- Feb 11, 2017
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Had a bit of a disappointing accident yesterday when trying to smoke some fish (Mackerel) for the first time yesterday.
I bought 4 x 8-10 inch whole mackerel about 300-400g each in weight and attached a hook through the eyeballs either side to hang them from the bar in the lid of my ProQ.
Unfortunately went to check on them after 45 minutes and found them floating in the water pan (my fault for not replacing the grill plate over the water pan after cooking off some ribs over the hot coals beforehand).
I obviously didn't see what happened, but assuming as the fish cooked, the meat became soft (even the head part) where the hooks went through and then the hooks just tore/slipped through the meat, with the weight of the fish?. The fish were very secure on the hooks and could be lifted quite easily by them when in the raw state, so never gave it a second thought that something like this may happen.
Is there a better way of securing fish to the these hooks so this doesn't happen in the future or am I going to have to lay them flat over the grill plates to cook them off?
I bought 4 x 8-10 inch whole mackerel about 300-400g each in weight and attached a hook through the eyeballs either side to hang them from the bar in the lid of my ProQ.
Unfortunately went to check on them after 45 minutes and found them floating in the water pan (my fault for not replacing the grill plate over the water pan after cooking off some ribs over the hot coals beforehand).
I obviously didn't see what happened, but assuming as the fish cooked, the meat became soft (even the head part) where the hooks went through and then the hooks just tore/slipped through the meat, with the weight of the fish?. The fish were very secure on the hooks and could be lifted quite easily by them when in the raw state, so never gave it a second thought that something like this may happen.
Is there a better way of securing fish to the these hooks so this doesn't happen in the future or am I going to have to lay them flat over the grill plates to cook them off?
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