- Oct 12, 2016
- 5
- 10
Hey everyone, I recently caught some beautiful king and coho salmon in Lake Michigan and took them to a local butcher market to have them smoked due to my time constraints, would much rather have smoked them myself. They are the worst smoked fish I have ever tasted. There is absolutely no flavor (it was like eating when I had a bout of Covid and lost my taste and smell lol). No salt flavor, no sweet flavor, no smoke flavor and they are a very light color which don’t even look smoked, they’re also way more moist than I prefer. I would like to salvage them on my smoker. Would it be possible to brine and smoke again or just smoke again to get more smoke flavor? The other option floating in my head is to cut them in strips and smoke them basting with honey/maple sugar to make a poor man’s salmon candy. Anyone have any insight or suggestions or ever tried something like this?! Appreciate any help before I make cat food out of them lol