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    What changes to make for less than fresh fish?

    From time to time I keep fish in the fridge too long, and sometimes the freezer. Last year's salmon vacuum bagged for example. My test to see if it's totally bad is first to feed some to my neighbor's cats, and if they eat it and it doesn't smell bad, sometimes I smoke. But what should I be...
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    Thoughts on vacuum sealing smoked salmon?

    I just finished smoking a batch of salmon and am about to bag it up. I usually vacuum seal it, and try to press the seal button before the vac sealer puts too much suction on the salmon and starts pulling out the oils. It still often doesn't look that good though. I was thinking about wrapping...
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    Recommendation for a grill mat?

    I usually smoke my salmon with skin on, at least for the first hour or so, but for my last batch I did some without the skins and they dropped between the grill a bit. I'm thinking one of those silicone grill mats would fix it nicely. Does anyone have a recommendation for something?
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    Thoughts on adding more shelves to Masterbuilt? (And where to find the 19.5" x 12.5" shelves?)

    I'll keep an eye on it, but I just had a look at my neighbor's Big Chief, and those shelves have the same spacing (3 inches). Much bigger shelves than the Big Chief though, which could make it harder to distribute the smoke.
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    Thoughts on adding more shelves to Masterbuilt? (And where to find the 19.5" x 12.5" shelves?)

    It's these shelves:
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    Thoughts on adding more shelves to Masterbuilt? (And where to find the 19.5" x 12.5" shelves?)

    Extra shelves installed! I kept it simple and used 3/4" angle (thanks @chopsaw) and stainless screws. Now I just need the salmon to return! Got skunked the last 2 days of fishing, but hopefully we're about to get another burst of fish here in Marin/Sonoma California.
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    Thoughts on adding more shelves to Masterbuilt? (And where to find the 19.5" x 12.5" shelves?)

    Thank you! I ordered the "Hisencn Cooking Grate Replacement Parts for Masterbuilt Electric Smoker 40 Inch, 19.69" x 12.2" Stainless Steel Grids Masterbuilt MB20070115 Smoker grates Replacement, 3 Pack".
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    Thoughts on adding more shelves to Masterbuilt? (And where to find the 19.5" x 12.5" shelves?)

    I have a Masterbuilt Electric Smoker, not sure what model it is exactly. Here's a pic: Any idea what model that is? The shelves are about 12.5" x 19.5". I'd love to put shelves between each existing shelf, so three more shelves. Any thoughts on whether there's any downside to doing that...
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    Thoughts on automating the salmon smoking process

    Good idea about the video camera. Do you usually supply smoke during the whole time, or only part of the "cook" time? And any idea what your typical cook time sequence looks like?
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    Thoughts on automating the salmon smoking process

    And ha I knew the name Auber sounded familiar, I used to have their temp controller on my old espresso maker:
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    Thoughts on automating the salmon smoking process

    Interesting! I didn't know that the Auber is programmable like that. Looking at it's specs I see that it has a lot of features I'm describing. But it doesn't have a super crucial feature for my purposes: the ability to alert me if the smoker extinguishes. Ditto being able to alert me if the...
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    Thoughts on automating the salmon smoking process

    A young man of 51! Still stupid enough to waste tons of time on silly projects like this and may that never change, ha. That's what I use in my MasterBuilt smoker by the way, assuming you're using the stock heating element in your Big Chief. When I first picked up my MasterBuilt after a couple...
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    Thoughts on automating the salmon smoking process

    Thanks massively to everyone who helped me dial in the "thin blue smoke" on my smoker, especially @cmayna and @tallbm. I learned a ton. I cringe when I look at my old pics of crazy white smoke ruining my fish. Now I'm thinking about somewhat automating the smoking process, because I caught a...
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    My quest for thin blue smoke

    Great idea! I'll have to put something like that together. As I type this I'm smoking a small batch, my first with my amaze-n maze pellet smoke generator. Working beautifully. Interestingly tho for a moment my fan got moved off the exhaust hole of my smoker and right away I got thick white...
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    My quest for thin blue smoke

    Interesting and great idea. Does that work as well as the fan? Also interesting! Is it full on sawdust or more like chips? Is it like this or more dusty? And what do you burn your sawdust in?
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