a few mackeral from the canoe as the Viz is too poor to spear today. Infact an eventful trip out in the Yak. My mate dropped his fishing rod overboard as we keeled over on a larger wave. Someones getting up at 3am to go out at Lowtide and find his rod rofl .

Anyway.. Filleted a few mackeral and having soaked the wood plank for 2 hrs (it says in beer, but that has got to be a waste so its been soaking in water) and rubbing 2 tablespoons of olive oil into it and arranged the fillets, I put it on top of the BarBQ ...

What resulted were a lot of flames!! a very burnt bit of wood and some small chunks of burnt mackeral. They kinda had a flavour of wood to them.. Its a very interesting way to cook.. and interested to learn more. As for my plank (that said it was reusable).. its gone up in flames.

Anyone else succesfully cooked on a plank of wood? Can you cook on any type of wood safely? Pine? Cedar? Oak? Teak? ...

 

[stuckinsurrey]

Not quite the same but you can buy plenty of types of wood chips to place on the bbq to inpart flavour into the food i.e hickory, oak, maple etc

 

[podge]

Not quite the same but you can buy plenty of types of wood chips to place on the bbq to inpart flavour into the food i.e hickory, oak, maple etc

Jim, tried wood chips at one of Tim’s bashes and I reckon we must have put to much on as we smoked out his garden. (The whole place looked like a bee keepers convention)
After about 5 minuets all the wood caught fire and ended up totally buggering up all the food on the rack.
So the moral is wood and red-hot charcoal doesn’t mix, as it will all end in tears.

 

[omega3]

Having had a spring clean we have found ;

1 x plank of wood packaged very nicely packaged and advertised for cooking steak / fish etc on!... xmas prezzie.

We caught a few mackeral from the canoe as the Viz is too poor to spear today. Infact an eventful trip out in the Yak. My mate dropped his fishing rod overboard as we keeled over on a larger wave. Someones getting up at 3am to go out at Lowtide and find his rod rofl .

Anyway.. Filleted a few mackeral and having soaked the wood plank for 2 hrs (it says in beer, but that has got to be a waste so its been soaking in water) and rubbing 2 tablespoons of olive oil into it and arranged the fillets, I put it on top of the BarBQ ...

What resulted were a lot of flames!! a very burnt bit of wood and some small chunks of burnt mackeral. They kinda had a flavour of wood to them.. Its a very interesting way to cook.. and interested to learn more. As for my plank (that said it was reusable).. its gone up in flames.

Anyone else succesfully cooked on a plank of wood? Can you cook on any type of wood safely? Pine? Cedar? Oak? Teak? ...

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