Smoked Sturgeon

[tg pythons]

I was fortunate enough to get some sturgeon from a coworker to smoke. It was already cleaned and ready for me, I just had to thaw it.

Thawed and cleaned:

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I used two brine recipes found here on SMF

Davy's recipe found on SMF minus the ginger.

2 cups Pineapple Juice
2 cups Teryaki
2 cups brown sugar
1/3 cup salt
1/2 cup wine ( Reisling)
1/4 cup fresh cracked black/white peppercorns
2 heaping tablespoons garlic powder
1 tsp homemade ground red pepper (hot hot hot) - I used homemade cayenne. It hurts your eyes, throat, and nose, and makes you cough and sneeze when you apply it, but it's worth it!

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Sturgeon Candy brine found on SMF. I halfed this recipe.

7 cups of water
1 cup kiko man soy sauce
4 cups brown sugar
1 tbl sp onion pwdr
1 tbl sp garlic pwdr
2 tsp all spice I received a lot of e-mails for this recipe, maybe cause I have kind friends or maybe it's
20 whole cloves
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/3 cup of non iodized salt

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After about a 24 hours, I pulled them from the brine and let them air dry for about an hour. During this time I preheated the MES30 to 190, added a pan of water, and set up my new Maverick.

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I could not find alder chips in my area, so I decided on apple.

I added new chips after about an hour and a half and rotated the two racks.

Q-view

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Total time was about 3.5 hours to 150 IT on the largest fillet.

Davy's brine finished sturgeon:

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Sturgeon Candy finished shot.

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Both turned out excellent. The only bad part is that I have to share it!

Tim

 

[driedstick]

Tim, That looks great very nice on the co-worker giving you some hopefully that is the person you have to share it with

Great post

DS

 

[tg pythons]

I will be bringing it in to work to share, so he will be getting some for sure!

 

[hanathus]

Hi pythons, I was wondering if I could get the amount of ginger in the original terriaki recipe as well? Also how large should I be cutting the blocks into? I have about 40 pounds of sturgeon, and would love to try both recipes on a few pounds of it. It looks great.

 

[cmayna]

I did the Sturgeon candy one last year.  Turned out great.  I cut the meat into finger food chunks.   Same recipe I used on Halibut.

 

[tg pythons]

Hi pythons, I was wondering if I could get the amount of ginger in the original terriaki recipe as well? Also how large should I be cutting the blocks into? I have about 40 pounds of sturgeon, and would love to try both recipes on a few pounds of it. It looks great.

I'm not sure of the ginger. Just search for Davy's recipe; it should be on here somewhere.

As far as the size, they were about 2" thick.

The last time I smoked it, I didn't cut it into chunks and it turned out great!

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