jonathan18:

marlinz:

smoking gun

Something like that as seen on masterchef etc

That's exactly the one! For the life of me I couldn't find it - but having remembered today it's in a gun form, I'm sure that'll have found it.

It's even cheaper at Farmers, and at $70 I'm tempted http://www.farmers.co.nz/6174740 (or hopefully someone's bought it for me for Xmas!).

The question I have though is does this device actually preserve the food, or just impart a smoky flavour? The latter's fine if that's all you're after, but for a purpose like Tim's you'd need the former. Perhaps a combination of drying them out in the oven at a really low temperature then using something like this gun would work?