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I haven't been to this forum in a while so please forgive me if this topic has been discussed recently.

I have a Smokette and smoke an awful lot of salmon. As it gets colder I have trouble with black gook (creosote?) dripping down from the vent onto my beautiful fillets. To keep this from happening I put a metal oyster cup on the top rack under the hole and arrange the fish around it.

Does anyone else have this problem and if so, what do you do about it?

Thanks in advance. Julie
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J,

LOVE your brine recipe, good to see you around!

Lots of good details, that's why this forum is fun, everyone contributes.

I'd just make sure, each time, in cold weather you scrub the vent and the area around it. There is probably just an accumulation, but if it's kept relative clean, it should disappear.

Russ
Cold weather can be a real pain when trying to smoke fish. Of course, keeping everything clean is good and condensation is real bad. Here's a couple of other ideas that come to mind. Make sure your fish is as dry as possible short of cooked. As the temp. drops you may have to increase your smoker temperature. It been my experience that as some point you just have to get the smoker out of the cold. Any wind at all can be a problem. A big cardboard box might be an easy fix. A little food for thought if nothing else....Oh by the way, it's another beautiful day at 22 deg. for this southern ak boy. Good luck..
Wheelz-
Actually I have a smoking shed w/a guru caldera among others-love regulating temp. Have had my eye on cookshack for quite awhile. Alaska has an interesting twist due to the temperature extremes. It seems like everyone up here smokes fish and I've seem just about every type of smoker. Cookshack makes some great units that's why I getting a fec300 but not for fish. I'm now more into cold-smoke for fish and that limits it to the summer months. I smoke and can salmon for the winter unless I get some fresh winter kings. There is a huge trade off between fresh and frozen. If someone is having problems with condensation it might not be the smoker at all but where do you start? We get alot of curve balls as far as weather and sometimes the little things make the difference IMHO.

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