HotSmoked | Cure & Smoke Kit

Your Springboard to the Full Recipe Repertoire of Delicious Smoked Foods

A complete kit for home curing and cold smoking, this HotSmoked Cure & Smoke Kit will be your springboard to the full recipe repertoire of delicious smoked meats, fish and cheeses as well as butter, oils, salt, nuts and chillies.

The kit provides everything you need to master this wonderful artisan process and all you need is a smoking compartment which can be a regular BBQ, dedicated smoker or a home-made compartment – think kitchen cupboard, old fridge, or even cardboard engineering. Any enclosed, ventilated compartment will work. 

The reward is wonderful tasting foods and complete knowledge about how your food has been produced.

Included in the kit are the items you need for the two key stages of cold smoked foods, a ready-mix cure for fresh meats and fish, a cold smoke generator for smoke production plus two pure smoking wood dust flavours in contrasting strengths, Oak and Beech, along with a bonus pack of Alder dust.

To help you we’ve also included our Hot Smoked Recipe Booklet and our Guide to Using Wood Smoke Flavour leaflet.

Presented in a gift box, this makes a brilliant gift for the curious cook, keen to master the art of curing and smoking.

KIT CONTENTS

• Ready Mixed Cure 1kg
• ProQ Cold Smoke Generator
• Oak Smoking Dust 500g
• Beech Smoking Dust 500g
• Alder Smoking Dust bonus pack (approx 200g)
• Hot Smoked 24 page Recipe Booklet
• Guide to Using Wood Smoke Flavours Leaflet

The cure mix contains curing agents, at a rate of 1.2% of an overall salt mix. The compounds occur in just enough concentration, well below permitted EU guidelines. They give you peace of mind by eradicating any residual bacterial content.

Salt, together with your own additions of sugar, herbs, and spices, does the rest. It therefore imbues your foods with even more excellent flavours. You can use the cure mix at a rate of 60g per 1kg of meat or fish, or alternatively dissolve it in water to create a liquid brine.

Our wood dust is graded to the optimum size to smoulder effectively in the ProQ Cold Smoke Generator. The wood is totally pure, FSC certified and produced specifically for food smoking purposes. Oak offers a wonderfully rich flavour that is quite strong yet highly versatile. It works well with most foods, especially if you enjoy smokier tastes.

Beech is a lighter more subtle flavour and works well with fish and white meats. A mix of the two creates a middle flavour ground. The Alder is slightly stronger than Beech and best known for use with smoked salmon.

The ProQ Cold Smoke Generator is a simple stainless steel mesh ‘maze’ measuring 15cm square. Its size allows just enough airflow for proper use. This creates low-temperature smouldering of wood dust while releasing aromatic smoke.

The generator is filled with just 100g of wood dust and lit from an outer corner. The wood burns slowly and travels along the mesh channels, delivering wood smoke for around 10 hours.

DIMENSIONS:

• Box Dimensions: L47cm x D33cm x H10cm
• Generator Dimensions: W 15 x D 15 x H 4 cm made of stainless steel. Tealight is included for lighting the dust

STORAGE

Reseal wood bags after use and store in a cool dry place

CLEANING:

The ProQ Cold Smoke Generator is dishwasher safe, but also benefits from gentle brushing on the fine mesh work to remove resinous deposits. An old toothbrush or soft nailbrush is ideal for this task.

GUIDANCE & RECIPES

For extra guidance, insights, tips and techniques visit our Curing Edit and our Secrets of Cold Smoking sections on our website at the following links: For Recipes visit our Cold Smoking Recipes section here