Hog salmon Done

Keymaster · August 06, 2011, 06:45:54 PM

This was a long 9 hour smoke (2hours of alder smoke and seven dry time). I used Kummoks recipe as always. This salmon was so thick I was getting worrried after four hours and opened the door and it was a sweaty white fish but Kummocks recipe pulled threw and another top notch batch of salmon.
The hunk o fish

Got advice from the forum in cutting this hunk o fish

Into the smoker it goes

All done

Yes, the taste test was very much satisfactory!!

Kummok · August 06, 2011, 10:40:16 PM

Way to turn fish into gold, Keymaster! Glad it turned out great for you....tough choice on whether to grill the fresh fat ones or smoke them...either way a good decision ;)

OU812 · August 07, 2011, 07:36:29 AM

Oh Yaaaaaaa!

That there salmon looks awsome!

muebe · August 07, 2011, 07:39:15 AM

Oh WOW!! That Salmon looks great ;D

Quarlow · August 07, 2011, 02:00:23 PM

You can be proud of that fish for sure.

Tenpoint5 · August 07, 2011, 02:13:00 PM

Wow that turned out exceptionally well

pikeman_95 · August 12, 2011, 08:49:25 PM

Very good looking fish. What do you suppose that fish weighed!! ::) Because I like the flavor of Kummoks brine so well I might have split the fish through the middle so they would not have been so thick and you would have more of the surface with kummoks brine on it.
KC

Keymaster · August 13, 2011, 06:10:54 AM

Quote from: pikeman_95 on August 12, 2011, 08:49:25 PM
Very good looking fish. What do you suppose that fish weighed!! ::) Because I like the flavor of Kummoks brine so well I might have split the fish through the middle so they would not have been so thick and you would have more of the surface with kummoks brine on it.
KC

I think he said it weighed 45# Kirby, it was too thick to smoke, it was good but I like the smaller fish for smoking.

RFT · August 13, 2011, 12:33:27 PM

My god man that is a huge Salmon 8) :o :)

Looks great.

Kummok · August 13, 2011, 11:17:25 PM

Big salmon, little salmon all end up the same size in my smoker......like KC said it's all about more surface for the sweet/smoky glaze (for my own taste, that is...)

Edit: I should point out that the middle (2nd) picture is "steak size"...that is the size I use for grilling & blackening. When smoking, these steaks then get reduced into the "smoking size" shown in the upper (1st & 3rd) pics.

Keymaster · August 14, 2011, 06:07:26 AM

If I do More Big stuff I will definately cut it up like your pictures Kummock ;)