Thread: Food and Drink What's for dinner? Here's mine...
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Old 07-22-2014, 11:20 AM   #2369
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FMB, this is not correct. The smoke ring isn't caused by smoke at all. It actually has no smoke flavor. It is caused mosty by Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen Monoxide, which are common combustion emissions. These chemicals prevents the hemoglobin and other natural chemicals in the meat from turning color, which would be sort of a brown/gray color. These gases only penetrate so far, so the pink ring only goes so far. The term smoke ring is a misnomer.

This doesn't happen unless smoke is involved, though... So maybe that's why it's called smoke ring.
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