Smoking with corn cobs

[SoMo]

I saw a neat segment on a cooking show where they were smoking foods and one of the hosts said they cut fresh corn off the cob, soaked the cobs over night in water then used them to smoke all kinds of foods even cheeses. Just wondering if any one had ever tried this? I may do it to smoke some corn for Woodsheds smoked corn. Just waiting on my darned enzymes to get here, like a kid at Christmas time.

[Truckinbutch]

We used to use dry cobs for smoking cured meat along with hardwoods . Worked out quite well .

[waster]

I think in one of the Dakotas its a traditional meat smoking fuel. I tried it last Spring. The cobs got bugs and mold before they would dry, and the smoke flavor was mild at best. IMHO, hardwoods are better/easier. But if you have a silo full of cobs. that's another story.

[firewater69]

Give er hell SoMo, & let us know how it comes out.

[SoMo]

Give er hell SoMo, & let us know how it comes out.

Guess I'm gonna have to , talks cheap likkers sweet.

[Truckinbutch]

I think in one of the Dakotas its a traditional meat smoking fuel. I tried it last Spring. The cobs got bugs and mold before they would dry, and the smoke flavor was mild at best. IMHO, hardwoods are better/easier. But if you have a silo full of cobs. that's another story.

Situation I described was in the Appalachians :1700's to mid 60's . Field corn was semi dried down on the stalk and then the stalks were hand cut and gathered into shocks (teepee looking bundles standing in the field for further air drying) in September . Come October we took a team and wagon to the cornfield and shucked out the ear corn . Feller that had a big field of corn and a good crop would host a 'huskin bee' party that the whole neighborhood would come to to help shuck out the crop . Reglar damn parties , they were . Food , booze , music , mebbie some square dancin if the feller wasn't a Baptist .
>Bottom line was that the semi-dry corn got shucked out and throwed into the wagons and carted off to the corn crib to continue to dry throughout the winter . Shucked out fodder dot fed to the cows and hogs during the winter . The ears of corn got shelled in a hand cranked sheller as needed through the winter . All cobs got saved . Dried down they made good kindlin for the fires and a mild smoke for the prize hams and bacons to be served to 'quality' company on Sundays . Stood fine duty in the outhouse if ya ran short of pages in the Sears Roebuck or Monkey Ward's catalougue(the corset ads were always the last to go before ya went to the cobs ) . Jerk 3 feathers out of a chicken's tail for fletching and them cobs made the damnedest darts that a bunch of peckerheaded farm kids could ever throw at each other .
>Conventional machine harvesting today involves harvesting semi dry corn and then drying in heated silos . There is a difference .

[SoMo]

Good stuff TB,ain't nothing like wiping/scraping with a dry cob.
For this one they used fresh sweet corn cobs, with the corn being cut off and used or frozen old school style. Hardest part is finding good sweet corn this late in the year, maybe still some of the Olathe sweet corn from CO still to be had, with the enzymes coming there's lots to try with them now.