smoking garlic

[digitalis]

Morning all,

Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to smoke garlic, I have had a good harvest and wanted to try this method with some surplus.

I have a stove top "hot" smoker which is great for chicken, fish etc but dont know if it can be used for garlic or if only the cold smoking method would work. As the heat will cook the garlic I'm unsure if it will keep or whether I would have to do small batches and eat it immedeatly ( no problem there !) failing this any suggestions on picklit instead.

[alan refail]

Cold smoking is what you need; it doesn't alter the taste of the garlic cloves under the skin very much, and it does stink wherever you store them.
Hot smoking will cook the garlic and make it pretty useless.

For some tips have a look at this forum http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=9571.0