Best Smoked Salmon (LOX) From Spyguy

[smokendevo]

This is taken from the susanminor.org/forums site. I have made this many times and have never been disappointed. In fact I could make this and sell it to many who have tried it but I like to tease them with small taste treats every once in a while

Recipe can be found here: http://www.susanminor.org/forums/showthread.php?103-The-Best-Smoked-LOX-Style-Salmon

Step One - Dry Brine Ingredients:
Kosher or canning salt
Dark brown sugar


Second layer


All covered up for 8 hours


After 8 hours a lot of liquid


Step 2 - Wet Brine Ingredients:
3.5 gal. Water
6 cups Kosher or Coarse (non-iodine) Salt
6 cups Brown Sugar
1-2 cups Real Maple syrup
1/4 cup Whole black peppercorns
2 Cloves garlic
Chopped fresh dill, to taste
NOTE: Depending on how much fish you have you can downsize this.
Now into the liquid brine for another 8 hours


Notice the raw egg floats, salt content is just right 


Will rinse and cold smoke tomorrow with updated pictures.

[ACW3]

Watching this one closely.  I do a dry brine, but no wet brine before I smoke the salmon or steelhead trout.  I love good smoked lox.  I also love gravlax.  All I need is a bagel or two, some schmear, capers, diced onion and a nice cup of coffee.  Damn, I'm making myself hungry!!

Art

[sliding_billy]

Had to read it again.  I was going to ask what the egg was for.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Watching this one too.

[CDN Smoker]

 , great post so far Devo. Good Luck

[RAD]

this look like it is going to be good

[muebe]

I just do a dry surface brine on salt on mine. Would this be more of a Gravalox than traditional Lox due to the brown sugar and dill?

Watching for the results...

[smokendevo]

I just do a dry surface brine on salt on mine. Would this be more of a Gravalox than traditional Lox due to the brown sugar and dill?

Watching for the results...

Mike I'm not sure. There are so many recipes and I guess it depends on which side of the ocean your on.

I have made this a couple of times and have been very pleased with it. I also have done just the dry brine for salt fish but never smoked it.

Here is quote from the recipe site:
bsolomon: “I have made this recipe twice and it is fabulous. It is complex only because of the timing for the two curing steps. It is also designed for the Bradley, so you get all of the particular tips and tricks without having to experiment yourself.”

“I did another batch of lox using spyguy's recipe, and again it was outstanding. This time I did 1 hour 20 minutes of alder and 40 minutes of cherry, and I liked the results even better than before. By the way, the lox also freeze and defrost quite well for those who want to make a bigger batch next time.”

[smokendevo]

Up early this morning because the furnace was coming on  (-2C outside)
Got the fish out of the wet brine


Now they will air dry for two to three hours. This will give them a good a hard pellicle. Fish will have a tough, shiny coat and will be slightly tacky to the touch.

Sprinkled with baby dill drying


Going to give these about 3 hours of smoke later this morning.

[ACW3]

Looking real good!!

Art

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Looking good so far, cannot to see them come out of the smoker. 

[smokendevo]

Perfect morning for cold smoking. Temp is around 32-34 F this morning. Going for 3 hours of a special blend pellets. Hickory, cherry and maple in the 12" Tube Smoker filled about half way.

[N. Ontario Smoker]

Smokendevo...............The egg is supposed to be in the shell.


IMPORTANT: check salinity (salt concentration) - a fresh raw egg (in the shell) will float in the mixture.

[smokendevo]

Smokendevo...............The egg is supposed to be in the shell.


IMPORTANT: check salinity (salt concentration) - a fresh raw egg (in the shell) will float in the mixture.

And maybe you should get better glasses my friend because thats a brown egg in the shell  

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Smokendevo...............The egg is supposed to be in the shell.


IMPORTANT: check salinity (salt concentration) - a fresh raw egg (in the shell) will float in the mixture.

And maybe you should get better glasses my friend because thats a brown egg in the shell