Alder residue

dbrown · October 13, 2005, 12:01:24 AM

We smoked salmon using Alder and it left a big patch of black tar-like substance on the chrome. Any suggestions on how to get it off and secondly, how to prevent. We want to smoke more salmon tomorrow.
Thanks
Janie

nsxbill · October 13, 2005, 01:13:45 AM

Chrome? Do you mean the V-pan? If so, get out the oven cleaner and give it a good douche. It will take it off pretty well.

Bill

There is room on earth for all God's creatures....on my plate next to the mashed potatoes.

Chez Bubba · October 13, 2005, 02:18:28 AM

Here's what I do every time, regardless of wood or food:

After the smoker has cooled, pull the racks, v-tray, bowl & flat tray & A) hose them off & let them sit in the yard (summer) or B) put them in the sink & cover with water (winter).

After an hour or so, load them into the dishwasher & give it a spin. Comes out looking great almost every time and a second tour will solve any issues if I've been extremely hard on them.

Kirk

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Thunder Fish · October 13, 2005, 04:40:51 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">put them in the sink & cover with water (winter).

After an hour or so, load them into the dishwasher & give it a spin. Comes out looking great almost every time and a second tour will solve any issues if I've been extremely hard on them.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Works for me every time,and the mis's won't bark about "black stuff" all over everything else [:)]

dbrown · October 13, 2005, 01:42:40 PM

Have had no problem with other woods but the alder will not respond to oven cleaner - not a problem from a smoking standpoint but looks bad - Janie

Indy · October 13, 2005, 05:28:17 PM

I smoke a lot of salmon, and I've had great luck, and great reveiws, using Apple pucks. I haven't had any residue problems either, so, if all else fails, and it gets to be a problem, there's always apple wood.

I do occasionally have to scrape residue off the burner pad on the smoke generator. It's the same type of carbon residue that you might find on the bottom surfaces of a barbeque grill. It comes off pretty easily with a scrape or two even with a stick, but I think that if I left it in place, that it would cause pucks to burn more slowly or unevenly. Is anyone else have those problems?

Indy

Oldman · October 14, 2005, 11:56:50 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I do occasionally have to scrape residue off the burner pad on the smoke generator. It's the same type of carbon residue that you might find on the bottom surfaces of a barbeque grill. It comes off pretty easily with a scrape or two even with a stick, but I think that if I left it in place, that it would cause pucks to burn more slowly or unevenly.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

At first I was using a fiber pad on a drill to clean off the burner. Now I use bubba pucks, and on a long smokin' item where the bubba pucks is on the burner it will cause the burner to become a "self cleaning oven!"

Olds

manxman · October 14, 2005, 02:04:34 PM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">At first I was using a fiber pad on a drill to clean off the burner. Now I use bubba pucks,<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I agree with what Olds says, using bubba pucks means the burner is a LOT cleaner at the end of each smoke, to me that is the biggest benefit of the bubba pucks though saving a couple of wooden pucks each time I use the BS is not to be sniffed at either!

Manxman.

Indy · October 14, 2005, 03:04:23 PM

I don't have any bubba pucks, but it's probably time I picked some up. It is irritating to have those half burned, or not burned at all, pucks after a smoke. Are "Bubba Pucks" simply stainless steel pucks? And second, who's got 'em for sale? We sound like an "info-mercial" don't we?

Thanks Indy

bsolomon · October 14, 2005, 04:33:57 PM

Well, you get them from Bubba, of course. Chez Bubba that is...
//www.chezbubba.com

Indy · October 14, 2005, 04:51:03 PM

I guess that makes sense.

Thanks,

Indy