Artisan Cold Smoked Food at The Smoking Shed.

Sam Linsell. This Lady's smokin'.

Cold smoking is a cooking method used to preserve and enhance food. It is a delicate process, requiring know how and high quality ingredients. 

It is different from hot smoking, which ‘cooks’ the food at a high temperature over a short period of time. 

With cold smoking the temperature stays in the 20’s or early 30’s, and the result is food which retains its moisture and texture, while imparting a complex delicate smokiness. 

It could take hours or even days, depending on the product being smoked. 

Sam Linsell, food professional, marketer, and all round dedicated sort, is the first artisan cold smoker in South Africa. 

She has teamed up with a bloke called Laurence Woodburn (I kid you not, Woodburn) to create The Smoking Shed, South Africa’s first producers and providers of a range of artisan cold smoked food products. 

She does salmon, butter, garlic, cheese, mozzarella, chilli flakes, Atlantic sea salt and various other products. She is experimenting at the moment, and will cold smoke anything on request. No chemicals or additives are used in the process. 

I tried her cheeses and butter and I was in ecstasy. Normally I am not a big fan of smoked foods, as, to be honest, I find the results 

Smoked Pork Belly.

 all a bit to full on and indelicate. 

But Sam’s are the business. Delicate, complex smokiness invades your tastebuds, and allows the authentic flavour of the food to come through. 

At the moment Sam can be found with her Smoking Shed products at the Saturday Constantia Food Market, and she is rolling out to other markets and distribution. 

Sam and Laurence are exactly the kind of added value emerging food producer that we should be encouraging and supporting. Innovation and food excellence will lend support down the supply chain to all the other producers in the line (salt makers, pork producers, cheese makers, butter manufacturers etc). 

So, pretty please, get along there now and try some of her wonderful products. 

But get there early, she sold out last Saturday. 

www.smokingshed.com 

sam@smokingshed.com 

021 433 2625 

082 582 0888