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I see a 'smoked fish farmin' video in the future!

Perhaps some "foder"

hahahahahahahahahahaha.

By the looks of you these days, this was atleast 15-20 years ago! Lmao

Regardless of age he always looks like a dick with ears to me.

You are hooked on the human penis. Seems odd to me but if thats your thing, enjoy.

When he starts off with brilliances like "good smoking size" you have to wonder what a "bad" smoking size would be...

Not really but I do know a dick head when I see one.

Actually was referring to big Jim's series of ".... farmin" videos.

Oh, missed them.

IB,

I love smoked fish...............especially if it's free. And I did say I'd try it, but not how many times. That would depend on taste more so than texture, which does enter into the equation tho.

I cannot agree more with you about the choice of wood for salmon. If available, alder is the only one, therefor no choice at all.

As to the wonders of smoking in a Little Chief, Big Chief, Youngster Chief, Wooden box, and so on, I'll use what's available. When I was a poor starving student in NorCal my landlady had an old dead refrigerator out back. I took a look at it one day and found out it was just a shell. An ex boyfriend had gutted it down to the sheet metal, fitted it with some racks, and turned it into quite the passable smoker. It held a bunch, that's for sure. And it operated on the principle of an old Weber or some such kettle in the bottom into which a good dose of alder chunks was burned to coals, the racks filled, more soaked alder chunks added to smolder, the door shut, and then good scheidt would come out.

When I moved up the hill after graduating and finding my woman, the landlady was nice enough to let me take the smoker. Wal-Mart and Winco would have turkey wars around the holidays, like the old gas wars. Prices would drop, sometimes daily, as a loss leader. One season they got down to $0.12 cents a lb!! A starving student/new graduate with loans to pay back, can buy a good bit of turkey at that price..............I did! Whole smoked turkeys were a mainstay during the holidays, the carcasses turned into soup of course.

I did a bunch of albacore while there also, as it was cheap buying it directly from the guys at the docks, no middlemen of course. One batch was deemed so good, it went with me to a Thanksgiving dinner pot luck..........................there was turkey left over but no albacore and folks were asking where they could get more.

A few salmonid types were done on that thing also. Perhaps some of the tastiest fish were herring from a class collecting trip. When I asked the professor (My advisor) for some to take home, he asked what for. When I told him I loved kippers but had never smoked herring for myself he said grab a bucket and bring me back some! As an aside, my advisor called me the "optimal forager" as I was seen on multiple occasions gathering mussels and barnacles from the rocks below the marine lab, along with other goodies anywhere I could. Free food is manna from heaven for starving students.

Brine? Simple is best, and the one I posted earlier is as simple as I can get it. A short soak in some salty water works for me. I have nothing against the sweeteners or the soy types, but I like my fish the way the Natives did it for thousands of years, alder smoked and not much more.

I will admit, you Alaskan fellas know your fish for sure. I had many wonderful meals from the locals when I worked in SE for a year or so. And my little Jr Weber worked in a pinch too.

I like smoked fish, especially salmon, so much I've tried it everywhere I've seen it. I certainly would try sharpies stuff, preferably pre-Miracle Whip, and you guys' too. Hell, I even tried ciscos from a little place in Dunkirk NY and would love to have some again.

I've said it before on the 'fire.....My favorite fish??.....................the one that's on my plate.

Please forgive me for my lack of discriminating tastes when it comes to smoked fish.

Geno

Small ones, (those are cooked and eaten as the slabs are too thin and yo end up with crispy chips like iron benders mistake)

Really huge ones (those are canned) and we make salmon patties, etc. with those.


This isnt that hard folks. When you have access to a lot of salmon, you use them in lots of ways. Just smoking them is akin to doing it wrong when there are so many way to enjoy salmon.

It left out clueless... otherwise it is perfect.

Its cute when you try so hard. Like when a little kid says “hostible” and “pasgetti”

Now it might sound like I am mocking you and being dismissive of your opinion and patting you on your head. That’s because I am since I hold no regard for it. (aside from the entertainment value I find in it)

I will continue to allow you to entertain me. Dont disappoint me.

No need to apologize geno. You’re one of the good guys.

Any of you fellas ever smoke clams?

No but Id like to smoke some razors. You ever smoke any?

Damn! That's funny!

And spot on!