Big fan of Adam Ragusea here.
He does a great job balancing useful cooking information, science, and his perspective on the sometimes overreaction to and misunderstanding of that science. He's also really good at integrating the sponsor ads smoothly.
In this video, Adam goes through what's in liquid smoke, how you can make it at home, and how you can use it in food.
I'll warn you that this is a much more complex look at the side products of incomplete combustion, something we barely touch upon in our high school chemistry courses at Princeton. I do mention that it's officially complete combustion that produces just carbon dioxide and water vapor but that incomplete combustion can produce other products like carbon and carbon monoxide.
