Who makes the best smoked salmon?

[Baz]

The little packages you can buy online. Supposed to be wild caught sockeye ready to eat.

My Mom loves the stuff but is very choosy - she grew up in the PNW and knows what she likes.

She has told me what Harry and David's sells is good:


Does anyone here have a brand/product they can recommend?

Thanks!

[Scott Douglas]

We've just been buying the raw fish from Smart 'n Final. Most of it says 'fresh Atlantic' on it.

edit: That H&D stuff is pricey.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

edit: That H&D stuff is pricey.

I think that's why Mom likes it so much.....

[pwd72s]

Research Umatilla or Quinalt tribes...tribal stores often sell gift packs. Dunno if they ship or not.

[Scott Douglas]

I've gotten pretty good at cooking ours on the grille in my cast iron pan.


Not fancy but tastes pretty good.

[Otter74]

This is a useless answer to an OP from Florida, but I'm still going to say my favorite is from Calumet Fisheries on the south side. It's a tiny building with a tinier smoke shack next to it, next to the 95th St. bridge over the Calumet River on the far-ish southeast side. Nice bike ride from the north side, too.

[RWebb]

I dunno about online since I buy locally (and they smoke here too), but the best species of salmon is called Chinook or King salmon.

There are 2 species in the middle and then what used to be called dog salmon (the Indians didn't usually eat it themselves but threw them to their dogs). It is now being called keta in attempt to sell it.

There is also Atlantic salmon, and steelhead (technically a trout, but it acts and tastes like a salmon).

[Rusty Heap]

I'm born and raised Seattle and can ship awesome small packaged store bought heavenly product.

PM me if interested. Store price is affordable at about $20 a pound.


This stash is just what I have in my fridge at the moment for personal consumption!


PM me and flat rate shipping USPS can be your friend. Yes it's that good.


pictures don't lie. drool.


Glad to help someone out if you send me paypal.


Did I mention PM me?

[Baz]

Thanks everyone so far for your input. Good stuff.

Me personally.......I've just bought salmon filets and cooked them at home.

I don't know why Mom is so in love with the smoked stuff from mail order. The last stuff she got was a Mothers Day present from her daughter-in-law and she gave it to me to give to my dogs because "it's the cheap stuff and doesn't taste very good."

Hence the purpose of the thread.

Maybe I should make some of the salmon for her myself that I usually get locally and see if that suffices.

I gotta also tell my sister-in-law to quit sending her that "cheap stuff that doesn't taste very good."

[Scott Douglas]

And make the dogs suffer?

[Baz]

Originally Posted by scott douglas

and make the "4 legged vacuum cleaner" suffer?

fify.......:d

[rusnak]

Some of the (to me) strangest smoked salmon and coffee that I ever bought was in the Washington south Puget Sound area, near Elma. I grew up on seafood from San Francisco so I just figured local tastes are different, I dunno.

But if your mom likes a particular brand, I would say stick to that.

[Ayles]

Smoked Salmon – Larry’s Smokehouse

[quicksix]

Chucks Seafood in Charleston, Oregon.

[craigster59]

I'd send you some Baz but it's just as easy to do it yourself.

Buy some filets, cut into strips and brine for a day. Rinse and smoke in a Big (or Little) Chief smoker for 8 hours and brush with apricot jam and smoke for another hour.

She'll like it.

[cabmandone]

My aunt Connie.

[javadog]

See if you can find someone local to you that smokes it. I have a local source, a restaurant that also has a market next-door, to sell what it makes. Their smoked salmon absolutely kills anything you’re going to find in a store in a package. He does both cold smoked and hot smoked salmon and the salmon he uses is good stuff, not the farm raised crap that proliferates most of the market.

[billybek]

There used to be a little fish store in Point Roberts that had the most awesome indian candy. Last time i was out it was gone though.
i would bring home a wack of the stuff and it never lasted more than a day or two.

[Ziggythecat]

She might be talking about this.
Smoked Salmon, but a cold smoked process.

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by Otter74

This is a useless answer to an OP from Florida, but I'm still going to say my favorite is from Calumet Fisheries on the south side. It's a tiny building with a tinier smoke shack next to it, next to the 95th St. bridge over the Calumet River on the far-ish southeast side. Nice bike ride from the north side, too.

Agree! Calumet Fisheries on the southeast side, it's Hagens on the north side.

I smoke my own but it is just not the same.