HOT AND COLD SMOKE WITH THIS TOP OF THE RANGE SMOKER SET
* PLEASE NOTE * PROQ COLD SMOKE GENERATOR SOLD OUT. Due to unprecedented demand for this product, there will be a delay before we can obtain new stock until early April 2010. All other items which make up the ProQ Excel Hot and Cold Smoker Set are available and if you are happy to wait for the Cold Smoke Generator, please go ahead and place your order. The Cold Smoke Generator will be sent to you as soon as it is available. Alternatively, please email alyson@hotsmoked.co.uk and we will reserve a ProQ Cold Smoke Generator for you and send this with the complete set only when stock is available, at which point we will take payment. We are extremely sorry for this unplanned gap in supply.
By far the biggest and best vertical hot food smoker, the ProQ Excel, now just got even better! We've combined this impressive food smoker with the new ProQ Cold Smoke Generator to provide you with a total food smoking kit, capable of both hot and cold smoking, not forgetting all the other cooking methods the ProQ Excel offers including roasting, steaming and barbecuing. Our set also includes 2 x 1kg packs of wood supplies, one in a dust form ideal for cold smoking and the other in a chip form for hot smoking. A hardwood and a fruitwood flavour will be supplied. So, aside from your food and the charcoal to heat your smoker for hot smoking - you are ready to smoke.
The ProQ Excel has an impressive line-up of practical food smoking features including 3 vents in the base for increased control over temperature, temperature probe eyelets at each food smoking level and a robust construction in high grade powder coated steel. As the top of the range in the ProQ family, the Excel stands 1.2m tall and offers excellent capacity in two food smoking stackers with a diameter of 50cm. You can, as with most of the ProQ food smokers, add to that capacity by purchasing an additional food smoking stacking, giving you even more space and as ever with a ProQ, you have the option to reduce the capacity by removing a stacker or two for a particular food smoking session, or removing the stackers completely to transform into a roomy kettle bbq. The Excel is supplied with a hanging rack as standard, ideal for smoking fish or other cuts of meat vertically. The secret of much of the successful results you can achieve in the Excel is down to the water pan which not only suppresses the heat form your charcoal fire in the base, but also infuses the process with moisture flavoured with wine, spirits and fresh herbs of your choice.
For cold smoking, you simply place the ProQ Cold Smoke Generator in the empty charcoal basket and dispense with the water bowl. This amazing - and on the face of it rather small - contraption is filled with wood dust so that the metal rim is still visible and then lit from an outer corner. Once the dust starts to smoulder it burns slowly around the mesh sided coil and will delivery aromatic wood smoke - without the heat - for up to 12 hours with just one 100g batch of wood dust. The smoke production is intense and you can cold smoke cheeses in as little as 3 hours with larger cuts of meat taking up to the full 12 hours.
Our own Hot Smoked wood dust and wood chips are all either FSC approved or sourced from sustainable, managed estates and they are available in a wide choice of flavours - see our Wood Smoking Products section for more details. We would normally supply an oak or maple together with an apple or cherry option - however, if you have a particular flavour requirement, just let us know in the customer comments section when you place your order.
For further technical information about the ProQ Excel, see the separate entry in our Hot Smokers section, or just give us a call for more details.
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Price: £229.00
