cold smoking salmon

[dimsumgirl]

Does anyone know how to do this? I have a charcoal smoker and an electric smoker but don't know the technique. Can anyone help?

[biggreenmatt]

I smoke on my BGE and I've tried cold smoking salmon. Fail. Can't keep the temp low enough without putting the coals out.

[scubadoo97]

You know the problem. You need to use some type of cold smoke generator, but you can cold smoke on the BGE if you want to. Like I mentioned upthread, ice packs can help keep the fish cold during the cold smoking process.

I've got salmon on in my smoker at this moment. With the fish sitting on the ice packs the ambient temp in the smoker is between 55-60*F and it's already in the 80s here today.

[scubadoo97]

Dimsumgirl, which electric smoker do you have?

This is my rig on my Masterbuilt electric smoker. I also use frozen foam ice packs which I place in zip bags and lay my fish on top of them to keep the ambient temperature as low as I can get it. I tried a tray of ice on the rack beneath the fish but my ambient temps were still too high. I'm using the tin can/soldering iron smoke generator but there are a couple of cold smoke systems like the Pro Q and the A Maze N smoker which you can place at the bottom of any smoker to provide smoke and as long as the smoker itself is not generating heat you are good to go.

We have been having Nova style smoked salmon every morning this week. I make it often

[csparker]

The A-Maze-N smoker is as sounds. I cold smoke salmon, nuts, and cheese with it in my Masterbuilt. No rigging required! I also use it when I want to smoke for longer periods or overnight.
Good luck!

[ferret]

Depends on the electric smoker. I have a Bradley which has separate heating elements for the smokebox and smoke generator. Even then you need to use a ducted adapter to get some distance between the smoke generator and the cold smokebox, otherwise even the limited amount of heat from the smoke generator will heat up the interior of the box.

[sbp]

You would need to rig up ducting from the smoker to another container. The tube would carry the smoke and cool it down. I have a Weber Smokey Mountain, was interested in this too. Can't really be done as an "all in one" setup.