Hello Gentleman,
I am doing my first salmon smoke, nothing big just a few pounds to see if it turns out.
How long do you actually use smoke, for a full 6 hours?
Thank you.
Are you doing hot or cold smoke.
HR
Hot smoke.
Someone that smokes a lot more fish than I do will be along shortly. I would say it depends on how much smoke flavor you want! I wouldnt smoke more than 1-2 hours myself.
I agree with 10.5 completely. 2-3hours of smoke / cook time should be more than enough.
There is another way to smoke the salmon if you had a PID. You would start low on temp and ramp up a couple of times from there and even with that it would not be 6 hours.
Good luck
HR
in the infamous Kummok salmon recipe he notes the following:
"Others that have used this recipe have applied smoke from 1.5-5 hours, depending on personal preferences. Most smokers are using 1.5-2 hours of smoke."
http://www.susanminor.org/forums/showthread.php?t=105
What Monty said.. ;D
Don't know how I got "infamous" (unless Monty's heard about how I love to exchange sheet metal with my FF union!) but I've settled on around 3.5 hours of smoke anymore, for the Kings, Reds, Chum in the size I process. (Silvers a skootch less cuz they're so danged dry) It's been a while since I wrote that recipe and, as I expect everyone to do, I've since modified it for my own personal taste....