"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Gill Smith wrote:
>>
>> Maybe high-end products get real smoke.
>>
>> Supermarket 'smoke' comes out of a bottle, so I'm told.
>>
>> Yuk.
>
> But it's natural wood smoke passed through water,
> purified, and sanitarily bottled. Nothing there
> that would be any worse than the normal constituents
> of smoke. Carcinogenic tars have been removed,
> so you get the smoke flavor with much of the
> cancer risk removed.
>
> Compared to food smoked over wood or charcoal fires,
> the cancer risk is lower and the quality may be equal.
> Quality is certainly more predictable and reproducible
> in a liquid smoke condensate product manufactured
> to a standard potency, for addition to mass-produced
> products, like a million pounds of turkey drumsticks.
>
> On the other hand, if the Food Police needed an easy
> target, this is low-hanging fruit. How is it possible
> that bottled liquid smoke preparations are offered
> for sale on retail shelves at supermarkets and as
> food industry ingrediants, after passage of the
> Delaney amendment? I find it difficult to believe
> that any smoke condensation product could be
> non-carcinogenic under the terms of the Delaney
> amendment.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaney_clause

But there again Grade A heart attack food gets sold openly in
supermarkets.....

I've just gotten into the habit of getting my meat as far up the food chain
and
as far away from any processing as my budget allows.


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