This blog post from back in 2009 details how Vince makes smoked salmon. We use a Cookshack Smoker, the Smokette SM009-2 that we bought in 2005. It is expensive (to me) but we have used that little smoker so very much through the years. A few years ago, we wanted more space and better cold smoking options so we bought the Cookshack Supermoker SM045. When I smoke bacon or buckboard bacon, it’s nice to be able to do a lot more at once, plus it’s fun to cold smoke cheese so we use the larger one occasionally for those things but for the most part, we still use the little Smokette the most.
If you don’t have a smoker and can keep a grill at a temp in the 200 degree range, that will work just fine too.
My preference for wood is cherry or apple. I think mesquite or hickory at too strong but that’s my opinion and you know what they say about those! 🙂
vivoaks says
We bought a smoker/grill years ago that uses charcoal and I’ve loved the meats we’ve gotten from it. I’d love more smoked meats, but when we were raising the kids we never had the money for anything extra. (In fact, a lot of times we ran out of money before we ran out of month!). I’d love an electric smoker that I wouldn’t have to stand watch over all the time. . Maybe one of these days…. Oops! Gotta run… I’m drooling!! 🙂
Cilla says
I don’t like hickory or mesquite either so use apple, cherry or pecan.
Teri says
Can you please share Vince’s recipe for the smoked salmon. We sre planning to smoke one and I would love a good recipe. And I trust your recipes…..
Linda B says
Thank you for pointing out vince’s salmon recipe. I think I need to go way back in the blog to see what else I have missed in the earlier years.
Carol C says
Thanks for posting Vince’s method. I did not remember it being in the blog and was going to ask you if he would write a post and share how he does this. He must have read my mind! LOL We love smoked salmon and smoked pounds and pounds of it on salmon fishing trips to Alaska. It’s is fabulous. We do it mostly the same–rock salt and brown sugar.
Cheryl Lorence says
Thank you so much for the link to his instructions. I remembered you had posted it long ago and was not successful in my search for it. I was just about to ask you to share that post again. You must have read my mind! I have some salmon I want to smoke so this was perfect timing. Thanks again.