amazen smoked salmon question

poster

ive been playing around using the amazen smoker the last couple days and results have been great. I want to try some salmon tomorrow but have a quick question. Its only about 40-45 degrees here and with the amazen smoker in my egg, I doubt it will get to 80. So should I cold smoke the salmon a few hours then light the egg and bring the fish temp up after?  

vb4677

I'd be a little hesitant with such cool, danger-zone temps..

Here's what I did and got great results - takes a bit to brine, but maybe fornext time!

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1198868/sub-200f-salmon-smoke#latest

Retired RailRoader

I made this recently and it was Fantastic!! 

http://playingwithfireandsmoke.blogspot.com/2006/08/thirdeyes-nova-lox.html 

The only complaint I got was I didn't make a bigger piece.

Focker

Retired RailRoader said:

I made this recently and it was Fantastic!! 

http://playingwithfireandsmoke.blogspot.com/2006/08/thirdeyes-nova-lox.html 

The only complaint I got was I didn't make a bigger piece.

Good Lord, I would crush that!

poster

I ended up putting the fillets in the gas grill with the amazen smoker for an hour, then finished off in the egg and they turned out great. I didn't have any wood chunks left so the pellet smoker helped add a lot of smoke flavour. I figured If I can leave them on the counter for an hour to get the pellicle I could leave them in a 50 degree bbq ( I also brined before)??

On another note, one thing I noticed with the amazen smoker (new to me) is that if I lit and left it in the egg or gas grill while off, it would smoke lots, and continue to burn (11 hours on my test run) However if I lit the egg or turned the gas grill on which I tried to do with some burgers, the pellets almost immediately went out completely. Is this normal?  I was hoping to use it with some lower temp gas grill cooks to impart some smoke when needed. I did have it on a fire brick on the low side, and on the plate setter in the egg. Does the other fuel burning around it starve it of oxygen? 

SaintJohnsEgger

@Retired RailRoader

That looked awesome. Loved the look of that bun tomato onion thing.

Spaightlabs

SaintJohnsEgger said:

@Retired RailRoader

That looked awesome. Loved the look of that bun tomato onion thing.

I think that bun thing might be what they call an everything bagel?