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Easy Smoked Salmon

I'm a huge fan of lots of different foods.  One of my favorites is smoked Salmon.  I have an electric smoker (aka a lazy guy smoker) and I recently perfected smoked salmon.  Here are the basic steps. For salmon, you need to brine it for the smoking technique to work properly.  Salmon can take a dry brine, meaning that you just apply to brine with no added liquid. Note: these steps are what I used on 1 big filet of salmon. If you have more/less than that you can adjust your measurements.  Some people prefer  one giant smoked filet, but I prefer smaller cuts.   Salmon dry brine ingredients: 2 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup kosher salt 1 tablespoon cracked pepper Steps  Get the salmon - doesn't have to be the most expensive salmon.  I usually wait for the sale on Atlantic salmon, or something similar.  Put the salmon in the dry brine overnight (see brine recipe above).  This will pull out some liquid and apparently change the protein molecule.  Take the salmon out of t