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Title: Fish really oily??
Post by: Crazy Canuck on March 01, 2005, 02:18:56 AM

Help?

Did I take it out to soon?
Followed Kummock's recipe to a T. Fish came out oily. Used farmed Silver Salmon as no fresh fish available. Taste and color was awesome just found it to be finger licking good oily[:p]. (Just like KFC)

Interesting to know if it was my technique or if I got an oily fish? Any suggestions welcome.

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Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: oguard on March 01, 2005, 04:54:09 AM

Dan my fish turns out somewhat oily(a little bit anyway)it sounds if your drying time might be a little off.I think a little more time in the smoker would cure(no pun intended[:D]) this problem.One other thing I was wondering where you got the farmed coho salmon?

KEEP ON SMOKIN[8D]
Mike
BTW how is the weather up in the Northeast

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: Crazy Canuck on March 01, 2005, 05:17:52 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by oguard
[One other thing I was wondering where you got the farmed coho salmon?

BTW how is the weather up in the Northeast
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Picked up the Salmon at the local Co-op. Was the only Salmon available. Will talk to the butcher as to where he obtained it. Weather has been exceptionaly warm here. Plus 9 degrees C.

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Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: oguard on March 01, 2005, 05:34:31 AM

Dan sounds like the weather down her in Coqutlam.Let me know about the salmon when you find out.

KEEP ON SMOKIN
Mike

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: tsquared on March 01, 2005, 06:47:32 AM

Crazy Canuck (I think your handle is an oxymoron! We're all crazy!)Mine comes out oily too but it doesn't affect the taste. I keep a piece of paper towel handy so I don't lose the grip on my beer glass.
Tom

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: Crazy Canuck on March 01, 2005, 10:05:11 AM

Crazy Canuck (I think your handle is an oxymoron! We're all crazy!)
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Mike
It must be the BC Air or the oil in the fish. Have had smoked Salmon that wasn't dripping flavor. I grossed out the wife when I started licking the drippings off the floor[xx(]. As for the beer I just hook up to the intravenous.[:p][:p] Leaves both hands to eat with.[:)]

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DanR @ Fort St. John BC

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: Kummok on March 01, 2005, 04:59:22 PM

When I smoke the Silvers, I grade the finished product into "dry", "med", and "wet" categories since they end up coming out so different in moisture and oil content, depending upon each fish and where the pieces are placed in the smoker racks. Only happens with the Silvers.

The oily ones are the top of the food chain for me though [:p][:p], so you guys keep fillin' salmon with oil down there and scoot them up my direction....especially the Kings!! [:D][;)][:D][:p]

P.S. to CC....When you lick the oil off the floor, don't you get plywood splinters in your tongue[:D][;)][:D] (A little "living Alaskan style" humor there[:D][;)])

35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: tsquared on March 02, 2005, 02:19:32 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">so you guys keep fillin' salmon with oil down there and scoot them up my direction....especially the Kings!! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
We should charge that Alaskan so and so for every Canucklehead herring that is in those beauties he catches![:D] But then Fuzzy would charge us for the Washington state fish we catch in the spring.
Tom

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: oguard on March 02, 2005, 03:54:30 AM

T2 as long as we can all catch em,kill em and smoke em its all good.[:D][8D]

KEEP ON SMOKIN[8D]
Mike

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: psdubl07 on March 02, 2005, 04:54:58 PM

This happens to me every time I smoke salmon also, but especially w/ silvers.
Last time I had the smoker at only 90 degrees (measured by my Maverick, not the Bradley thermometer), and within an hour there was already fat puddling up on the top.

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: tsquared on March 02, 2005, 08:59:29 PM

Yep--they're fatty fish alright, but look at it this way--it's the kind of fat that makes your cardiologist [:)].
Tom

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: psdubl07 on March 02, 2005, 09:40:32 PM

It doesn't really bother me cuz it tastes so good. Just isn't real great for presentation.

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: Kummok on March 03, 2005, 02:36:52 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by psdubl07
 .....Just isn't real great for presentation.
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We give that a GREAT deal of thought up here in Homer, psdub, right before we scarf it up and conduct full volume beer off-gassing operations [:D][:D][}:)][;)][:D]

35 years of extinguishing smoking stuff and now I'm wondering WHY!
Kummok @ Homer, AK USA

Title: Re: Fish really oily??
Post by: Crazy Canuck on March 05, 2005, 01:45:13 AM

One other thing I was wondering where you got the farmed coho salmon?

Talked to Butcher was not farmed but was wild Salmon guess I miss read or had been reading to many threads on the forums. OOPS[:(!]

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