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Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:06 amby fusion555
Local grocery store was selling true Cod for $5.99/lb today, bought a nice big fillet, at home i portioned it, but first i cut off the thin piece of the belly so my fillet portions would be a consistent thickness.
Decided to Hot smoke the belly, gave it a good dose of S&P cranked up my gas smoker, half filled the AmaZeN pellet smoker with Apple pellets and let it go at 200f for just about 2 hrs.
It was just nicely cooked, had a smoke flavor but it was lacking something, do you guys think a few hrs in salt in ref(Like a salmon cure) would have enhanced the flavor any?
Re: Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Tue Dec 20, 2016 2:04 pmby wheels
I would salt it. Not for as long as for salmon. Maybe an hour or two dry salted or 15 - 30 mins in an 80°Brine. You'll need a bit of trial and error for accurate timings.
HTH
Phil
Re: Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Tue Dec 20, 2016 6:57 pmby fusion555
wheels wrote:I would salt it. Not for as long as for salmon. Maybe an hour or two dry salted or 15 - 30 mins in an 80°Brine. You'll need a bit of trial and error for accurate timings.
HTH
Phil
Thanks for that Phil, was tempted to try but needed the extra guidance
Going to do the dry salting first
Colin
Re: Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:36 pmby Swing Swang
I would lightly salt it too - salt does such amazing things to cod that the French even give it a different name, so that fresh "morue" becomes "cabillaud" when it is dried and salted. Now what I fancy having a go at is turning salt cod into lipeäkala by curing it in birch ash as I have a pile of suitable 'Yule logs' in the woodpile...
Re: Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Wed Dec 21, 2016 12:26 amby wheels
Thanks to Google I know what you're on about! I'm not sure that I want that invite to dinner!
Re: Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:54 amby fusion555
Cured in a light sea salt for 3 hrs in ref, smoked for 2 1/2 hrs @200F using gas smoker with Oak pellets
Much better than the last one, thanks all for the advice
Colin
Re: Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Thu Dec 22, 2016 3:41 pmby wheels
Glad it worked - it looks great.
Phil
Re: Hot smoked Cod
Posted:
Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:14 pmby Swing Swang
If you weren't so far away Colin I'd gatecrash your supper - Philip
Re: Hot smoked Cod
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Sat Dec 24, 2016 9:07 pmby fusion555
Swing Swang wrote:If you weren't so far away Colin I'd gatecrash your supper - Philip
And you would be very welcome Philip
I have 2 sides of Salmon in a brown sugar BP and sea salt cure right now, will hot smoke later today for Xmas day tomorrow. If it tastes as good as the Cod i will be happy.
