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Simple Salmon on Tuesday

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Acn
Acn Posts: 4,424
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Did a super simple dinner last night, maple planked salmon, dusted with raging river.  I cooked raised indirect at a low temp, about 320 to slowly cook the fish.  Served with sautéed red cabbage and some sautéed green beans with garlic and preserved lemon.




LBGE

Pikesville, MD

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  • Eggaroo
    Eggaroo Posts: 417
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    Nice!
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  • redharley13
    redharley13 Posts: 10
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    DP recipe for the salmon with the butter and maple syrup is my favorite way in the world to eat it.

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  • Mim-the-beam
    Mim-the-beam Posts: 11
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    Looks like you forgot to sand the edges of your "plank"!   I'll be right over!
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    That's what I love to see after 30 minutes of night-trolling.  A lovely raging salmon cook.  Fine work my friend.  Although I must remark, indirect defeats the purpose of planking, which is for the plank to smoke.
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,791
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    Mighty fine looking grub brother.

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  • Acn
    Acn Posts: 4,424
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    nolaegghead said:
    That's what I love to see after 30 minutes of night-trolling.  A lovely raging salmon cook.  Fine work my friend.  Although I must remark, indirect defeats the purpose of planking, which is for the plank to smoke.
    Thank you all.

    On the direct v. indireect issue I disagree - planking definitely has different notes thank if I cooked with chips in the coals.  Also, why would they make planks for the oven? 

    According to Kenji the purpose of planking is picking up flavor due to the direct contact between wood and the fish.  After looking at that I may need to try the charred method, perhaps with some bourbon flavor in a glaze.

    LBGE

    Pikesville, MD

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  • stompbox
    stompbox Posts: 729
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    Can you reuse planks?
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  • Ladeback69
    Ladeback69 Posts: 4,482
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    stompbox said:
    Can you reuse planks?
    I do and did last night, but I cook my Salmon indirect though.  I want to try a salt block at some point.
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  • Ladeback69
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    @Acn, good looking food.  I did some Salmon last night as you see above in my post.  I used Raging River too, but mine is salt free so I added some,  but I am not really tasting anything from it.  The fish was good, but needed a little more to it.  Squeezed an orange over it and added some honey too, but I think next time I try something different for a marinade. 
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    @Acn - yeah, I read that.  The wood has to be very (smoldering) hot to pick up any direct contact flavor.  Wood is fairly inert which is why it's used for cooking spoons and cutting boards.   When it starts smoldering, it's releasing orders of magnitude more chemicals and flavor. I can see getting some subtle flavor from a softwood like alder or cedar if it's just super hot but not smoldering.  Anyway, it's not a big deal...there's a novelty cooking on a plank that's bigger than the flavor.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    stompbox said:
    Can you reuse planks?
    Absolutely. 
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