Tea for Smoking Meats?
Anyone have experience with using tea to smoke meats?
I have been burning through winter Oolong like its my job making iced tea. Have started to dry out leaves and save them.
Thinking to tea smoke/roast a turkey breast on the grill. Have done it before with various woods, nut shells, but zero experience with tea.
Thanks
Sounds amazing. Sorry I don’t have any recommendations or suggestions and have no experience with smoking meats but I DO have experience in eating them so I’m definitely going to check back here and see what others say.
The usual Chinese way is to use (uncooked) rice, brown sugar, and dry tea leaves. Lots of recipes and videos online. I imagine that using a smoked or smokey tea would be kind of redundant in this case, but I’d definitely avoid using something expensive (not sure if dried out spent leaves will work, though I can’t think of a good reason they wouldn’t).
Vegetarians can, of course, smoke pressed tofu, vegetarian duck, or wheat gluten, which is also pretty tasty.
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