Recommend me a fish smoker please

[Adenauer]

I'm taking up Trout fishing and thought it might be nice to smoke some of what I catch.

Does anyone here do similar or have an idea of what I need? Ideally I'd like a piece of kit that I could put on the terrace and smoke Trout in from time to time.

Thank you kindly.

[starnberg]

Adenauer said:

I'm taking up Trout fishing and thought it might be nice to smoke some of what I catch.

Does anyone here do similar or have an idea of what I need? Ideally I'd like a piece of kit that I could put on the terrace and smoke Trout in from time to time.

Thank you kindly.

You can buy everything you need here:

http://www.souschef.co.uk/techniques/smoking.html

ProQ cold smoke generator is excellent, there's a cheap cardboard box cabinet you could start with. I use a home-brewed version of a Weber Smokey Mountain (mine's a Smokey Joe with a large stock pot in the middle) which means you can do both hot and cold smoking.

Weber:

http://www.weber.com/grills/series/smokers

Homebrew:

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/miniwsm.html

[Adenauer]

Brilliant, thanks.

I was looking at this to start off with just to see if I enjoy it, rather than directly spending three million quid on a Weber

http://www.ebay.de/itm/like/Raucherofen-Ofen-Rauch...

Is it just a matter of loading it up with woodchips, lighting it and then waiting for the thing to do it's smokey goodness?

[starnberg]

Pretty much.

Hot smoke - small fire in the bottom, wood chips or chunks on the top. Control the air entering the smoker to keep the temperature at your target and leave for as long as needed to cook. Can do all sorts this way, not just fish.

Cold smoke - normally you'd cure the meat/fish in some way then either have an off-set firebox generating smoke which cools before it reaches the food or use something like the ProQ smoke generator which smoulders 'dust' and generates plenty of smoke without any great heat.

Looks like you could do either in the box you linked to.

Addictive hobby once you've started though...

[Adenauer]

Brilliant, thanks, I'm looking forward to having as go at that.

One more question, does it stink?

[starnberg]

It's a bit, well, smokey Not massively so though.

[Adenauer]

Great, thanks.

Whilst we're on the subject of Fish, does your username have anything to do with the Starnberger See in Germany? Lovely Lake that is.

Just being nosy, not stalking, honest

[pad58]

Thishttp://lifehacker.com/learn-how-to-perfectly-smoke-any-kind-of-meat-with-this-1688306628?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

[starnberg]

Adenauer said:

Great, thanks.

Whilst we're on the subject of Fish, does your username have anything to do with the Starnberger See in Germany? Lovely Lake that is.

Just being nosy, not stalking, honest

In a roundabout way - original reference was Rudi Von Starnberg in the Flashman books