Smoking Eggs is delicious. If you like pickled eggs, I do, you can smoke them before pickling. Smoking eggs is also easy: boil the eggs, peel them, and smoke them, not too long, not too hot.
Smoking Eggs
Smoking eggs is easy
Servings: 4
Equipment
- Smoker
Instructions
- Preheat the smoker to as low as it goes. You can smoke at 200F as you don't smoke the eggs that long, but lower is better.
- Boil the eggs. For hard boiled I prefer to steam them for 8 minutes, but whatever works for you. You can actually smoke (and pickle!) soft boiled eggs …
- When boiled, put the eggs in ice water. It prevents the green sulphur rings from forming.
- Peel the eggs by cracking the entire shell (rattling in an upside-down glass on the counter works, I rattle it inside my hand against the side of the sink), then peeling it under running water. Make certain to tear the skin under the shell to let water get under it.
- Put the peeled eggs on a rack (Bradley rack, cookie sheet with a rack in it, silicone mesh) for easier handling.Put the tray(s) with eggs in the smoker. Make certain there is no direct flow of hot smoke on the eggs (they turn harder and rubberier easy). Smoke for 30 minutes. Though, at this time, smoke typically colors the eggs maybe a 1/16th of an inch below the surface, the smoke flavor gets through the whole egg.
Notes
Based on information on Jeff Phillips’ Smoking Meat forum.
