Smoked salmon

[JLinza]

I haven't done one of these for awhile, but my father in law just had a big surgery so I wanted to cook for him when he got back home. My wife asked if I'd smoke a salmon for him.

Did a dry brine with
1 tbl Onion powder
Garlic powder
Black pepper
Lemon pepper
Celery seed
Smoked paprika
1/4 cup salt
1 1/4 ish cup brown sugar

Coverd with plastic wrap and in the fridge for a couple hours. Once out of the fridge rinse off brine completely and back to the fridge for another hour or so. I hit lightly with some dill, lemon pepper, black pepper & chili powder. Very light on all. I did this one at 225 took a couple hours to hit 145. I usually pull it a bit before 145 but under the circumstances I figured I'd follow USDA.

We split it with my in laws, knowing they wouldn't eat the whole filet. And wouldn't ya know I cut it and my wife left to take it to them before a got a picture of the whole thing. So there is our half lol. I brushed it with a Chipotle honey bourbon glaze. I'm no expert with Salmon but it turned out pretty darn good.
Thanks for lookin.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Looks delicious J. I noticed there is no salt in your rub? No issue to to me, but I like a little salt, sugar and acid like lime or Lemon . In the end your salmon looks delicious, I’d get right after that for sure.

 

[gmc2003]

That sure is one pretty looking salmon JL. Nice job on that.

Point for sure
Chris

 

[DougE]

Looks great! I'd be all over it.

 

[JLinza]

Looks delicious J. I noticed there is no salt in your rub? No issue to to me, but I like a little salt, sugar and acid like lime or Lemon . In the end your salmon looks delicious, I’d get right after that for sure.

Thanks. And there is about a 1/4 cup salt in that mix. Thanks for catching that. I edited and put that in. This is a recipe I found and stuck with, but always wanting to try new things for sure

 

[JLinza]

That sure is one pretty looking salmon JL. Nice job on that.

Point for sure
Chris

Thanks, turned out pretty darn good

 

[JLinza]

Looks great! I'd be all over it.

Thanks Doug

 

[SmokinEdge]

Thanks. And there is about a 1/4 cup salt in that mix. Thanks for catching that. I edited and put that in. This is a recipe I found and stuck with, but always wanting to try new things for sure

Thanks. That makes much more sense.

 

[DougE]

No issue to to me, but I like a little salt, sugar and acid like lime or Lemon .

Works for most people but there are weirdos like me out there who despise citrus.

 

[SmokinEdge]

That’s interesting. To me at least.

 

[Schwarzwald Metzger]

I haven't done one of these for awhile, but my father in law just had a big surgery so I wanted to cook for him when he got back home. My wife asked if I'd smoke a salmon for him.
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Did a dry brine with
1 tbl Onion powder
Garlic powder
Black pepper
Lemon pepper
Celery seed
Smoked paprika
1/4 cup salt
1 1/4 ish cup brown sugar
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Coverd with plastic wrap and in the fridge for a couple hours. Once out of the fridge rinse off brine completely and back to the fridge for another hour or so. I hit lightly with some dill, lemon pepper, black pepper & chili powder. Very light on all. I did this one at 225 took a couple hours to hit 145. I usually pull it a bit before 145 but under the circumstances I figured I'd follow USDA.
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We split it with my in laws, knowing they wouldn't eat the whole filet. And wouldn't ya know I cut it and my wife left to take it to them before a got a picture of the whole thing. So there is our half lol. I brushed it with a Chipotle honey bourbon glaze. I'm no expert with Salmon but it turned out pretty darn good.
Thanks for lookin.

That is absolutely beautiful. Smoked salmon is completely underrated!

 

[Buckeyedude]

Beautiful! Great job! I bet it was tasty!
Maybe I missed it, what kind of wood did you use ?

 

[JLeonard]

Man i'd almost have surgery for a big piece of that. Looks good and you did the FIL right.

Jim

 

[Redicans]

That came out Great. I would love some of that!!