By Brittany Caffet
My Dad might not be what you’d think of as the “typical” father. He works in the oil patch, is covered in tattoos, and rides a Harley. That being said, he does have a lot of things in common with other fathers! He is very hardworking, loves his children and grandchild with all of his heart, and is IMPOSSIBLE to buy gifts for!
A tool box? He already has 10 just like it in the garage.
A new sweater? He’ll wear it a few times and then go back to dressing in his old favourites.
A ball glove? It will take months to break it in properly so he might as well just keep using his old one!
When I heard about the The Smoking Gun by Breville I knew that it would be the perfect gift for Dad!
My family loves a good BBQ, but it isn’t often that we get to enjoy one during the winter months (which, in Saskatchewan, seems like half of the year)! The Smoking Gun by Breville allows you to enjoy the taste of summer all year long! The Smoking Gun comes with 2 different types of flavoured wood chips and a number of recipe cards – perfect if you are looking for some inspiration! The appliance allows you to easily infuse all kinds of food and drinks with smoky flavours. It’s so simple to use – just load the gun with wood chips, light the chips on fire, blow smoke into a sealed container with the food of your choice inside, infuse, and enjoy!
To put The Smoking Gun by Breville to the test, Dad and I decided to make hickory smoked pulled pork, potato salad, and caesars with applewood smoked bacon!
Everything turned out so deliciously and we had so much fun using the appliance together! Both of us were amazed at the deep smoky flavour we were able to give the foods in such a short amount of time.
Once everything was prepared, Dad had the urge to smoke more foods… so we put some applewood chips in the gun and smoked the potato salad! We tried it (albeit apprehensively!) and it tasted AMAZING! He spent the rest of the afternoon coming up with a list of foods he would love to try smoking in the future.
The Smoking Gun by Breville is the perfect gift for the father who has everything. Dad and I can’t wait to bring it out again on Christmas day and have some more fun smoking all of the foods that we can get our hands on!
The Smoking Gun by Breville can be found at Breville.ca, Best Buy and Canadian Tire for $129.99 and Amazon.ca for $94.96.
One of our readers is going to win The Smoking Gun by Breville this holiday season! Gift it to someone under the tree or use it to wow your guests this Christmas! To enter, simply fill in your name and email address in the form below and click BEGIN! Then leave a comment below telling us what you would want to try this on first!
The first thing that came to my mind is ribs, smoking ribs.
Oh this looks like so much fun! I would make smoked chicken first!
I would love to try some cheese and wings of course, this would be great to have the possibilities are endless!!
First salmon
We would first make smoked salmon!
I’ve seen a recipe for smoked buttertarts somewhere on the interwebs. If I win I’ll try that first.
Smoked fish, any kind of fish would be yummy! My husband would love this.
The first thing that came to mind for me was how easy this would be to infuse new smokey flavours into my dishes.
My first dish would be salmon!
mmm Smoked burgers!
I woud love to smoke salmon!
My husband would love this! Bring on the ribs!
I would want to try Smoked salmon on my first try.
Ribs first
Smoke Capelin and Salmon comes to my mind.
The first thing that came to my mind was bacon.
The first thing that came to mind for me was actually dessert! And I’m glad to see there are some great dessert ideas out there for this tool! I would gift this to my stepdad and I know he’d love to make some amazing things with this – he is a genius in the kitchen!
I think I would make ribs first, or maybe salmon?
The first thought that came to me was smoked fish. We love fish in our house and smoked trout or pickerel would be wonderful.
I would love to smoke some fish first, but there are so many options! Thanks
The first thing that came to mind was smoked Ribs
Would love to use this to make smoked ribs – yum!
smoked salmon
Salmon was my immediate thought, followed by ribs, cheese and…………………. the list is endless. 🙂
Id love to smoke some cheese
I think I would have to try smoking some cheese first.
I would smoke some fish….actually, when I showed this to my husband, he said he would smoke some fish!
I would like to try it with some salmon.
first thing I thought of was smoked ribs they would be so good
I could think of many things to smoke with the smoking gun but the first things I would try would be some smoked chicken and then some pork chops.
I would love to smoke some salmon first.
I would like to taste what it would do with nachos
Ribs are the first thing that comes to my mind! I would so love to have one of these!
Smoked salmon sushi
I would love to smoke some fish
Smoked ribs!! I’m drooling thinking of it!!
My husband would make a steak.
I’d love to pair it up with my Instant Pot and create something fab… like ribs – quick AND smoky!
I would definitely use this to smoke some ribs!
I’d try to do some boneless skinless chicken and even some BBQ sauce
I would smoke some salmon!
I’d love to make smoked chicken wings, I love them so much and I’ve never seen them in Canada, not where I live anyway.
I think I would try smoked salmon
I tried a dish that had smoked noodles in it and it was delicious. I would like to recreate that with The Smoking Gun.
I would love to make smoked salmon !
It is something for Dad this holiday so we will use it to make his favourite grilled ribs in smoked barbecue flavour.
I would love to try the Smoking gun with pulled pork.
I think I would have to smoke chicken first
Ham & cheeses 😋
I would smoke some cheese.
I would love to smoke my own cheese.
I love chicken wings so thats the very first thing I would try
This is oddly interesting! My husband is usually pretty picky when it comes to HIS kitchen tools, but I think he would like this! Of course, he would like to smoke some deer meat – either pepperoni, sausages, steaks. Something like that!
I would love to gift this to my boyfriend, I’m sure he would choose a chicken recipe to start with!!!!
smoked salmon!!!
I’d make creme brulee first!
If I were to keep it I’d use it for sauces, ribs & brisket but my uncle would love it so I’d probably gift it to him!
I was thinking fresh salmon, yum.
chicken
I thought of ribs when I heard smoking gun
smoked pork roast I had it before and it tastes so good
So many fantastic options to try first, hard to choose! The hickory smoked pulled pork and applewood smoked bacon sound sooo good! Those would definitely be at the top of our list! Thank you very much for this chance! 🙂
Smoked Ribs!
I would like to try smoked salmon
I would love to try this on cheese, a smoked grilled cheese sounds amazing right now.
I’ve been looking into one of these smoking guns for my husband for Christmas already. This past summer him and my neighbor were obsessed with smoking absolutely everything. The favourite attempt was smoked mozzarella but the smoker got too hot so this would be perfect for it.
Smoked veggies like broc, corn, then tofu!
Smoked BBQ Ribs!
I thought about having smoked haddock and ribs , yummy and also what a great idea this is 🙂
I want to make smoke ribs. Our family love ribs
The first thing that came to mind when I read this post was ribs…. yum. I think they’d turn out so good with this
I’m wondering if it could be used to smoke salmon? That would be awesome! Thanks for the chance to win such a neat gift – I know a few guys I could gift this to! 🙂
My first thing might seem kind of obvious but it was ribs! 🙂
I want to try a pork roast.
I would first like to try out some smoked salmon.
Pulled pork!
Smoked Bacon, my Dad always smoked bacon,
I would like to smoke some bacon.
I’d smoke anything from meat , fish to nuts or cheese. Who doesn’t like the flavor of smoke?
I would smoke fish first. I am sure that my hubby would start with ribs.
I bet smoked cheese would be amazing or chocolate cake.
Salmon first for sure!
Steak. Mmmm smoky steak.
It would be smoked cheese! Thanks
ribs!
This would be for my 13 y/o son…he is a master chef. …
I thought about how much I do like smoked meat…especially fish!
I would definitely make a smokey pulled pork.
Smoked cheese was my forst thought!
My sisters dad hunts every year…he might like this. I would gift it to him if I won.
First thing I though of was ribs!!
so many possibilities really, but I’d love to win this for my dad! He would really enjoy using it.
I thought about smoked salmon.
I’m sure my husband would make smoked pork chops first
This would be a fun new toy for the hubby. we have a smoker, and it is his pride and joy!
Smoked salmon
A good smoked rack of ribs is what came to mind.
I want to smoke cheese and them make cheesy bread.
First thing would be ribs.
A roasted smoked pork! Lol…we love roasted anything really.
i would love to make smoked salmon or smoked cheese!
i think i would try this on deer roast first
Definitely Salmon. This would be amazing!
As soon as I read this I thought of my dad. He would love to receive this over the holiday. I can see him smoking meats and lots of other things. I’d definitely borrow it to smoke potato salad. Yev potato salad you made sounds incredible!
mmmm, ribs, or pulled pork. What a great idea
The first thing that came to my mind was ribs!
I would wan,t to try chicken first since we eat that the most often, but cheese and potatoes would be delicious to do too!
That would make a great jerky!
The first thing that came to mind to smoke is ribs!
i want to smoke turkey
Smoked Salmon!
My dad came to mind first, he loves that sort of thing. He would probably smoke some fish or some pork
Smoking scallops is what I would like to create first with The Smoking Gun.
Smoked salmon! 😋
Smoked chicken