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[rabbit]

Thanks to Tyler and Johnny French I now have some smoked redfish I tried Johnny Frenchs recipe and they look delicious. The ones on the right were on top and the ones on the left were on the bottom right over the water pan. The top ones are drier than the ones that were on the bottom. Has anybody tried smoking them without using a brim?



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[Bluffer]

How long at what temp? slow longer the better.
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[tyler]

[Guest]

They are delicious Thanks very much. When you get to your recipe how about sending it to me. I already trying to figure out how to modify this smoker so I can get two or three more racks in it.

[rabbit]

that was me
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[Guest]

Rabbit, you stumped me with the reference to smoking w/o a "brim." As to extra racks, the older Brinkman models (the one you show is the newer sort) came with a removable middle stack section, making it far simpler to start the charcoal and put in the water pan, and, if you were only cooking one rack-full, quicker smoking than the newer models. When my friend finally had the bottom of his old model rust to the point it couldn't be repaired, he gave me the removable section, so theoretically I could now add this to my stack and do 3 grills at once. I expect you could stack still more if you had them, but eventually there'd be less heat to go around and thus an extended smoking period, as well as bigger differences between the cooking rates of the highest and lowest racks.

My advice is to get more insulation around your smoker if you're going for more racks. The ultimate conversion I hear is to make an old refrigerator into a smoker, placing the fire box outside and piping the smoke into it at the bottom. There's supposed to be a way to rig a thermostat and electric heating element to go with this conversion, too, but I don't know the details. You can always break down and buy a rig that costs $$$.

Many Alaskans make their smokers out of wood and wind up with what look like small outhouses. Inside, they have row upon row of racks, each of which slides in and out of slots a few inches apart. I wonder if you couldn't Google up a design for such. Try one of the Chambers of Commerce up there, or send a query to Alaska Magazine for the design. Those are great sources for recipes for brining and smoking, too. Ever hear of squaw candy?

[rabbit]

That smoker come in 4 pieces. Two pieces for the charcol and aircontrol and a barrel and a top, 2 racks and a waterpan. I figure that I could drill a few holes and put in some pegs and be able to add two racks inbetween the two that come with the smoker.

I had a neighbor in minnesota that used to smoke fish every winter and he used the outhouse type smoker with the fire in the ground outside of the smoke house. He used to gill net carp and whitefish and smoke them but I dont think they used any brim. I think all he did was gill and gut them and put a toothpick in the rib cage to hold it open and then hang them in his smoke house.
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[am3]

my dad used to say that he knew a guy who would smoke things inside of a refrigerator, but instead of a smoke box and funneleing it into the refrigerator he would place a small electric burner in the bottom of the refrigerator. he would then soak a piece of green wood (your choice what kind), but he would use green mesquite soaked in water. he would then place the round cut of mesquite on the electric burner and thus create a lot of smoke. thats all i can remember about the smoker. never saw it, my dad just told me about it. don't know if it had a smoke stack or anything like that but me and my dad made -one from andle iron a sheet metal siding. we just made a box (looks like an outhouse) has a propane burner and a compartment on the bottom with a hole about 4 in to let the smoke into the top compartment where you can hang hams sausage half carcass of hogs or anyth0ing else you want to smoke.

[rabbit]

Rabbit, you stumped me with the reference to smoking w/o a "brim."

Sorry about that johnny, I meant to say brine.
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