With all the salmon we caught, we froze about 60 fillets. We smoked and canned the rest of the fish, around 95 pints of smoked salmon! The first time I saw a jar of canned salmon, I thought... can that really taste good?? It does not look all that appetizing, but let me tell you... it is!
All the woman that went dip netting got together the following week (after the salmon had brined) and we canned salmon. In all we canned around 340 pints of smoked salmon. That is a big job!!
The fish in the brine.
Loads and loads of pint jars. These jars were in high demand. We went to about 6 different places that were all sold out. Called probably 10 more places... all sold out. Finally we came upon a store that still had wide mouth pint jars!
We had 6 pressure cookers...
and 5 smokers.
After the fish has been smoked and skinned we shred it and put it into the jars.
Brittani and her cute little lady!
Brittani and I were on pressure cooker duty. We had to keep the salmon at 12 pounds of pressure for 100 minutes. You can't let it drop below or let it go above. If it goes above for too long, your pressure cooker will blow up. This is serious stuff here folks!!
I opened the smoker to check on the salmon and got totally smoked out. I could not remember to keep my head to the side when I would open that dang thing.
Miki switching out fish.
Karen switching out fish.
This was a huge job... I can certainly wait a year to do it again! I am so happy I had a hard working crew of great chickas to show me the ropes and teach me how to can salmon. Plus... it's way more fun to do a huge job like this in good company!
4 comments:
K i'm not gonna lie--that looks totally disgusting! But I bet it's really so tasty! I've really craved salmon this pregnancy. :) That's nice you have friends to work with. And what a great item for food storage.
Wow, that's serious stuff. I had a mission companion that is from the Aleutian islands there and pretty much lived on a fishing boat with her 6 older brothers...I guess you can never truly appreciate Alaska until you experience it.
Holy schmokes, you blogged!
Holy schmokes, that is a LOT of salmon!
Holy schmokes, I miss you!
Holy SMOKES! That is AWESOME! Now I know who to go to with questions on how this is all done! It does look like a big job, but how great to do it with friends! Good job!
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