Smoked Salmon EditionToday we cut the fish and make the brine.
Just some Atlantic crap from the store. Not worth doing anything with but smoking. In fact, it kind of stinks. Right on the edge. Sell by date is tomorrow. I didn't get a discount or anything.
I like an Asian style brine. Brown sugar and soy sauce. I added some honey too.
This measuring cup is older than I am. The real shit.
Onion powder, garlic powder.I couldn't tell you amounts. This is one of those things I just eye and it always comes out right.
And water.
Gotta rinse that stink off it.
>>21844108What will you do with the bottom part?
They didn't scale this very well if at all. I guess I have to do everything.No pinbones though. So someone did something. That's probably why it stinks. Sitting out for too long while some schmo slower than me picks bones while the fish is not on ice.
>>21844123If it didn't stink I'd roast it in the oven and eat it. Belly strip is my favorite next to the tail and cheeks. But it reeks.So into the brine it goes.
So this is how I do it. I make little fillets and then score them so there's more surface area and the brine penetrates faster as does the smoke. My Little Chief is barely holding on. It's rigged up with electrical tape and the door is gone and the wood chip pan burned through long ago.So I will be using a tuna can full of chips and keeping a close eye on it. Takes most of the day if I keep rotating it so each rack gets some time near the bottom. I like having something that barely works and yet always produces great smoked fish. Because of course you can just do this out in the woods or near the beach with no equipment at all.
Ol' Trusty here. I spray painted it flat black because it's such a dark horse. As soon as it makes a bad batch I'll get a new one.
Rubbed down the week's beef.
That's it for now. Fish needs to soak overnight and then sit uncovered without brine to form a "glaze". And only then will it be smoked.My friends don't even know this is coming. I always give a lot of it away. It's so rich I can't eat it all.
love these kind of threads godspeed op
>>21844272We have to keep it alive until the fish is done smoking. Thanks for the bump.
>>21844137>rubbed downit is referred to as 'dry brining' now you fossil
>>21844308Not in my house. There's only one kind of brining and it's wet. Brine as a noun is liquid by definition, isn't it? Doesn't it refer to sea water? "Briny". I am proud to be a fossil when most of the young people I encounter are retarded.
>>21844310kek
>>21844113You should toss it. You clearly know nothing about fish. That is so far away from fresh that it's not worth eating.
>>21844118>Onion powder, garlic powder.Actual onions and actual garlic tastes a million times better on fish. Imagine being arrogant enough to make a cooking thread and being a lazy piece of shit who cuts corners.
>>21844120The sink confirms you live in a poverty stricken third world shit hole
>>21844272Fuck off generic reply bot
The Michelin Star standards I'm held to by the troll is actually humorous to me. Especially when it's wrong. Like assuming fresh and raw ingredients are always the better option for every job. Making a cooking thread does not require arrogance. Have you seen the other threads out there? LOL You should be kissing my butt for doing this work. For making fresh O.C. for you to obsess over.Pucker up, Buttercup.
>>21844333everyone knows that fresh onion/garlic and dried onion/garlic have a different flavor profile, and one is not intrinsically better than the other. They're basically different ingredients.Why are there so many assholes on this board recently? See also >>21844335
>>21844335Are you shitting me? This sink what now? I have a retractable spray nozzle and it's TWO sinks. Stainless steel. This sink is older than you are. In fact I just had new drains and pipes put in so that it may last another 50 years.
>>21844367Thank you. Chopping up fresh onions and garlic for a brine would be far less effective for what I want to do here. I ALWAYS have garlic and onions on hand. I use them in almost every dish. If they're not in something it's on purpose. There are a lot of assholes, but lately this one specific buttface makes it his business to launch weak and inaccurate insults at people who make cook-alongs. He's probably getting off on reading this. It's more attention than anyone's paid him in a long time. Trolls are a wretched, pitiable lot.
Why do you keep making new threads when your old threads are still upNot getting enough attention?
>>21844108>expensive knife>walmart brand oillol
>>21844414
I pulled this out of the basement freezer. Nearly a year old. I'm going to thaw it out and roast it up. I have a shaker of some "smokehouse bbq maple" salt blend that I don't really know what to do with. I could bury it in my old rub mix. I could put this in the smoker too, though it's not the kind of smoker that gets really hot and cooks anything.
>>21844339smdftb cooklet
>>21844310basedever tried making gravlax? you need better quality fish for that though. definitely my favourite way for preparing salmonids. smoking is a close second
>>21845145Yes, I've made lots of gravlax over the years.
Drained off but still wet with brine.
This will sit overnight again, uncovered. And tomorrow we will smoke it outside.
Based
You should add some white wine or any clear cooking alcohol like mirin to your marinade. Alcohol removes fishy stink like magic
>>21844330I know you're trolling, but it would be wrong to waste food. That's not respecting the life of the salmon which was taken from the ocean to be food. I openly admitted from the start that it was not fresh and had a surface odor. I rinsed it and at that point it would have been fine to cook well done and eat. But I bought it for the express purpose of smoking it, and it's totally okay for that. I've returned fish in that condition before, but I know they just throw it out. It would be safe to wash it and cook it and use it for something immediate, but a business wouldn't, and shouldn't be that way. Rotten fish that makes you gag should totally get tossed. It's sad when it's not properly cared for and used in time. This wasn't that at all.But even for smoked fish I'm just going to buy from the fish counter from now on. This was off to the side with the cocktail sauces and jars of oysters and the shrimp platters and smoked salmon in a separate grab-and-go seafood case. That's the issue right there, that it's not on ice. It's just in an open fridge display basically. Come to think of it they shouldn't even keep raw fish like that over there. I'm going to scold them for it next time. But it's the same price as what they have in the back so there's no reason not to ask for a few pounds off the ice except if you're in a hurry.I've learned my lesson here.
>>21845984>Alcohol removes fishy stink like magic>~The Wandering Hobo’s Cookbookjk <3
>>21844367>Why are there so many assholes on this board recently?A lot of it is one guy that has some serious behavioural issues and needs to pull the plug on his internet connection.
Bumping with my hot sauce collection. The smoking will commence within 12 hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEvP1a-6Bg
>>21845103>ebonics
>>21845991>It's not expired>And if it is it's not that bad>And if it is it's not my fault>And if it is I had no choice because muh wasteAnd the classic that no cookalong thread is ever complete without>>21844356>b-but the rest of the board is shit!You can cope about posting expired fish till the cows come home but I'd say it'd be easier just to not prepare expired fish.
is there a dedicated poster going to every single thread with people posting their own cooking just to shit it up? itd be easier to believe it was multiple people if whoever writing it wasn't so retarded. every single thread where someone has posted food its been >looks like shit>youre poor>you live in a 3rd world country >you cant cook>it doesnt look good >you dont know what youre doing/talking about>you should stop posting >you should stop cooking if it were more constructive it would be a different matter but someone is specifically shitting up every thread in which someone posts their own food, go to any thread that has it and im sure you'll see these posts
>>21845991>I know you're trolling, but it would be wrong to waste food.If it's not likely to be safe to eat anymore then it stops being food for you. It can still be food for your compost in your garden. If it stinks then it's dubious on being safe to eat yourself. Hope it doesn't kill you but understand that you're being a retard eating it.
>>21846908This website is filled with contrarian assholes, always has been, and always will be. How it manifests itself depends on the board, with the only reliable trend being that the faster the board, the shittier the quality.
>>21846908It's literally OP of this thread doing most of that
>>21844310Unfathomably based
>>21844310Most old people are retarded too, young people are just going to also be more foreign in their tastes to old people the way old people are to young people.
>>21845822Why the fuck did you cut the salmon like this it's fucking bizarre. >>21844131>fillets and then score them so there's more surface area and the brine penetrates faster as does the smokeI'm so utterly confused as to why you did this. Are you going to serve this to other people?
>>21846908It's the BMW keys guy. He doesn't like OP. He's late to the party but he always does this. Skill envy.
>>21847189I'm skeptical of this simply because he's the type of fag to post a 5-year-old picture identifying himself just to satisfy his masochistic need for people to recognize and shit on him. He types in nigger-speak to identify himself even when he's not posting his foggy pics. He would post to bring more attention to himself, not less. He's probably been awoken from his drug-addled slumber just by the mention of him and he'll post his diarrhea in this thread soon enough.
>>21847189>nooo everyone is me!!!>skill envyKek exactly why OP constantly cries wheever I post anything
>>21847198You just can't cook like me
>>21847198He did though. He posted his "salmone din dins with professionale asparaguse" in one of the other threads. He's usually here licketty-split, but he was definitely gone for a chunk of hours that made me hopeful maybe he got a life, or could make it without announcing himself. It's some kind of compulsion apparently. Whatever it is, he's devoted to his troll game. >>21847205lol, just had to wait a minute and here he is..
>>21847205>>21847208Come back to the board when you have OC.And then do it in your own thread. This is beyond sad what you're doing.
>>21847211>>21847209I thought this was a cookinge threade
>>21847209Alright I stand corrected lmao, but I knew that sad loser would be here to try to ruin another thread before long. Time for him to spend 3 days straight posting his awful food and baiting for replies. Just report for avatarfagging and move on at this point, he comes here for the beatings.
>>21847223How am i "avatarfagging," to use the parlance of our times? I thought this was a cookinge threade
>>21847229Your food always looks dogshit. I'm serious. Not that the retard OP is any better. I can't believe he larps as a caterer. Incredible. But also, you're a cunt.
It's time.
My chip pan. Starkist perhaps.
>>21847229your greasy camera is for all intensive purposeses a signature. also your shitty car keys in every picture mark you as a homosexual.
>>21847309thanks for the (You) :)
>all my sides are done>but the whole chicken spinning in my rotisserie is at 145°Kill me.
Time to refill. I really should buy a proper pan replacement. Maybe even a new smoker.
Looking great, tastes great, rotating and putting back in for a few more hours.
Smells great in the cold winter air.
Cookede some rice for steakes
>>21847737What the fuck did you do? The color on that is horrendous, it should be a bright red. Either you cooked it at too high of a heat, or that fish is rotten beyond belief.
/ck/frens help me :3i just started cooking, i'm planning on eating more rice but i don't know what to put in it to give it more taste, any suggestions?
>>21847779Butta
>>21847764It's the flash. It looks fine here>>21847462I'll post it indoors when it's done.
You just can'te steake like me, soneDon'te evene trye
>>21847796I just don't get why you won't replace your camera lens. You can't afford a $30 digital camera? Or a used phone or tablet for $20? There's simply no excuse for you to not be able to post clear images in 2026, dude. Let's set a goal of you posting focused pics by February 1st, shall we?Good. See you then.
>>21847800I've no clue what you're onaboutm8
>>21847800He does not post with the intention of communicating clear pictures of quality food. He goes for the opposite of that because shitty pictures of shitty food gets him more replies from you, and it worked because you replied to him.
>>21847808He's seen his last reply in a while outta me. I'm embarrassed for him. He just soldiers on as if he's winning some imaginary competition, blind to what a fool he's making of himself. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
>>21847810>>21847808Yeah yeah, listen here, posersAlways be meltin'e the fateAlways be meltin'e the fate
Wash the dishes.
The salmon is done.
Tastes great. Very rich.
Completely different texture when it cools down of course. This is still warm and soft. Thanks for watching.
>>21846324I was gonna shit on you for having a hot sauce collection but none of it is that "ASSBLASTER BITCHIN' HOT SAUCE" or "NOT YOUR DADDY'S HOT SAUCE!" shit so I'll let it slide.
>>21848115Yeah, it's not really a "collection" like someone might collect watches or something. If anything's unopened it's because I haven't gotten to it yet. That "assblaster", "dildozer" kind of sauce is retarded, I agree.
>>21847978Looks like a good smoke job, did the heavy fish scent go away?
>>21849308Yeah, it did when I rinsed it. Everyone got the wrong idea like I was dealing with rotten fish. And after 24 hours in a salty marinade I couldn't tell it from something fresh caught. It turned out great. I did learn not to get fish from that little section again, though in the past I had and there wasn't any odor issue. I'd like to think if I'd have bought it for making sushi or something that I'd have returned it, but again, I know they'd just throw it out, so I probably still would have smoked it and gotten some use out of it. I hate how much food is wasted when there are hungry people out there.
would put it on a bagel
Looks gay
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