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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: Blacklab on June 01, 2023, 05:53:35 PM

Title: Merwin Kokes
Post by: Blacklab on June 01, 2023, 05:53:35 PM: Smokin Kokes in the new Brunswick smoker. So far so good. 6hrs @ 150* cooling down now. Also, I bought a bag of smelt 🤫🤫🤫 tried to see if it would taste like it did growing up. That would be a negative. They might be smelt, but they’re not. The candle lighters that we got have here in the Pacific Northwest.
Title: Re: Merwin Kokes
Post by: Blacklab on June 01, 2023, 05:54:09 PM: Smelt
Title: Re: Merwin Kokes
Post by: 3nails on June 01, 2023, 08:02:12 PM: Those kokanee look great. Best eating fish on the planet.
Title: Re: Merwin Kokes
Post by: pickardjw on June 01, 2023, 08:02:47 PM: How do you deal with the pin bones in the kokes?
Title: Re: Merwin Kokes
Post by: Blacklab on June 02, 2023, 07:32:46 AM: :tup: Thanks

I really don’t worry about the pin bones. As long as I remove most or all rib bones, I’m good. :twocents:
Title: Re: Merwin Kokes
Post by: Alchase on June 02, 2023, 07:53:38 AM: Those Kokes look great!
I have not had smelt since I was about 10 years old! Our family use to got to Ocean Shores, and the Pacific Beaches to dip nets. There were so many that while my Dad used the dip net, us kids would wade out and flip them up on the beach with our hands. You could feel them running into your legs.
Fried up smelt is like eating a crispy fish potato chip :chuckle:
Title: Re: Merwin Kokes
Post by: Blacklab on June 03, 2023, 11:33:21 AM: Quote from: Alchase on June 02, 2023, 07:53:38 AM
Those Kokes look great!
I have not had smelt since I was about 10 years old! Our family use to got to Ocean Shores, and the Pacific Beaches to dip nets. There were so many that while my Dad used the dip net, us kids would wade out and flip them up on the beach with our hands. You could feel them running into your legs.
Fried up smelt is like eating a crispy fish potato chip :chuckle:

That’s a awesome memory.

For me going on the cow or sandy 1-2 dips equaled 10lbs. My grandfather would use the little chief and smoked them up. I remember yelling grandma, look she’d turned around and I’d be biting their heads off. She’d say oh Michael that’s nasty😂😂😂👍