Cabinet for permanent outdoors use

[Kummok]

.....I started trying to smoke salmon about 5 years ago. Mainly cause I couldn't find a way to cook the stuff so it would taste good.LOL......

I definitely encourage your Bradley smoking endeavors Hiwayman....but I also offer one of the easiest ways to consistently cook great salmon. Knowing that salmon eating is an acquired taste for most, if you like smoked salmon, you should like this method of grilling.

Starting with 1 1/4" steaks, marinate them in a Ziplock freezer bag (or Reveo if you have one!) until they reach room temp, using Yoshida Gourmet Sauce (Costco). Then grill on med/high heat (depending upon your grill....just don't scorch them) for NO MORE than 3 minutes on each of two sides....total grilling time of 6 minutes. Start eating w/i 1 minute of taking off grill for optimum taste/texture.

I've found that the main reason most folks that like smoked salmon DON'T like "cooked" salmon is that the salmon is too often overcooked. Don't know if you've tried it this way but would be interested in hearing what you think if you do.......

[irishteabear]

I'd be really interested in hearing how your trial comes out.....plus there are a bunch of folks in the frozen tundra who would probably like to know as well. 

Do you keep some sort of heatsink in the smoker when smoking in colder weather?

SD

This is the first chance I've had to smoke since my last post.  Weather not cooperating with me this year so far.  I am smoking CB, almonds and kosher salt today.  It is 30F out today with winds from 10 to 35 mph gusts.  I started it (digital 4 rack) up today at 9 am with an internal temp of 38.  I set the temp for 320 just to see how quickly it got there.  In 15 minutes it was at 79.  I then wrapped it in a blanket.  At 30 minutes the temp had jumped to 212, then at 45 minutes it was at 270.  Within another 15 minutes the internal temp was at 320 which was verified using a probe dangled in the empty smoker at the midheight point.  I then opened the door and loaded it up.  The temp then dropped down to 170.  It took no time to get back up to 230 which is where I reset the temp to.   

I will definitely be doing the blanket routine again.  It got the temp up quite a bit faster in cold, windy weather, helped it hold the temp better as well as it seemed to help it get back to temp quickly after I opened the door.  I realize the real trial will be when I do another huge load of butts again.  At the rate the pp is disappearing around here, it won't be more than a month.