Summit charcoal grill - taters and hot smoked salmon

[Bbqmiller]

After moving about 1300 lbs of top soil and mulch to get our raised bed gardens ready for this season, I was thrilled to fire the ole girl up. I planned to cook a high heat direct dear flank steak, but miscommunication with the significant other had med heat indirect fresh Alaska salmon on the menu. (If it isn't raining that bad tomorrow I will sear the flank steak I bought )

Beautiful evening to cook up some grub


Setup for indirect medium cook - used leftover coals and added a few extra.



Lighting it up



After a few minutes when there was a visible but small red lit area of fuel, I lowered the lid and flipped open up the rapid fire vent. Heat up is quick - no need for a chimney starter.


Just an idea of how much fuel I lit - note the use of an old time charcoal rail. It fits the super thick coal grate on this thing.



12 in lodge CI skillet fits just fine


Warning up the skillet


Small taters (halved)faced down in olive oil, salt, pepper, and rosemary. Roasted at 400 for about 40 minutes.


Fresh Alaskan salmon sprinkled with pearl street rub from savory spice - a nice maple sugar rub.


Where I like to hot smoke salmon - 350. Grill is very responsive to vent settings. Also. Temp rebounds quicker than a standard kettle after opening.


Salmon was hot smoked with alder - not quite done


Salmon done







I still need to get some more cooks on this thing, but it isn't disappointing up to this point.

One thing to note - I used too much coal for this cook. This thing needs much less fuel versus a standard kettle.




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[MrHoss]

The foods got me drooling....the Kettle just gave me wood.

[Travis]

Looks great man. I really like the color on the inside of the lid. Weird, I know. Just looks neat. I like how you did you baby yellows. I'm going to give that a go.


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[Idahawk]

The salmon looks amazing !

The closet SCG to me is 120 miles away , guess I'll have to take across trip just to see one


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[jaynik]

Congrats on a good cook and a good cooker!

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[Grizz]

Mighty fine!  How much olive oil did you use?  just enough to coat the bottom of the pan? 

[SixZeroFour]

The grill and food both look excellent! - nice job

[WNC]

Great cook up, love these summit cooks!