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Anyone have a recipe, brine, tips...anything at all?
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Just did a pile of tuna.
Brine was a cup of salt, cup of brown sugar, couple cloves of garlic and some red pepper flakes in a gallon of water. Cut tuna loins into medallions about an inch or two thick and brined for 2 hours.
Quick rinse, pat dry, and onto a rack to dry for an hour or two.
Cold smoked for about three or four hours and then into the oven at 170 for about 30 minutes. Heating element in my smoker took a chit so was a bit colder smoke than intended, hence the oven. Lol. Came out really nice but a bit salty. I've done the same brine with salmon for about 4 hours and not salty at all.
Tuna gets salty quick apparently, not sure about mackerel.
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Salt for an hour or so (course salt) quick rinse off, let dry, smoke them.
No brown sugar for Mackerel. You really don't need anything but salt.
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Fatass Jocko, Fillet & leave skin on, brine for 8 hours, rinse & dry. Applewood smoke for 2 hours, at 185*, remove & cool. Enjoy with mucho beer & good company. 
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Salt for an hour or so (course salt) quick rinse off, let dry, smoke them.
No brown sugar for Mackerel. You really don't need anything but salt. Any deviation from this deserves a beating... A few hard and fast rules for kippering (hot smoking) fish: Dry brines are a bad idea (the only bad idea here, but the coarse salt point makes a huge difference.) Brining for more than 90 minutes is a bad idea. Temperatures above 160F are guaranteed to fail. Fish without skin is a very different animal from fish protected on one side...
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Sitka....dry brining is cause for a beating? Except for Stlhead's course salt dry brining?
Just trying to get this sheeta straight!
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Dry brining is always different due to huge variables in the fish, temperature, and time. A chilled wet brine is reliable, period.
If you want your smoked fish to be different every time, go for the dry brining...
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Dry brining works fine. Art is showing signs of dementia again. Much escapes him.
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Hey Fatazzed JockStrap, how'd yours turn out ? I brined & smoked some snot rockets last weekend. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/dadcIO0.jpg)
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Dry brining works fine. Art is showing signs of dementia again. Much escapes him. Nothing heavy does...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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