Maple Flavor Profile: The Infusion Of Mighty, Smooth, Sweet Food Smoke


Oh, the mighty maple! Maple wood is known to infuse mild, smooth, sweet components to foods cooked in or over it. With a wood smoke like maple, you will get no nasty aftertaste. Use maple wood with poultry and small game birds. Vegetables and cheeses are often smoked with maple. Here is the Maple Flavor Profile: The Infusion Of Mighty, Smooth, Sweet Food Smoke!

This hardwood is from the sugar maple tree and is also known as hard maple. Smoking with Maple bisquettes is much like smoking with other fruitwoods like cherry. It gives the food being smoked a sweet and subtle, balanced flavor that is excellent, especially for ham and bacon. Maple produces a lovely mellow smoke flavour which works well with pork and poultry are also great for salmon, arctic char and trout. This is the wood that is most recommended for smoking vegetables!

What Do Maples Bisquettes Pair Well With?

With a mildly smoky, sweet and subtle flavour, Maple Bisquettes are perfect for smoking turkeys, and enhancing the taste of poultry and game birds. Maple bisquettes especially pair well with poultry, fish, seafood, pork, vegetables, and cheese. These bisquettes are made with 99.98% natural organic hardwoods, and 0.02% collagen. When used in a Bradley smoker, the smoke is up to 4 times more pure than conventional smoker boxes and chips or pellets.

Maple Cured Smoked Salmon Recipe

This Maple Cured Smoked Salmon is the most delectable, smoky, melt in your mouth salmon you will ever have. While this process requires a little bit of time and patience, it is totally worth it!

Smoked Maple Glazed Ham Recipe

This is the ham glaze you use when you want to add a special touch to your festive baked ham! The most incredible sticky glaze with the subtle fragrance of maple and hint of holiday spices.

Smoked Maple Cured Bacon Recipe

Homemade smoked maple bacon is easy to prepare. Just remember that bacon is always cured with a sweet and savory mixture of sugar, salt, and pepper. You can use a smoker for the finishing touch. If you want to take your bacon from good to great, use real maple syrup instead of sugar.

Maple Smoked Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Recipe

A simple two-ingredient recipe that is absolutely delicious and beyond easy. A great recipe for a beginner, or something to add in when you’re smoking with maple bisquettes already.

Final Thoughts

And there you have it, our Maple Flavor Profile: The Infusion Of Mighty, Smooth, Sweet Food Smoke! When you think maple you think of lighter meats, such as pork, chicken, and other poultry. Maple is mostly used as a filler wood to knockdown stronger woods in a blend such as hickory and apple or is used to cook with when you really don’t want much smoke flavoring. Because Maple wood fiber is so dense, it can smoke at a very low temperature. This makes it the perfect wood for smoking cheese, which is the most common use of Maple when smoking.

Don’t forget to check out the Bradley Smoker Blog for more deliciously simple food smoking tips & tricks for your next cookout!