Jonas-Switzerland
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So...
Yeah my second batch of lox came out pretty good. My in-laws loved it. Wife ordered more salmon for lox.
Now this time, I wanna try out Mark Foreman's brine (recipe in the linked thread). The original recipe called for 80g of salt per liter. My previous brine had more salt than sugar, while Marks' recipe is the opposite. I chickened out, and increased the amount of salt to 100g per liter. Need to build up the courage first.
Also, I just kept it to salt and sugar. Like I said before, baby steps
Already like the workflow a lot more. 8-12h brine time is much easier to organize. I could not find my really big pot. So, two big pots were necessary for my 4 salmon sides.
Here would be a picture, but...
You can see how much I hate the camera app on my new phone. (all modern smartphones capture a short video and stitch together an image in post. But this one always takes longer than you'd think. So the image you see being added in the app's animation isn't the one you get.) This is what I got
Back on topic. It looked great. It was less firm than my 20% salinity brine. Its now sitting covered in my fridge. I'll uncover it for 4h before the first smoke session. My youngest had other plans for me this evening. He had a rough day, and needs to sleep on my belly.
Gonna smoke the salmon tomorrow evening.
So long, and good night.
Yeah my second batch of lox came out pretty good. My in-laws loved it. Wife ordered more salmon for lox.
Now this time, I wanna try out Mark Foreman's brine (recipe in the linked thread). The original recipe called for 80g of salt per liter. My previous brine had more salt than sugar, while Marks' recipe is the opposite. I chickened out, and increased the amount of salt to 100g per liter. Need to build up the courage first.
Also, I just kept it to salt and sugar. Like I said before, baby steps
Already like the workflow a lot more. 8-12h brine time is much easier to organize. I could not find my really big pot. So, two big pots were necessary for my 4 salmon sides.
Here would be a picture, but...
You can see how much I hate the camera app on my new phone. (all modern smartphones capture a short video and stitch together an image in post. But this one always takes longer than you'd think. So the image you see being added in the app's animation isn't the one you get.) This is what I got
Back on topic. It looked great. It was less firm than my 20% salinity brine. Its now sitting covered in my fridge. I'll uncover it for 4h before the first smoke session. My youngest had other plans for me this evening. He had a rough day, and needs to sleep on my belly.
Gonna smoke the salmon tomorrow evening.
So long, and good night.