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Does anyone have a suggestion for limiting smoke with this thing? I'll add more vents to my build but damn this puts out entirely too much white smoke. Is thin smoke even possible? I did salmon and left the pump off but my alder big chips just smoldered and made a rediculous amount of creosote...
..and TallBM Basking Ridge and all of North Jersey should be a different state than South West Bayside, NJ. All flat, farm land and hicks down here (including me lol)
Thank you Al! All thanks to you and BBally actually. I can't appreciate you enough for your replys to my questions and the encouragement. I will let you know tonight how it tastes. I'm not afraid of botchalism besides I don't have a freezer that goes to -10.
Lol you would hate these for sure than. Very vinegary and dilly. Hot sauce is on the list. I need to dry some Carolina reapers first. Maybe this weekend if I don't fish. And great idea about doing salsa!
Thanks Tex! I'm jealous that you live in Texas and I'm stuck in South NJ ha. Hey I smoked cheese for 3 hours in my homemade shanty 3 times when it was in the mid 80's. Never got above 71 and stayed around 68 for the most part with 2 bags of ice (one above one below).
Followed BBally and SmokingAl's process. 48 hours dry cure with DQ Pink Salt (6.25% sodium nitrate), 36 hours drying in the fridge (cut this to 29 hours do to poor planning time/work wise) and this is after 4 hours smoke (alder wood chips) at 66-71 degrees (internal temp of fish never got above...
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