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Meat Mopper
Original poster
Feb 3, 2012
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18
Colorado Springs, CO
Working from home today and needed to try out some dust from Todd.  What a great day to smoke some cheese.

I just cannot get enough of the Smoked Pepper Jack and Smoked Queso Fresco.  If you haven't tried some of the Queso Fresco yet, do yourself a favor and try it, fantastic!  If you can find it, buy it in the 5lb block, divide it into pounds, then smoke it in 8oz hunks.  It is a crumbling/melting cheese anyway, so I throw it in the freezer and it lasts forever.

Ambient temp 63 degrees, smoker temp 77 after 1 hour.

I will pull the mozzarella at 2 hours, my kids love it with just a taste of smoke, and doing it this way it's much cheaper than string cheese for their school lunches.

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Ended up with some decent color on the cheeses.  Had to resort to an ice bath around hour 3.

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All wrapped up and waiting...

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