Smoking Salmon / other fish

[Bithlord]

Anybody have any good links showing how to or advice for how to smoke fish?

I'm not looking to preserve the fish, so smoking / cooking it is fine. It's something I've been wanting to try, but have no idea how to approach.

Thanks,

Bith

[egghead]

I have only done this once and need to do it again - came out real nice

Here is the link
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9778

[Bithlord]

That looks good, and pretty simple too.

A couple of questions I have about the cold smoking: How did you keep the salmon from getting too warm during the smoking process? I know that the cold smoker using a soldering iron doesn't heat it too much, but it looks like it was just done in a kettle grill.

Did you do it during winter? I'm worried about microbes and such getting people sick.

thanks!

[egghead]

I did it in January in a mini big green egg. I'm no expert and you may want to do a little research, but I understand the curing takes care of all the bad guys.

[DATsBBQ]

Back in my teens growing up in Minnesota I smoked suckers and tulabees frequently. Here is a good link for the preservation of fish. Smoking is covered towards the end of the page. http://www.extension.umn.edu/distributi ... J1087.html" target="_blank" target="_blank .

Note, smoked fish still needs refrigeration.
Note, curing only prevents botulism. Other bad guys may still exist.

[mfilter2]

Oh man, you smoked Suckers? I'm from MN as well and always wondered if anyone had a recipe or had smoked the lips off of one othem! Can you post here how you did it? BTW, what is a Tulabee?

[DATsBBQ]

Oh man, you smoked Suckers? I'm from MN as well and always wondered if anyone had a recipe or had smoked the lips off of one othem! Can you post here how you did it? BTW, what is a Tulabee?

A sucker smokes up well as it is an oily fish. Course the spear holes are unappealing in the final product.

Tulabee (misspelled) here http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... 29,r:0,s:0" target="_blank

We'd catch them using grubs (meal worms) just as the ice was breaking up and just before sunrise. Once I was stranded for 4 hours waiting for the winds to shift to send the ice back to the shore.