Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: BWCA Food and Recipes :: Smoking Trout
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Jaywalker |
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doubledown |
As our trip approaches, I am having second thoughts about spending most of a day smoking fish so that will have to be a game day decision. I may opt with short brine and a hot smoke i/o cold smoke. I'll let you guys know the results. I second the comment about wet brining (or marinade) being a great way to achieve a specific taste. |
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BuckFlicks |
It works particularly well for salmon, so I would assume it would for trout as well... and that sounds darn tasty. Now I want to smoke some trout. |
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marsonite |
quote doubledown: "quote Jaywalker: "If you give this a try I hope you can get some photos and report back. I'm really interested in trying this and have read up a bit but always backed away mostly because of the time involved. Are you thinking of brining the fish? " Dry brining also works well. Here's one way to do it: Simple smoked salmon with dry brine |
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doubledown |
quote Jaywalker: "If you give this a try I hope you can get some photos and report back. I'm really interested in trying this and have read up a bit but always backed away mostly because of the time involved. Are you thinking of brining the fish? " Jaywalker, Yeah. I'm planning on doing a brine. I'll probably do it in a ziploc overnight and have that submurged below 45' of water to replicate a fridge as much as possible. If it works, I'll post pictures. |
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doubledown |
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marsonite |
I know a guy that used a setup like this to smoke suckers. I believe he had a propane burner but the idea is the same. |
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Savage Voyageur |
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doubledown |
What is your setup and what kind of wood do you prefer that is available? |
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doubledown |
One a separate, somewhat related note, I did cure about 3 pounds of venison jerky using dry brine & wet marinade recipes and they were great "dude fuel" all week. It took a lot of time as I do all my curing in my oven, but it was well worth the result, especially considering we stayed on Ima Lake the first two nights and couldn't find any fishing honey holes at all (it was full moon and we night fished!). Hoping to resurrect this post in a year with smoked trout results. Thanks for all the advice. |