Commercial products are made using a range of reactors from rotary calciners, [6] heated screws, [7] batch charcoal kilns, [8] to fast pyrolysis reactors. Liquid smoke is a water-soluble yellow to red liquid [1] used as a flavoring as a substitute for cooking with wood smoke while retaining a similar flavor.

It contains wood-derived chemical compounds of higher chemical polarity such as those found in carboxylic acid, aldehyde, and phenol chemical classes. Stubb’s Hickory Liquid Smoke will give your Bar-B-Q the sweet, smoked flavour of real hickory smoke taste.The fact is that they have produced something here which they say has something of the flavor and properties similar to the curative properties of smoke; they get it out of wood and they get it by distillation and it turns out to be a substance like, if not exactly identical with pyroligneous acid. Further, he described the use of the water insoluble tar fraction as a wood preservative and documented the freezing of the wood vinegar to concentrate it. Method of producing from wood tar a liquid smoke product for use in food processing, and product of said method". The application of liquid smoke to food has grown to encompass a wide variety of methods [15] employing thousands of commercial formulations worldwide. Hot Ones – Sauces as featured on the popular YouTube channel FirstWeFeast Hot One’s show where celebs join Sean Evans in eating a progressively spicy chicken (or vegan) wings.

Today, these products stand as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) in the United States and may be used at levels necessary to produce the intended technical effects.

Stubb’s never uses artificial flavors or colors from artificial sources, giving your barbecue the authentic, Legendary Texas Flavor that Stubb was known for. Liquid smoke is still referred to as wood vinegar, and is made and used indigenously in places including Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and Southeast Asia. H. Wright inaugurated the era of commercial distribution of pyroligneous acid under a new name, liquid smoke. Evaluation of the Health Aspects of Smoke Flavoring Solution and Smoked Yeast Flavoring as Food Ingredients (PDF).