Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

RecTec 700 just ordered, looking forward to set it and forget it...

 

Smoked salmon and trout, and a pot of chili for lunch this week

 

I bought one in March and it was the best purchase I've ever made. Change the foil every time and get a cheap shop vac to vacuum out the fire pot every couple long cooks. Also the front shelf and the competition cart are worth every penny.

 

Chili recipe??

 

Talk about the salmon a bit. Brine? Time/temp/wood?

 

Welcome to the club @jmdaniel

 

Yeah, I opted for the Gold Package, which comes with the shelf and cart, as well as the smoke box and some other goodies. I'm moving on from about a dozen years of cooking on a Weber Smoky Mountain, and looking forward to the consistency of the temp. The Weber wasn't bad, but had been thinking about making some modifications to it, to make it a bit better, in terms of keeping temps in range. Last week, I ran across that article in Men's Journal, where the guy who runs his own bbq business in Houston mentioned that he loves his P&S pellet smoker, got me to thinking, if pellets work, (on occasion), for a guy that makes a living smoking meat, they'll work for me! A visit Saturday to the esteemed @Misplaced Nebraskan just confirmed the action!

 

Absolutely! As my time on this earth dwindles down, I need to maximize it! Easy peasy, you so cheesy!

 

1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp dill
2 tbsp brown sugar
I use a fork to break up any brown sugar clumps and mix the dry brine

Rinse fish, pat dry with a paper towel, and sprinkle on brine and let sit in the fridge for 1 hour
250 degrees for 1.5 hours, I used mesquite or hickory (only chips I had)

 

I tried a 3 bean chili mix from ALDI, but added 1 can of tomato paste, 1 can of Ro-Tel, and 1lb of ground turkey

 

Thanks. Never did a dry brine on fish before.

 

I like it, it's quick and easy!

 

I've done dry rubs of beef and pork and it worked great. With fish I like to have a pellicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellicle_(cooking)

 

just like yours that easy bake doesn’t have WiFi either.

 

But my RT 700 does!

 

One of these years @Misplaced Nebraskan is going to come after all of us for messing with him. We won’t even know it because no WiFis for him to post about it before hand.

 

Nah, he's a great guy. I was over at his shanty right after his Cornholers gave one up to Purdon't, and he was cheery!

 

That's called WHISKEY

 

He knows I’m just messing with him.