"Nonnymus" > wrote in message
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> This is not a Liquid Smoke troll. I've been doing 'q since I got my first
> offset and eventually even graduated to a laid up pit. Now that I'm
> retired, I still have a Bradley smoker, which I use frequently, in
> addition to a gas grill and IR cooker of char-rare food. The other day, I
> was skewering up some shrimp to grill on the gas grill when an idea
> occurred to me. I put it to the test and think I may have found a way
> combine the convenience of liquid smoke with a pretty half-way decent
> flavor. Yes, I know that a single puck in the Bradley would have given me
> a cold smoke for the shrimp, but I wanted to see if I could do it some
> other way.
>
> I got a bottle of liquid Mesquite smoke and fired up the gas grill, as I
> always do. I let it get really hot, as usual, and placed the skewer of
> shrimp in the holder to keep it just above the grates. I do my skewered
> shrimp and scallops inside a closed hood, when grilling. When this
> particular skewer of shrimp had begun to cook, I sprinkled some of the
> liquid smoke onto the grates (not the food) and let it drip to the ceramic
> flame tamer. I immediately shut the hood to hold the vapor inside the
> cooker. I repeated this several times during the cooking of the shrimp.
> No liquid smoke touched the food- just the smoky vapor from the evaporated
> liquid smoke.
>
> When I took the shrimp inside, both Mrs. Nonny and I could detect a light
> smoke flavor, but none of the bitterness or off taste you'd expect with
> liquid smoke.
>
> You might want to give this a try sometime. If it works for you when
> grilling, it saves a bunch of fiddling around and time.
>
> Nonny
>
I've tried to smoke salmon a number of times, always unsuccessfully. With my
equipment it's impossible to get room temperature smoke, and the salmon gets
cooked.

I received the following suggestion from a Norwegian lady at a local fish
market. Make gravlax by curing the salmon simply with sugar and salt and
seasonings you choose. Rub highly diluted liquid smoke.

It works. I wonder if they do that in Norway?

Kent