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Sawdust
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Gotta be Tyboo. He once was a teenage smoker. Long ago and far away, that is.
Dusty
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Larry H
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Check out 'Injun Candy' on Red Fox's web site, Sound Dreams. (Link on our front page.) He has pictures of his large cold smoker.
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CAVU
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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For the past 15 years I have used a home-made smoker for salmon and kokanee which works very well. It is a plywood box 30in square and 60in tall. It was originally sized to fit a small 24in range top which my neighbor was throwing out during a kitchen remodel. I put the range top in the bottom of my smoker to act as the heat source and used three S.S. oven racks I salvaged at the used appliance store to hold the fish. Put a small cast iron skillet on one of the small burners, fill it with alder chips and play with the burner control to get about 140 degrees. I used 2x4 corner posts and 1/4 in ply to keep the weight down. The only down side is I need a 220v outlet, which some people would not have. If you don't have 220v available use a small 120v hotplate for the heat source. This system has worked very well for me.
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DaveS
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| MOOSE wrote: | Does anyone have any construction plans for building a wooden, offset firebox smoker, or is everyone using commercial varieties? I saw one on the north shore of Superior last summer that looked like a small outhouse. Perhaps it was that it brought back fond memories, but I kinda liked the looks of it.
Al |
Al, there's a fella that sells seafood from his residence on Fidalgo Island, just after crossing the Twin Bridges over the Swinomish Channel on the way to Anacortes, Washington. Several years ago I stopped in there and he had a LARGE smoker much like you are describing behind his business. He has signs posted on SR 20 advertising his business. If one of our local C-Brats gets up there before I do, maybe they can pay him a visit and ask about taking some digital photos of it to post on this site, otherwise I'll try to get up there.
P.S. This one looks like a LARGE OUTHOUSE!
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Jon - CLou
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Cavu, it sounds like my "Little Shed House" smoker is identical to yours. I also use alder chips in a small cast iron skillet. The two burner hotplate works fine for me and I can smoke about 20 medium size fillets on 4 racks.
There's nothing like smoking fish in the Fall and Winter Time. Fun stuff!
Jon |
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CAVU
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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Jon,
I couldn't agree more! I just finished smoking the last three coho from last summer's fishing trip. I have had good luck freezing the fish whole, then later I thaw, fillet and smoke them. After smoking I have found that I can vacuum-pack and freeze them and they stay very tasty for as long as 6-9 months. I try to save one package for the first days snack during the next summer trip. |
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Jon - CLou
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Tip...For a great looking end product, use dark brown sugar instead of light brown. I usually do this for Christmas gifts. |
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Sea Wolf
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Great discussion! I've even heard of people making smokers out of refrigerators after gutting the electrical and refrigeration equipment and adding a firebox and smokestack. The door is probably a very handy feature in such an arrangement.
The mention of stainless steel racks by Ken brings to mind an admonition I heard once from a chemist who said not to use the regular refrigerator racks for heated food preparation, such as in a BBQ, as they are coated with the metal cadmium, which is definitely unhealthy for human consumption. I guess that rules them out for use in a smoker unless the fish is laid on aluminum foil or is somehow otherwise isolated from the cadmium. I'm not sure the foil would be a good idea either, since the fish has been treated with so much salt. Perhaps wooden racks could be used.
Just thought I'd mention the cadmium issue for everybody's safety.
"Smoke 'em if ya got 'em."
Joe.
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UncleRichie
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:10 am Post subject: smokers and such |
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Hi,
I have tried all the stuff for racks and wasn't to pleased with most of it the salt and heat ect release a lot of stuff from the metal racks and the fish stick like crazy to them my last idea seemed to work the best so far. I used and old down rigger cable and strung my own rack the fish dosen't have hardly any surface to stick to and there isen't a lot o metal to oxidze seems to be working great so far and they are super easy to clean.
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SENSEI
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| Jon - CLou wrote: | | Tip...For a great looking end product, use dark brown sugar instead of light brown. I usually do this for Christmas gifts. |
HMMMMMM, so how do I get on your Christmas list.....lol......
need some taters??????????????
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Jon - CLou
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Roger, you've always been on my Christmas list, you just never knew it. 
I'll tell Santa and his elves to get with it!
Jon |
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frank frati
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't keep the things lit. |
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Chuckpacific
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone have a good marinade recipe for tuna? I have a pellet grill that works nicely for smoking most anything.
Chuck |
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Redƒox
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Pat Anderson wrote: | | where is Red Fox's thread on Injun Candy, can somebody resurrect that one? |
did I hear someone mention "Sitka" 
Got the link for you ...
http://www.msnusers.com/SoundDreams/foodstuff.msnw
There's other wierd stuff on there.. might inspire some expermentin' if ya got a wood-stove I done up them pictorials years ago... when I was just a kid  Good luck! |
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Jeff and Julie
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| Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:38 am Post subject: |
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Thanks RedFox for the link to your injun candy!! I was born and raised in Sitka. We moved down to Washington when I was 14 and I have missed it ever since!  At least I can still get back up there from time to time. 
Julie |
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