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Trying to add cold smoke to my salmon smoker, worried about tar
Aha, the A-maze-N maze pellet smoker is available on ebay, ordered: https://www.ebay.com/itm/353539189468 Sold out everywhere else I could find it. Hopefully it's the real thing. And if I'm smoking around 130 to 140 degrees, is there any reason to still use the mailbox mod (or similar) once I... -
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Trying to add cold smoke to my salmon smoker, worried about tar
My brine is between 6 to 1 and 8 to 1 brown sugar to salt. Sometimes I add a bit of water to the brine before putting it on the fish and stir it up to dissolve the brine, on the theory that the liquid will reach more of the fish than the powder. But I keep getting better results from the dry... -
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Trying to add cold smoke to my salmon smoker, worried about tar
I just put a batch in the smoker, things are looking good, to my eye at least: I see people talk about having "nice blue smoke", any other descriptions of what that smoke looks like? With my old smoke source I had to just take whatever smoke I could get (ha) but now I'm interested in dialing... -
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Trying to add cold smoke to my salmon smoker, worried about tar
And @cmayna, is that a raised exhaust pipe on your MES? Does that help a lot with the venturi? -
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Trying to add cold smoke to my salmon smoker, worried about tar
Thanks so much for all the tips! Great to be able to talk to people working on the same issues. Here's my updated smoker: Using an old BBQ instead of a mailbox. This seems like such an obvious choice for this, I'm wondering what advantage a mailbox has? Something tells me I'm missing... -
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Trying to add cold smoke to my salmon smoker, worried about tar
Yup, off Tomales Point. Been a great year for big salmon. That one is our best so far, was 35 pounds. As far as smoking temps, I like to keep it around 140 degrees fareignheight, which I do using an electric heating element connected to one of these: Works really well for that purpose. I... -
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Trying to add cold smoke to my salmon smoker, worried about tar
I'm trying to make a cold smoke generator for my salmon smoker and getting a ton of tar in the combustion chamber (an old fondue pot), and I'm worried that it's going to affect the taste of the fish. Here's my smoker: It's an old Masterbuilt with the heating element removed since it wouldn't...
