This might not be the best for roast potatoes (or who knows, maybe it would be good), but I have made my own smoke flavoring using bread crumbs.
Used my smoker that I smoke salmon and chicken in, smoked bread with hickory chips, and those bread crumbs had a great hickory smoke flavor. I used it mostly for mixing in with ground beef for burgers, and meat loaf.
For potatoes, maybe melt butter, put in a spice or 3 (saffron might be a good one), brush the flavored butter on bread and bake at 150-200 an hour or 2, you would end up with nicely flavored dried bread that you could crumble into bread crumbs. |