Cure for Home Smoking

Does anyone have a good cure for hot smoking at home ?

I've been using a mix of:
1 litre boiling water
70g sea salt
60g soft light brown sugar
3 crushed garlic cloves
10 peppercorns
2 tsp smoked paprika
6 springs thyme
2 bay leaves

I use this for smoking mackerel fillets and the results are very good, just looking for some variety.

Any recipes would be great

is that not steaming????

No, that's a brine mix (Cure). You mix the ingredients, soak your fillets for an hour or so then air dry the fish. The salt helps form a slight crust which locks in moisture and stops the fishing drying out while it's in your smoker. Just wondered if anyone had a mix that was good with different herbs/spices.

Keep meaning to try smoking some fish. I know you can take your own fish to the Bridport smokery. Think they do hot and cold smoking.

Thats quite a complicated mix you've got there for brining. Bet the fish tastes pretty good. Could always try different themes. Chinese spices comes to mind.

this works pretty well for home smoking:

one packet of Rizla papers
50g hand rolling tobacco
one lighter



And the cure.......................

loose the lighter

Good shout

Hi Mate

i used to have a pretty big cold smoker and this book helped, lots of ideas and suggestions just about all you need inc cures, got the idea for smoked prawns ssssssooooooooooo goooooood!



Home Smoking and Curing













Keith Erlandson

I have checked and you can still get it pretty cheap on amazon. I had a copy but the ex has ditched it otherwise you would be welcome to it.
If you do give it a go let me know how you get on.

Cheers

Carl,

Thanks for the link, looks good. I'll try and grab a copy soon. Never heard of smoked prawns before, sounds like a fantastic idea !

Many Thanks

Carl,

Got the book last night from iTunes £7 looks just the job, I'll post as soon as I've read the relevant stuff and smoked a dozen mackerel

Thanks again

No worries mate, enjoy, smoked crab is pretty tasty too!