Anyone smoked salmon at home?

[Raera]

I paid £2 for 60g smoked salon today, so expensive these days. The trimmings I used to buy from Morrisons or Asda don't appear on the shelves anymore.
Does anyone have experience of DIY smoking without having to have specialist equipment please?
I'd love to have a go for Christmas but don't want to be ill!
Thank you

Smoked salmon is cold-smoked, so you do need specialist equipment.

However, you can just salt-cure salmon in the fridge, which is also very nice. If you add dill you get gravadlax which has a similar texture to smoked salmon and can be used the same way.

Not smoked, but salt cured as PP described and it was DIVINE! Wish I remember which recipe I used. It was like gravadlax & i Made a sauce to go alongside. Was a few years ago.

My friend has a smoker thing but I’m not all that keen on the flavour... it’s too intense.

Do you have an Aldi near you? They have their Christmas smoked salmon in for £4.99 for 300g.

We used to salt cure too and tastes just like smoked salmon from shops (or better!) use equal quantities of sugar and salt and some dill And leave in fridge for a day mmmm

You can 'hot' smoke salmon quite easily yourself, all you need is a barbeque with lid (eg. a Weber) and some sawdust. Doesn't take long and tastes devine seasoned with either pepper or garlic before smoking. Try mixing hot smoked salmon with mayo, yoghurt and chives, it's a very tasty salad .

But I guess you are after cold smoked, it needs special equipment and is smoked for approx. Four days.

Beware of kitchen hygiene if you attempt gravad salmon, the mixture of fresh meat and (dirt) fresh dild can make it a less fun experience.

If you want Scandinavian recipes for salmon look up gravad laks or røget laks.

Thanks for all the ideas.
Looks as if a salt cure is the way to go, so I'll try that.
Our BBQ is a gas one, so I don't think we can hot smoke on that sadly.
I'll be going to Aldi in case it all goes wrong!
Thanks again, other ideas welcome

1. 99 a kilo for whole salmon in morrison this week. I have a smoker but made gravadlax instead.

To cold smoke, you need to brine it then use oak dust or chippings that just smoulder if close.. If you can burn in a separate place it's great. I used to have a homemade set up which was better than my proper cabinet - basically a camping stove under a sealed metal box with a pipe leading into a covered barbecue. This removed the heat. It does require a bit of skill to fabricate one but it's possible with a bit of thought and effort. Luckily I had a friend who could weld! Sadly the bbq rusted away over time.