Along the Yumeshima Kaido, Ikina island hides another opportunity to experience something unique during your cycling and sightseeing experience. Choose your favorite ingredients and learn about food smoking, taking at home a fragrant souvenir to enjoy when you want.
Choose your ingredients
During the smoking process, which takes about 2 hours, you will see how to ignite the smoker, wait for it to reach the right temperature, and set the food in it. During this process, you will see how the colour develops in its typical amber and brown. compare the taste of your favourite ingredients before and after smoking them.
Skilled craftmanship for a unique taste
Preserving food by smoking has a very long tradition. In this activity you will experience this essential, yet genuine process, where everything is handmade, even the food smoker was skillfully crafted by its owner using a propane tank. In order to achieve the correct browning and flavor, selected cherry chips are used. More food is smoked, the better! This activity is recommended to large groups.
There is also time for sightseeing!
While the food gets ready, you may also want to do some sightseeing along the Yumeshima Kaido. This relatively short route offers an encounter with the “real Japan”, with its friendly inhabitants, its beautiful natural landscapes, and historical attractions. And if you wish to cycle, t here is also a WAKKA bicycle rental option.
A fragrant souvenir
Cheese, sausages, boiled eggs, dried fish, etc. are the most common ingredients. Potato chips and pickled plums are also popular. Let’s try unexpected ingredients, such as tea or salt!
Details
| Duration | 2-3 hours |
| Price | 2,200 yen / person Free for preschoolers |
| Participants | 1 to 10 people |
| Included | Smoker usage, wood chips |
| Not included | Ingredients |
| What you need | Suitable clothes (consider that clothes may absorbe the smoke’s smell. |
| Venue | Kamijima Town, Ochi District, Ehime Prefecture The exact location will be confirmed after reservation |
| Pan | 1. Meet with the instructor, prepare the ingredients, put them in the oven ↓15 minutes 2. Waiting time: Yumeshima Kaido sightseeing / cyclimg ↓ 90 ~150 minutes 3. Taking out ingredients, tasting, packing ↓ 15minutes 4. End —————— Total: 120-180 minutes |
| Reservation | Up to one week in advance |
| Availabe | All Year |
| Age | All Ages |
| Payment methoids | At WAKKA reception (Cash, credit card, electronic payment) |
| Note | ・Prepare suitable clothes as they may absorb the smoke’s smell ・ Please prepare a take-out containers such as Tupperware. ・The smoke’s smell may make some people feel dizzy. Please refrain to directly smell the smoke ・ The smoking time varies depending on the ingredients. ・Ingredients with low water content will be ready in a shorter time. ・ You can take the finished product home, but please consume it as soon as possible. -Since it is smoked at 40° Celsius, the finished product will not be fully cooked. Please re-heat the raw smoked ingredients before consuming them. ・ Please follow the teacher’s instructions. |
